Eberhart FG
| Eberhart FG | |
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| Type: | Carrier-based fighter aircraft |
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| Manufacturer: |
Eberhart Steel Products Products Co. |
| First flight: |
1926 |
| Number of pieces: |
1 |
The Eberhart XFG was a fighter aircraft intended for use on aircraft carriers by the US manufacturer Eberhart Steel Products Products from the 1920s. Only a prototype was built, which was later also used to test the suitability of a fighter equipped with floats.
history
Eberhart Steel had his first contact with the construction of aircraft in the early 1920s when he built 50 Royal Aircraft Factory SE5s under license for the United States Army Air Service . The prototype XFG-1 was delivered to the US Navy in November 1926 and tested there with a wheeled chassis until the end of 1927. This was followed by extensive reconstruction by the beginning of 1928, which included an extension of the wings to 9.75 m and the addition of a floating mechanism with a central float and side support floats. This was accompanied by the renaming to F2G-1 . Further development was stopped after the crash of the only prototype.
construction
The FG-1 was a single-handled biplane with a fabric-covered, welded tubular steel structure of the fuselage and fabric-covered wings that had a duralumin structure. A special feature of the aircraft was that the upper wings were swept backwards and the lower ones slightly forwards.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data of the XFG-1 |
|---|---|
| crew | 1 |
| length | 8.31 m |
| span | 8.82 m |
| Wing area | 22.39 m 2 |
| Empty mass | 973 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 1455 kg |
| Top speed | 248 km / h |
| Engines | 1 Pratt & Whitney R-1340 C Wasp 9 nine-cylinder radial engine with a metal two-blade fixed propeller |
See also
literature
- ER Johnson: United States Naval Aviation 1919-1941 , McFarland and Co., 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-6269-8 , pp. 69 f.
