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California Coupe
The California Coupe, also called the Royer & Montijo California Coupe, was an early cabin biplane built in California. It was built in part using parts from a crashed Dayton-Wright OW.1, the last aircraft designed by one of the Wright Brothers. The California Coupe flew in early 1924, but the next year it was damaged in a failed stunt on a movie set. Montijo and Royer were not recompensed, so the company folded and the designed was not developed further. Design and development In 1923 John G. Montijo collaborated with Lloyd Royer on a four-passenger aircraft, the California Coupe, that would become the first cabin biplane on the United States west coast. Montijo's design closely matched the Dayton-Wright OW.1 Aerial Coupe that he had recently purchased from the Rinehart-Whelan Company in Ohio. The OW.1 had crashed in an air race in 1924, and Montijo purchased the wreck and used parts from it in the new design. The new aircraft was originally ordered on request of wealthy Dodge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Aircraft
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within Wikimedia project, sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by ''Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Kinner
Winfield Bertrum "Bert" Kinner (December 16, 1882 – July 4, 1957) was an American aircraft engine designer and designer of the first folding wing aircraft. Kinner founded Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation in Glendale, California, which produced radial engines and aircraft. Early life Bert Kinner was born on December 16, 1882, in Benton County, Iowa. His father was from New York. His mother was born in England and her maiden name was Lee. Career Kinner worked, as a streetcar operator, in Denver before going to Minnesota, there working as a barber, taxi service operator, and car dealer. Aviation career On May 25, 1915, pioneer pilot and aviation designer, Otto Timm crashed in a field in Magnolia, Minnesota, owned by Kinner. His aircraft's Anzani engine was repaired by Kinner, who was fascinated by the aircraft. Later that year, he and his family went to California, where Kinner opened a business as an automobile coachbuilder. In 1918, Kinner served in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren & Montijo Monoplane
The Mason Greater Meteor also called the Warren & Montijo Monoplane, the Glenmont Landau Sedan, the Belmont Cabin Monoplane M-1, the Mason Meteor M, the Mason Greater Meteor M-200 and the Pride of Hollywood was the first aircraft built by California Polytechnic College students. Design and development First built by Cal Poly students, the aircraft was registered under many names. On 17 March, the aircraft was christened with grape juice as the "Glenmont". In April 1928 aircraft was first registered as the Warren & Montijo Monoplane. The aircraft was painted silver with a winged logo on either side that featured a ''W''(Warren) and a ''M'' (Montijo) with ''Landau Sedan'' written below it. In August 1928 the aircraft was sold as a ''Glenmont Landau Sedan'' and renamed shortly afterward as the ''Belmont Cabin Monoplane M-1'' By 1933 the aircraft was registered as the ''Mason Meteor M and ''Mason Greater Meteor M-200''. The aircraft was constructed with a welded steel tube fuselage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan M-1
The Ryan M-1 was a mail plane produced in the United States in the 1920s, the first original design built by Ryan Aeronautical, Ryan.Taylor 1989, p. 774. It was a conventional gear parasol-wing monoplane with two open cockpits in tandem and fixed, tailskid undercarriage."Ryan M-1" Design and development The follow-on M-2 was substantially the same as the M-1. The prototype M-1 was originally powered by a Hispano-Suiza 8A, but production examples featured a variety of engines in the same general power range, with the Wright J-4B chosen for nine of the sixteen M-1s built, and the prototype later refitted with this engine.''Museum of Flight News'' According to Cassagneres, "Dimensions allowed for a front cockpit that could accommodate two passengers side by side, or one passenger and a sack of mail, or just mail sacks and no passenger. Dual controls were provided, so a passenger flying up front could get in some 'stick time' if he wished. The M-1 cowling had a feature that was to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse And Royer Cruisair
Waterhouse may refer to: Places * Waterhouse, Tasmania, a locality in Australia * Waterhouse Island (other) * Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica ** Waterhouse F.C., a football club based in the Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica * Waterhouse Museum in New Jersey Other uses * Waterhouse (surname), including a list of people with such name * Waterhouse Company, a coachbuilder located in Webster, Massachusetts * Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, an annual prize awarded by the South Australian Museum See also * Little Waterhouse Lake, Tasmania, Australia * PricewaterhouseCoopers, an international professional services firm * TD Waterhouse, a Canadian financial services corporation * Waterhouse's swamp rat, a rodent species from South America * Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat, a species of bat from Central America * Waterhouses (other) Waterhouses may refer to: * Waterhouses, County Durham ** Waterhouses (County Durham) railway station * Waterhouses, St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart ( ; July 24, 1897 – January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. During her life, Earhart embraced celebrity culture and women's rights, and since her disappearance has become a global cultural figure. She was the first female pilot to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean and set many other records. She was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of Ninety-Nines, The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart was born and raised in Atchison, Kansas, and developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, she became a celebrity after becoming the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane. In 1932, she became th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partners Again
''Partners Again'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film that was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, and directed by Henry King. This ethnic Jewish humor film is based on the 1922 Broadway play ''Partners Again'' starring Alex Carr and Barney Bernard, which reprises their characters from the very successful 1913 Broadway play ''Potash and Perlmutter'' (which had 441 performances from 1913 to 1915). Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of ''Potash and Perlmutter'', and a 1924 sequel called '' In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter''. In ''Partners Again'' the two are in the automobile industry. As with the 1924 film, ''In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter'', George Sidney George Sidney (October 4, 1916May 5, 2002) was an American film director and producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His work includes cult classics '' Bye Bye Birdie'' (1963) and '' Viva Las Vegas'' (1964). With an extensive back ... plays Potash, taking u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wright-Hisso
The Hispano-Suiza 8 is a water-cooled V8 SOHC aero engine introduced by Hispano-Suiza in 1914 that went on to become the most commonly used liquid-cooled engine in the aircraft of the Entente Powers during the First World War. The original Hispano-Suiza 8A was rated at and the later, larger displacement Hispano-Suiza 8F reached . Hispano-Suiza 8 engines and variants produced by Hispano-Suiza and other companies under licence were built in twenty-one factories in Spain, France, Britain, Italy, and the U.S. Derivatives of the engine were also used abroad to power numerous aircraft types and the engine can be considered as the ancestor of another successful engine by the same designer, the Hispano-Suiza 12Y (and Soviet Klimov V12 derivative aero-engines) which was in service during the Second World War. Design and development Origins At the beginning of World War I, the production lines of the Barcelona based Hispano-Suiza automobile and engine company were switched to the prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
