Burgess H
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 Burgess H seaplane, US Navy, 1913 |
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1912 |
The Burgess H was the first aircraft with a tractor propeller of the US Army Signal Corps in 1913 .
development
On February 1, 1911, William Starling Burgess and Greely S. Curtis received a license to replicate Wright aircraft. They build and sell aircraft for the US Army and US Navy . The Burgess Company & Curtis was formed on June 3, 1911 in Marblehead, Massachusetts .
The Burgess H was designed from the start as a military aircraft. The double-decker was built in 1912. The Burgess H had a 70 hp Renault engine that drove a pulling propeller. In the beginning it was only one-seater, but was converted into a two-seater by Grover Loening in 1914.
The Aeronautical Division of the US Army Signal Corps received five Burgess Hs in September 1913. The machines went to the 1st Aero Squadron at Rockwell Field on North Island in San Diego . This was the Signal Corps Aviation School. The Burgess H were the machines number 24-28 of the Aeronautical Division. They were used as a trainer aircraft from 1913 to 1915.
A seaplane variant went to the US Navy, which was later designated as the D-1 or AB-7 .
On February 14, 1914, Lieutenant Townsend Dodd and Sergeant Herbert Marcus set a new record for endurance flights and distance with a Burgess H. The flight lasted 4 hours and 43 minutes and the flight distance was 393 km. The two-seat machine also broke the records for single-seat aircraft.
Burgess later worked with the British John William Dunne and sold z. B. the Burgess-Dunne AH-7 to the US Navy or to the Canadian Aviation Corps . The Burgess Company built aircraft until 1918.
Technical specifications
| Burgess H : | |
| Parameter | Data |
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| length | 8.45 m |
| Wingspan | 10.52 m |
| height | k. A. |
| drive | A Renault engine with 70 hp (51 kW) |
| Top speed | k. A. |
| crew | two men |
