• Source: Swallow New Swallow

The swallow" target="_blank">Swallow New swallow" target="_blank">Swallow, also known as the swallow" target="_blank">Swallow Commercial Three-Seater is an American-built general purpose biplane of the mid- to late 1920s. The New swallow" target="_blank">Swallow name was to distinguish it from the aircraft from which it was derived, the Laird swallow" target="_blank">Swallow.




Development


The swallow" target="_blank">Swallow Airplane Manufacturing Co was formed in 1923 to take over the business of the E.M. Laird Aviation Co. of Wichita, Kansas and set up its factory there. In 1924, the New swallow" target="_blank">Swallow three-seat biplane was introduced, which differed from the earlier Laird-swallow" target="_blank">Swallow in having a cowled engine, split axle undercarriage and single-bay wings. About 50 examples were produced until the design was enhanced in 1926. The initial price was $3,500 reducing to $2,485 in late 1926.
After 1926, production shifted to the redesigned, steel-framed Super swallow" target="_blank">Swallow.




Operational history


The three-seat swallow" target="_blank">Swallow found ready use in the hands of small commercial firms and with the newly founded regional airlines.


When the Air Mail Act of 1925 came into force, Walter Varney tendered for route CAM 5, which connected Pasco, Washington with Elko, Nevada via Boise, Idaho, crossing the Cascade Mountains. He won the tender unopposed, and ordered six New Swallows to service the route. These aircraft, sometimes known as the swallow" target="_blank">Swallow Mailplane differed from the current production version by being equipped with a 160-hp (119-kW) Curtiss C-6 water-cooled, inline engine. Their wingspan was extended by four feet (1.2 metres) and the passenger cockpit was enclosed to create a hold for mail. The first flight took off from Pasco on April 6, 1926. Pilot Leon Cuddeback transported 9,285 pieces of mail, weighing 207 pounds (93.9 kg), plus bottles of grape juice intended for President Calvin Coolidge. Cuddeback also completed the return trip successfully, but the following week, on the second flight out of Pasco, was forced down in the desert. The Curtiss engines proved unsuitable for the hot-and-high conditions, and Varney ordered replacement air-cooled 208-hp (155-kW) Wright J-4s instead. After 60 days grounded, the re-engined Swallows returned to service.
Three Swallows participated in the 1925 Ford Air Tour, piloted by Earl Roland, John Stauffer, and Jacob Moellendick.




Variants


Source : Aerofiles

New swallow" target="_blank">Swallow
90 h.p. Curtiss OX-5, about 50 built 1924-1926
swallow" target="_blank">Swallow Mailplane
also known as the J4 swallow" target="_blank">Swallow; six New Swallows ordered for Varney Air Lines with Curtiss C-6 engines, re-engined with Wright J-4s




Specifications (New swallow" target="_blank">Swallow)


Data from Juptner 1966, p.68General characteristics
Crew: 1
Capacity: 2 passengers
Length: 23 ft 10 in (7.26 m)
Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
Height: 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
Wing area: 300 sq ft (28 m2)
Empty weight: 1,447 lb (656 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Curtiss OX-5 piston, 90 hp (67 kW)
Performance

Maximum speed: 100 mph (160 km/h, 87 kn)
Cruise speed: 85 mph (137 km/h, 74 kn)
Range: 450 mi (720 km, 390 nmi)
Rate of climb: 500 ft/min (2.5 m/s)




See also






= Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

=
(partial listing, only covers most numerous types)

Alexander Eaglerock
American Eagle A-101
Brunner-Winkle Bird
Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster
Command-Aire 3C3
Parks P-1
Pitcairn Mailwing
Spartan C3
Stearman C2 and C3
Travel Air 2000 and 4000
Waco 10




= Related lists

=
List of aircraft
List of civil aircraft




Notes






References






= Bibliography

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Aerofiles: Specifications and images of Swallows
Bowers, Peter M. (March 1976). "The Start of Commercial Air Mail". The AOPA Pilot. AOPA.
Bowers, Peter M. (February 1980). "Lincoln and Lincoln-Page". The AOPA Pilot. AOPA.
Juptner, Joseph P. (1962). U.S. Civil Aircraft, Vol. 1 (ATC 1 - ATC 100). Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers.
"swallow" target="_blank">Swallow Commercial". The Museum of Flight. The Museum of Flight. Retrieved May 25, 2024.
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions.

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