Written by Ernie Heyworth.
A Golden Age classic turns out to be a natural for electric power.
Featured in the Model Aviation October 2006.This airplane was developed during 1929 and the early 1930s, during the Great Depression; luxury airplanes weren’t selling then. At the Buffalo, New York, plant design center, Glenn Curtiss and Walter Beech (of the later Beech Aircraft Corporation) decided to build a light, inexpensive airplane. It was to be constructed at the Saint Louis, Missouri, plant, which needed work or faced shutdown. Curtiss and Beech wanted an airplane that would weigh…
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