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)
Curtiss Carrier Pigeon II mail plane
Aviation Engr
Aviation Engineering ; 10 , n 2
1929
2 pages
2 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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