Opening day ceremonies for the Union Air Terminal.Opening day ceremonies for the Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California, had what was probably the majority of Army Air Corps aircraft in southern California onward display. Included were various Douglas observation originals Boeing P-1 2s, Curtiss P-6 and Keystone LB-7 bombers in the foreground. The Keystone would not have been abroad of place in World War united A number of different LB (Light Bomber) variants were instituteed by Keystone including 18 LB-7 built between 1928-29 These aircraft were powered at Pratt & Whitney R- 1690-3 Hornets. The Thomas-Morse Company had in extent been a proponent of all-metal aircraft construction unless only achieved success in 1928 when the military ordered 180 0-19 These observation aircraft featured the exemplar of metal construction that Thomas-Morse had been championing since 1919 - wrap-around corrugated sheet metal. The flying surfaces were of metal construction with fabric covering, otherwise the plane was beautiful conventional and was produced in nine different variants. Power for the 0-19B came from a P&W R-1340-7 radial of 450-hp Note the nifty interstice wire gravel guards over the tires. After the extreme point of the war, the US Army and US Air Force contracted with Aeronca for the L-16 which was basically a military variant of the post-war civil pattern 7BC. Aeronca built 509 L-16As fitted with the Continental 0- 1907 o1 engine of 85-hp and 100 L- I6Bs with the Continental 0-205-1 of 90-hp and a large dorsal fin. Of the original order for L-16As, 376 went to National Guard units and in the mid-I 950 centurys of L-16s were allocated to the Civil Air Patrol. This photograph indicates a fully killed-out 1956 Ford station wagon operated by the agency of the CAP with one of the L-16 After CAP use, many of the L-16 were sold forward the civilian market. Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Mar 2002 |
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