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The American Eagle Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft design and manufacturing company which existed briefly in Kansas, but which was a victim of the Great Depression, after building some 500 light airplanes, many of which were the Model A-129, a design attributed to noted aviation pioneer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca .
Eagle was founded in 1977 by Dean Wilson, with the company's base being located at Boise, Idaho. Wilson designed the Eagle Aircraft Eagle agricultural biplane, which first flew in 1977, powered by a Jacobs R-755-B2 radial engine. [1] The aircraft was fitted with long-span tapering wings, which allowed a payload of 2,750 lb (1,247 kg) and a ...
Website. www .aa .com. American Eagle is a brand name for the regional branch of American Airlines, under which six individual regional airlines operate short- and medium-haul feeder flights. Three of these airlines, Envoy Air (formerly American Eagle Airlines), Piedmont Airlines, and PSA Airlines, are wholly owned subsidiaries of the American ...
The American Eagle Aircraft Corporation found that demand for their A-129 biplane and their other models was badly affected by the Wall Street stockmarket crash of late 1929 which ushered in the Great Depression. The small ultra-light, tandem two-seat Eaglet was therefore designed by company president, Edward E. Porterfield, to appeal to pilots ...
The American Eagle A-229 was a two seat trainer version with a Curtiss OX-5 engine. Specifications (100 h.p. Kinner K-5) American Eagle A-129 3-view drawing from Aero Digest June 1929. Data from Aero Digest June 1929. General characteristics. Crew: one; Capacity: two passengers; Length: 25 ft 1 in (7.65 m) Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in (9.14 m)
The Eagle is a single-seat agricultural biplane with tapered long-span wings, an enclosed single-seat cockpit and fixed tailwheel undercarriage. The prototype was fitted with a Jacobs R-755-B2 radial engine but later examples were fitted with other more modern powerplants. Production was sub-contracted to Bellanca Aircraft of Alexandria ...
Caine, Philip D. American Pilots in the RAF: The WWII Eagle Squadrons. Brassey's, 1993. ISBN 0-02-881070-8. Childers, James Saxon. War Eagles: The Story of the Eagle Squadron. Windmill Press, 1943. Republished by Eagle Publishing in 1983, ISBN 0-941624-71-4. Same as the 1943 edition, except it has an epilogue of the members as of 1982.
The American A-1 and A-101 were American two and three-seat biplanes of the 1920s. Design and development [ edit ] The American Eagle A-1 was designed in late 1925 as a training aircraft to replace the World War I biplanes then in use by the Porterfield Flying School.