Dayton-Wright RB-1 Racer
RB-1 Racer | |
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Role | Racing aircraft |
Manufacturer | Dayton-Wright
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Designer | Howard Max Rinehart, Milton C. Baumann, Charles Hampson Grant[1] |
First flight | 1920 |
Number built | 1 |
Variants | Dayton-Wright XPS-1 |
The Dayton-Wright RB-1 (Rinehart[note 1] Baumann[note 2] model one), also known simply as the Dayton-Wright Racer was a high wing single-engine monoplane racing aircraft developed in the United States to participate in the 1920 Gordon Bennett Cup air race.
Design and development
The RB-1 was a high-wing monoplane with a
Operational history
Dismantled and shipped to France, the RB-1 was flown by Howard Rinehart in the 28 September 1920 race, but was forced to withdraw after a cable failure prevented retraction of the gear/flap mechanism,
Variants
- Dayton-Wright XPS-1 - A 1921 Pursuit aircraft using the RB landing gear design.
Specifications
Data from 1921 Aircraft Yearbook
General characteristics
- Crew: One pilot
- Length: 22 ft 8 in (6.91 m)
- Wingspan: 21 ft 2 in (6.45 m)
- Wing area: 102.74 sq ft (9.545 m2)
- Empty weight: 1,400 lb (635 kg)
- Gross weight: 1,850 lb (839 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × L-6a, 250 hp (190 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 190 mph (310 km/h, 170 kn)
- Range: 275 mi (443 km, 239 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 15,000 ft (4,600 m)
See also
- 1920 in aviation (first flight)
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Related lists
References
Notes
- ^ Howard Max Rinehart, flight instructor and later, aeronautical engineer.
- ^ Milton C. Baumann, a US Army officer who was an aeronautical engineer during WW1.
Citations
- ^ "Biography of Charles Hampson Grant" (PDF). Academy of Model Aeronautics. 2017.
- ^ King, H. F. (11 December 1953). "The First Fifty Years". Flight. Vol. 64, no. 2342. p. 762. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Wegg 1990, p.30.
- ^ a b Eberspacher, Warren (April 2000). "The Dayton-Wright RB-Racer". Skyways.
- ^ "The Dayton-Wright monoplane". Flight. 12 (615): 1058. 7 October 1920.
- ^ Margoulis, W. (April 1921). "The Gordon Bennett Aeroplane Cup, 1920". National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Technical Note. 50. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: 2–4.
Bibliography
- Wegg, John (1990). General Dynamics Aircraft and their Predecessors. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-833-X.
- O'Leary, Michael (November 2003). "Dayton-Wright RB-1". Air Classics.
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 305.