Loving WR-1 Love
| WR-1 Love | |
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| The WR-1 on display | |
| Role | Racing aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Wayne Aircraft Company |
| Designer | Neil Loving |
| First flight | 7 August 1950[1] |
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The Loving/Wayne WR-1 Love is a single seat, midget racer built in the 1950s.[2]
Design and development
The WR-1 is a single place, gull-winged aircraft with conventional landing gear. The fuselage uses welded steel tube construction with aircraft fabric covering. The all-wood construction gull wing features faired fixed landing gear at the lowest point. The design was submitted and approved by the professional racing pilots association in 1948 with construction starting in January 1949.[3]
Operational history
In the 1951 National Air Races pilot Neal Loving qualified with a 266 mph (428 km/h) dive. The aircraft's spinner separated, damaging the propeller.[4]
In December 1953, Loving flew the WR-1 2200 miles from Detroit to Kingston, Jamaica, an unusually long trip for a new experimental design of the era.[5]
In 1954, the design was the winner of the Most Outstanding Design award at the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in at Rockford, Illinois.
Specifications (WR-1)
Data from EAA, Air Trails
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)
- Wingspan: 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Height: 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m)
- Wing area: 66 sq ft (6.1 m2)
- Empty weight: 613 lb (278 kg)
- Gross weight: 815 lb (370 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 15
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental C85 4-cyl. air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 85 hp (63 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed
Performance
- Maximum speed: 187 kn; 346 km/h (215 mph)
- Cruise speed: 135 kn; 249 km/h (155 mph)
- Stall speed: 50 kn; 93 km/h (58 mph)
- Service ceiling: 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
- Rate of climb: 2,100 ft/min (11 m/s)
References
- ↑ Betty Kaplan Gubert, Miriam Sawyer, Caroline M. Fannin. Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science. p. 202.
- ↑ Air Trails: 78. Winter 1971. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Loving/Wayne WR-1". Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ↑ Charlie Cooper, Ann Cooper. Tuskegee's Heroes. p. 33.
- ↑ Experimenter. June 1954. Missing or empty
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