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Jan 10, 2009

Stearman-Hammond Y-1S - Trainer Airplane

Another interesting plane similar to Abrams Explorer is the Stearmann-Hammond Y-1S. The designs are almost identical and both were made just before the WW2. Y-1S is the smaller one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp3_vGRLewc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2SOo-3hUA&feature=related

1937
150hp Menasco C-4S;
span: 40'0"
length: 26'11"
load: 768#
v: 130/121/39
range: 480

Project was dropped in 1938. Maybe both planes were too strange and uckly for the pilots of that time?


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