From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
The Northrop Corporation, Inglewood, California
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NORTHROP Delta 1-D
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NORTHROP Gamma 2-D
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
The Northrop Corporation, Inglewood, California
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Fairchild Model XC-31 Cargo Transport
The Fairchild XC-31 was an experimental cargo aircraft built for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Note the retractable landing gear on this large, strut-braced monoplane. Fairchild XC-31 (Kreider-Reisner): The large XC-31, built by the Kreider-Reisner division of Fairchild aircraft was used, in part, for icing studies while with the NACA at Langley. This is the only example of the type ever built. Photo dated: 10/10/1938, from NASA Langley Research Center – Multimedia Repository. Continue reading
Douglas DC-2
The Douglas DC-2 was a 14 seat, twin-engine airliner produced by Douglas Aircraft Corporation. Designed to meet TWA requirements for a new airliner, the DC-1 (which evolved into the DC-2) made its first flight in 1933. Inspired by the success of the DC-1, the DC-2 was introduced less than a year after the DC-1′s first flight. The new plane closely resembled the DC-1 but had more powerful engines, was faster and capable of longer flights, was two feet longer, and could carry two more passengers. TWA ordered Twenty-five DC-2′s in 1934, with more procured by the U.S. Navy (as the R2D-1) and Army Air Corps. Continue reading
Curtiss-Wright Condor Day Plane
An unusual biplane airliner, capable of carrying 18 passengers.
photo probably taken at East Boston airport, c. 1936
Curtiss-Wright Condor, NC12396
On the Curtiss-Wright Condor aircraft (which had no galleys) American Airlines (Airways) hostesses served their eighteen passengers coffee, tea, Coca-Cola, biscuits and coffeecake from a picnic hamper. Continue reading
Curtiss-Wright Condor Cargo Carrier CT-32
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, Robertson, Missouri
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Beechcraft A17F
from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
The Beech Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, Kansas
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Bellanca Bimotored Transport
from April, 1935 Aero Digest:
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Bellanca Aircruiser
The Aircruiser was commissioned in 1928, by Italian WW I ace, Caesare Sabelli, who wanted a plane that could fly non-stop from New York to Rome. Giuseppe Bellanca’s original design, the Model K , never made the flight, but the design survived. The distinctive “W” silhouette of the plane is derived from the aerodynamic lifting struts extending down from underneath the fuselage to stubby lower wings. Continue reading
Vultee V-1A
from the April, 1935 Aero Digest:
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