Czechoslovakian Civil Aircraft 1930-1939 - Czechoslovakian Airliners 1930-1939, Czechoslovakian Sport Aircraft 1930-1939, Praga E-210, Avia 51 (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Czechoslovakian Airliners 1930-1939, Czechoslovakian Sport Aircraft 1930-1939, Praga E-210, Avia 51, Praga E.114, Avia 156, Letov -32, Avia 57, Letov -39, Bene-Mrz Be-50 Beta-Minor, Bene-Mrz Bibi, Aero A.200, Praga Bh-111, Bene-Mrz Beta-Scolar, Aero A.204. Excerpt: The Praga E-210 was a four seat, twin engined touring aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. It had an unusual pusher configuration . Its tail unit and undercarriage were modified significantly before World War II and after the war a more powerful version designated E-211 was flown. The Praga E-210 was designed as a four seat tourer or air-taxi. It seems to have appeared in public for the first time at the Paris Exhibition of late 1936, though it is not known whether it had made its first flight by then. It was a high wing cantilever monoplane, with an enclosed cabin for four ahead of the wing and in 1936 a conventional tailwheel fixed undercarriage and single fin. It was unusual in adopting a pusher configuration, with two engines close to the fuselage driving small propellers. Its layout was thus much like that of the Carden-Baynes Bee, its almost exact contemporary though a much smaller aircraft. The wing of the E-210 was made in a single piece, a wooden structure built around two spars and plywood covered. The leading edge was significantly swept, but the trailing edge was straight. The ailerons were steel framed and fabric covered. Between them and the engines were Schrenk type landing flaps. The 85/95 hp (63/71 kW) Walter Minor four cylinder inverted in line engines were cantilevered from the rear spar on steel frames, with fairings both above and below the wings. The flat sided fuselage was built on a steel tube framework, narrowing to the rear. The r... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25643271