Model Plane Hoists Wheels to Take Off from Water
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Built from photographs of a Fleetwing L-5 amphibian, a scale model plane exhibited in a meet at Yakima, Wash., has landing gear constructed so that its wheels can be raised above the water line of the hull in a few seconds for launching from a pond or lake. , one-fifth horsepower gasoline engine is mounted above the cabin with spring-steel rods. The model weighs five pounds and one ounce ready for flight and has a main wing area of seven square feet. It was designed on a scale of two inches to the foot. The fuselage is full planked one-eighth inch balsa wood; the motor cowling is aluminum. Remote controls permit motor adjustments without removal of the cowling.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Model Plane Hoists Wheels to Take Off from Water
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Model Plane Hoists Wheels to Take Off from Water
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-09
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 3, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 370
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
