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Sport A2-60 Photo: Robert Deering 10/23/2006 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Chantilly, Virginia |
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Arrow Sport A2-60 The Arrow Sport A2-60 is a rare example of an alternative design, depression-era biplane. It complements the Smithsonian's Kreider-Reisner Challenger and Waco 9, conventional tandem open-cockpit biplanes. The Arrow Sport offered a side-by-side, dual-control cockpit arrangement. Its cantilever wings were attached only to the upper center section strut and lower fuselage-they had no other struts or external flying wires for bracing. However, enough pilots were uncomfortable without some sort of visible wing support that "N" struts later became standard. Equipped with 60- or 90-horsepower LeBlond engines, Arrow Sports made excellent trainers. About 100 were built through 1931, then more, at a slower pace, through the 1930s. This airplane had a succession of owners and even spent some time in England. |
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Arrow Aircraft Arrow Aircraft and Motor Corporation was a US aircraft manufacturer of the 1920s and 30s. It was founded in 1925 in Havelock, Nebraska as the Arrow Aircraft Corporation, and built a variety of light sporting aircraft. In 1928, truck body producer, Patriot Manufacturing Company of Havelock, Nebraska was purchased and merged into the new entity, Arrow Aircraft and Motors. In 1939, the company was bankrupt, a consequence of the effect of the Great Depression, and cost overruns. Products
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