Wright-Bellanca WB-1 explained
The Wright-Bellanca WB-1 was designed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca for the Wright Aeronautical corporation for use in record-breaking flights.[1]
Development
The WB-1 was a high-winged monoplane with conventional landing gear and all-wood construction. The landing gear fairings were constructed to extend into wheel pants.[2] [3]
Operational history
The WB-1 was demonstrated at the 1925 Pulitzer Prize Air Races in New York. In the first day's flights, the WB-1 clocked in 121.8 mph in a closed course race. On day two, the WB-1 won, in a payload versus hp and speed efficiency contest, beating a Curtiss Oriole and Sikorsky S-31. In 1926, pilot Fred Becker crashed the overloaded aircraft in a world-record endurance attempt. The aircraft cartwheeled and broke up on a landing attempt.[4] [5]
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Notes and References
- Book: Jackson . Joe . Atlantic fever : Lindbergh, his competitors, and the race to cross the Atlantic . 30 April 2013 . 978-1250033307 . 127 . Picador . First Picadorition . registration .
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- Book: Smyth . Ross . The Lindbergh of Canada : the Erroll Boyd story . 1 September 1997 . General Store Pub . 978-1896182612 . 63.
- Book: Gough . Michael . The Pulitzer air races : American aviation and speed supremacy, 1920-1925 . 3 May 2013 . McFarland & Company . 978-0786471003 . 175.
- Book: Spenser . Jay P. . Bellanca C.F. : the emergence of the cabin monoplane in the United States . 17 June 1982 . Published for the National Air and Space Museum by the Smithsonian Institution Press . 978-0874748819 . 45.
