WRNY: STATION elem ee and . Invertion BUILD YOUR ‘OWN AIRPLANE See Page 242 Pee lg Sek Ee Cota ati ye of st 2How to Build Your Own Airplane Science and Invention for July, 1926 “This Handsome Single Passenger Sport Plane of Proven Performance Has a Ceiling of 7,000 feet and a Speed * Sip Miles Per Hour with 30 HP Engine, Seger a —— Tis with grea pleasure that Weintroduce herewith t0 the eat tot of all sports fay, that of fying. Thanks to the grea’ advances tale in the designing ad bing of easily constructed, aiterati, Young America doubtless will soon be winging is. Way_ over the onntryside, There are sctent Ayng Ais in most Featons, So that 1 desired the fran who builds “oF Tvs such a plane 35 the one decried Here, tan take fying Tessons fav thus obtain a fst ind komad of the Sec of the aie” By ractsing “with the Bitte amd tanyiog over the field, allowing ee pane ty rem short distance and then Tsdtae asain, tying knowledge canbe ob ined at frat hands We recommend, how Get dia whenever possible, the serves of $Gimpeteat pilot be obtained in order that ie Gimpect the machine before any flehts dre fae tose iat is sft ton incall of its parts, especially if the craft fnome fui. ‘Afso fe will give you all the pikiers you should how before ever trying Pele fom the gtound. ‘is ialudes such iistrcton ag always starting off or anding iio the wind, We have not the space here Saves a course in fing andthe people ho spoteon tt anor pate ad he iy all the parts, enaines, propellers, a, el BY fhe comulete plane, Feady to Hy itso desired, aso. formish at $500 2, practical ome dixdy courte i aeronautics. The, com Tete blueprints, a8 furnished by the bude Tie ok tis famous sport plane, cost, $15.00, Sou ‘orders wil be filed bythe publishers GPs magazine without any extra charge Shove the prices quoted above ENGINE AND SPEED DATA ‘This fe sport plane is of very Beautiful tiges and has ated speed oF one hundred Tiles per hour is. usial maximum speed Being feed at 90 [Link], with a erasing tyeed of 78 MPH. is landing spend cba. wich s quite safe, all these Speeds bing ghtained with the Anzani three: Minder 30°95 TEP, engine. ‘This engine will Chet several hundced dollars, but its one ‘rest aes for iterate that fs 203 ‘lays, AL cheaper engine # the Tavw~ ree, 8 HL P.,tworeylnder type, a0 this Wile gropetier is worth $85.0." Quite a Tretitable performance can be obtained wich Gu Spam lane fein common motor gy ei. Phere are nme of es Ent Seplane motors on the market, and 0 Glatse thee could be Atted without a er Si Sr'itouble To tose ioterested fn pa insing the ‘complete plane with Anzani “Te spor lane fined and ready ty. tnotor, it may be seid that the price is about $150000, aud ifthe Lawrence 28 HP. woweslinder engine is substituted, the plane realy to, fly wil cost $120000, while the lane built complete without any engine but With mosnting for engine, costs $895.00 "This Tittle sport plane is very economical, and will fy thirty-five miles per gallon of gasoline wed, ‘The Aying range of this Spore plane is 250 miles with one loading of and it ean ela at the rate of 800 ff per minute, eis fateresting t0 note that the Aesigners have figured on a factor of safety tHroustout of eleven, fe, each part of the plane, when property constructed and assem= Pied, is eleven times stronger than necessary to sland the given Toad and strain. It will be seen by inspecting the drawings Ihecewith that the span of the plane fs 20 ft, ‘ite means that Tecan be stored in'a. very Small Itngas.. The wings are covered with grade A Tinen, of airplane cloth: which Should receive five coats of nitrate dope, and they are then finished. with two coats of Valspar. varnish, There are a. sumber of ‘available in public hibraries or from publishers which contain information on how (> cover the wings and apply the nlteate dope, bat the eyerse mentioned above is strongly recommended if you have fad no experience in building aircraft before. In the pest ine stallmet, epecial drawings made by aur own Grafteman, will show just how to boil the Swings angl cover them with the Tinen cloth This an interesting process, this covering of the wings, and the method of sewing. the loit to the ribs wll he shovwn in the for coming drawings in the August number. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION f many new features infused in this Titfe eraft and hy the removal of sever bolts the plane may be dismantled and ready for erating or storage in fess than 30. min ‘The entire tail unit is of welded stock tion. “The. stabilizer Symmetrical camber and. detachable the rudder and the fin fare buat into the f0se- fage; so that there isa small fin exposed om the underside to whieh jg, attached. the. wil hid, this alo being of Stee! and resting on the usual ‘shock. ab- other coed The undercarriage fs of. steel tube cor striction with through axle, The struts are Streamlined with, bass Wood 20°" wheels are used, Width of ane fs 44 ft. Wings Ate webs of the ribs ave hss wood with the eal Fghtenig holes, while the capsteips are Of spruce, Spars are of the touted Iebeam sec~ tious, alsa of spruce and spliced in the een tee so, that they form continaous spars through the whole span of the wing, with a ihedral of 4 degrees. ach plane is built ia one continuous panel from tip to tp. ‘The upper plane has a cit way at the center over. the cockpit, and is fastened to the center Nestruts with four alts The lower. plane, which i a. sil pane, is fastened to the wnderside of fuse- Tage with three bolts. ‘The ailerons are on the lower plane ony, and the aileron control Wires run Within the lower wing. ‘The single Tstrats on each side of the interpfane brace jing are of built-up. spruce tamination Tanding wires are single, flying wires are double, all are. 4/32 inch cable.» Fuselage— ‘The fuselage fs of the girder type built of spruce, the longerons being of ash forward GFeockpit. ‘The cockpit Tas, plenty, of les The fend of the fuselage tape Eontal wedge, the whole being nicely streant- fined with fuss wood false work. The cowl- ng i of 20 gauge aluminam, DIMENSIONS. Span both wings, 20 ft Chord both wings, 34 is Gap between wings, 40 in Stagger, 15 in Tensth over all, 16 ft Height over all, 5 ft, 7 in wines, Wing carve, U. S, A. 27 ‘Total wing area, 108 5. ft Angle ‘of incitence, top wing, 196 deg ‘Angle of incidenes, botiom wing, 0 deg Decalage, 1% de. ‘Dihedeal both ings, 4 dew Stabitizer area, 79% sft. evator area, 534 st. fh Bin area, $ ot. ft Rrlder aeray 3 sa, ft on agen exch 6 39. ft (Coniiaued on page 270)Science and Invention for July, 1926 243 Construction Details of Sport Plane aru ioe, Soe AOR OE RE SE ne con, H eae a Se on cova aete To ILERONS soe 10D OF SPLICING SPARS_AT CENTER, ‘Sipe piri JOIN ANS CLUE sae eae [Link] TO STAB CABLE Peawiao Toad] | | fe | eae Fsoxce08 PLAN VIEW ASSEMBLY fs on ‘OF PLANE ~ sae oe ee TF Reser nnisico, proveter SCALE, IV FEET oF ee Fe ene See a Me i draning stove hows Inconel Gio and fot ewe of meded hy te company who arly the prt of hs lane en who do To sare cee te inating snide ‘Biesreo mile homes hte dow hinder eagioe i ac oe he ang Basender SCT in Seat ater of commercial spar plaae, prefered sr one ofthe prominent World War fers exained tothe tors ‘We age ery fay fo wrens eee accesfuly bull and Bown, to tke ipa recent interview. ‘The contra etuce, of tis port lane are. wr PaEL. 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