Bellanca TES explained

The Bellanca TES (Tandem Experimental Sesquiplane) or Blue Streak was a push-pull sesquiplane aircraft designed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca in 1929 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo.^[1]

In 1930 it was refitted with two 600 hp Curtiss Conqueror engines and reinforced for the Chicago Daily News as a cargo plane named The Blue Streak.The aircraft crashed on 26 May, 1931 when the rear propeller driveshaft broke due to vibration and all four on board lost their lives.

References

Bibliography

• Alan Abel and Drina Welch Abel: Bellanca's Golden Age, Stockton : Wild Canyon Books, 2004,

External links

• Page dedicated to Shirley J. Short
• Bellanca TES images from the archive of San Diego Air & Space Museum

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20101027221244/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732337,00.html Bellanca's Secret, Time, 1929-05-06