Rearwin Junior
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Role | Sport aircraft |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Rearwin |
Designer | Noel Hockaday and Douglas Webber |
First flight | 1931 |
Number built | ca 30 |
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The Rearwin Junior was a sport aircraft produced in the United States in the early 1930s.[1][2] It was a conventional, parasol-wing monoplane with two seats in tandem in an open cockpit and fixed, tailskid undercarriage.[2] An optional enclosed canopy was available.[3] The wings were of wooden construction while the fuselage and empennage were built from welded steel tube, with the whole aircraft skinned in fabric.[3]
Although designed to meet the lowest possible sale price, the onset of the Great Depression severely limited the size of the market for sport aircraft, and only a small number were built.[2]
Variants
- Junior 3000 - version with Szekely SR-3 engine (ca. 20 built)
- Junior 3001 - version with Poyer engine (1 built, later converted to 4000)
- Junior 3100 - version with Szekely SR-5 engine (2 built)
- Junior 4000 - version with Aeromarine AR-3 engine (8 built)
Specifications (3000)
Data from "Rearwin Junior"
General characteristics
- Crew: One pilot
- Capacity: 1 passenger
- Length: 21 ft 11 in (6.68 m)
- Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m)
- Height: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
- Wing area: 180 ft2 (16.7 m2)
- Empty weight: 570 lb (260 kg)
- Gross weight: 1,000 lb (450 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Szekely SR-3, 45 hp (30 kW)
Performance
References
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- Notes
- Bibliography
- Aero Digest. April 1935. Missing or empty
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(help) - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft. London: Aerospace Publishing.
- "Rearwin Junior". Rearwin Airplanes (cached by Google). Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions.
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