Description of new Carrier Pigeon Model II air mail biplane; pay load of 2000 lb. carried at top speed of 151 m.p.h. in flight tests; 12-cylinder 600-hp. Conqueror engine; landing lights made retractable; tail wheel and strut enclosed in sheet-metal fairing; to facilitate replacement of fuselage parts it is constructed in three sections, built separately and bolted together; monocoque construction applied to roomy mail compartment; wing span 47 ft. 6 in. (See also Airway Age vol. 10, no. 10, Oct, 1929 p. 1666, 1 fig; West. Flying, vol. 6, no. 4, Oct. 1929, p. 62, 1 fig. and Aero Digest, vol. 15, no. 5, Nov. 1929, p. 154, 1 fig)


    Zugriff

    Zugriff über TIB

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Curtiss Carrier Pigeon II mail plane


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Aviation Engr


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1929


    Format / Umfang :

    2 pages


    Anmerkungen:

    2 Figs.


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Curtiss carrier Pigeon II mail plane

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1929


    Curtiss carrier Pigeon II mail plane

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1929


    The Curtiss "Carrier Pigeon"

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1925


    The Curtiss "Carrier Pigeon"

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1925


    The Curtiss carrier pigeon and lark

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1926