The Aero-Flight Streak was an American two-seat

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built in

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by Aero-Flight Aircraft Corporation at

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. Advanced for its time, it was of all-metal construction with tricycle undercarriage, and accommodated the pilot and passenger in tandem beneath a sliding,

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. Initially flown powered by a Continental C85, successively more powerful

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were fitted in an attempt to arouse interest in the marketplace. Due to the saturation of the light aircraft market in the years immediately following

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, no production ensued and the project was dead by

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

Variants

;AFA-1 Streak-85:Powered by Continental C85-12J.Bridgman 1948, p. 212c. ;AFA-2 Streak-125:Powered by

Continental C125 The Continental C115, C125 and C140 aircraft engines were manufactured by Teledyne Continental Motors, Continental Motors in the 1940s, all sharing the US military designation O-280. These engines feature a flat-6 configuration and produce 115&n ...

. ;AFA-3 Streak-165:Powered by Franklin 6A4 ;AFA-4 Streak-225:Powered by a 225 hp Continental engine

Specifications (AFA-3)

References

Bibliography

* * * Taylor, J. H. (ed) (1989) ''Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation''. Studio Editions: London. p. 28
Aerofiles

External links

* * {{cite magazine, magazine=Popular Science, author=Bonnier Corporation, title=Streak Speeds Up, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96, date=December 1947, publisher=Bonnier Corporation, page=96 Streak Single-engined tractor aircraft 1940s United States civil utility aircraft Low-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1946