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The Pasped W-1 Skylark is a 1930s
American
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two-seat single-engined cabin
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
designed and built by the
Pasped Aircraft Company of Glendale, California.
Design and development
The Skylark is a braced low-wing monoplane with a fixed
tailwheel landing gear
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It is powered by a
Warner Scarab
The Warner Scarab is an American seven-cylinder radial engine, radial aircraft engine, that was manufactured by the Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan in 1928 through to the early 1940s. In military service the engine was designate ...
radial engine.
The enclosed cockpit has side-by-side seating for two.
It has a welded steel fuselage and wooden wings.
With other two-seat aircraft of the era having a better performance on smaller engines the Skylark did not enter production.
The sole example was currently airworthy in February 2010 with an owner in
Versailles, Missouri
Versailles ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,539 at the 2020 census.
History
A post office called Versailles, after the royal palace in France, has been in operation since 1835 ...
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Specifications
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