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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 Aircraft Corporation was started in 1925 in Kansas City, Kansas by Edward E. Porterfield. It was incorporated in Delaware in September 1928. [1] [2] Porterfield was running a flying school at the Fairfax Airport outside Kansas City. He had been operating Jennies and Lincoln Standard biplane trainers, and felt the need for a ...
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.
The Christen Eagle, which later became the Aviat Eagle in the mid-1990s, is an aerobatic sporting biplane aircraft that has been produced in the United States since the late 1970s. Design [ edit ] Designed to compete with the Pitts Special by Frank Christensen originally of Salt Lake City, Utah, [1] the Eagle II is marketed in kit form for ...
This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number). The list includes aircraft that are notable either as an individual aircraft or have been involved in a notable accident or incident or are linked to a person notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article.
First flight. 19 November 1975. The AmEagle American Eaglet was a highly unorthodox ultralight sailplane marketed in the U.S. for homebuilding. It was a one-seat, high-wing braced monoplane that carried an inverted V-tail on a long boom extending from a pod-like fuselage. Intended for self-launching, it was equipped with a McCulloch go-kart ...
Key people. William R. Howard ( CEO) Founder. Thomas Henry Davis. Piedmont Airlines was a local service carrier, a scheduled carrier in the United States that operated from 1948 until it merged with USAir in 1989. Its headquarters were at One Piedmont Plaza in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a building that is now part of Wake Forest University.
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)