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A Ireland N-2C Neptune flying boat at Roosevelt Field, in New York, on September 22, 1929. |
An Ireland NC-2B Neptune flying boats. |
An Ireland NC-2B Neptune flying boats. |
Built by Elwood J. Junkin and Clayton J. Brukner, in 1919, the Model 1 flying boat, with a 15 horse-power engine, was an unsuccessful design, as it was unable to become airborne during a test flight from Lake Eire. Junkin and Brukner later joined with George E. Weaver to form the Weaver Aeroplane Company, which developed into the Waco airplane company, in 1928. |
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The 1925 experimental Keystone-Loening XO-10 seaplane, in United States Army service. |
These photos shows a Loening C-2C Air Yacht seaplane in Thompson Aeronautical Corporation service, around June 1929. TAC, which was based in Cleveland, Ohio, operated Contract Air Mail Route 27, which was inaugurated on July 17, 1928. It flew this Air Yacht between Cleveland and Detroit, which was a 55-minute flight, when CAM Route 27 was extended, on May 14, 1929. The inaugural flight from Detroit was flown by Amelia Earhart and Ralph R. DeVore, and the return flight was flown the next day, by Cyril C. Caldwell, a former Royal Air Force flyer, who would later have to make an emergency landing, on Lake Erie, that wrecked a TAC Air Yacht, in August 1929. The Air Yacht could carry two crew members, six passengers, and 500 pounds of cargo on each flight. TAC also operated passenger routes, using Stinson Detroiter monoplanes, between Bay City and Chicago, Muskegon and Chicago, and Pontiac and Chicago, with stops in between. It later became Transamerican Airlines and, in 1933, it was bought by American Airways. |
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LOENING
C-2-C AIR YACHT
TRANSAMERICAN
AIRLINES - TAC
The experimental Loening XS2L-1 seaplane, in United States Navy service. |
A 1926 Martin T3M-1 seaplane in United States Navy service. 24 of these aircraft were produced and they had serial numbers from A7065 to A7088. |
A Martinsyde Type A Mk II seaplane. Only four of these seaplanes were produced in the United Kingdom, after World War I, and one of them became the first airplane that was acquired by the Irish Air Corps, when it was formed in 1922. |
MARTINSYDE
F.6
PAST
AIR CORPS AIRCRAFT
HISTORICAL
AIRCRAFT: MARTINSYDE F6