Elias TA-1

Elias TA-1
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Type:	Double Decker - training aircraft
Design country:	United States
Manufacturer:	G. Elias and Brother
First flight:	1920
Number of pieces:	3

The Elias TA-1 is a double-decker - trainer aircraft of the US manufacturer G. Elias and Brother. The TA-1 was tested by the United States Army Air Service (USAAS); however, an order for series production was not placed.

history

The three Elias-Werke aircraft purchased by USAAS in 1920 were given the military designation TA-1. Both wings of the single-handled biplane had the same span and were conventionally constructed from wood and covered with fabric. With the exception of the equipment with radial engines of a new type, the aircraft did not have any noteworthy advanced design features. Two machines are said to have been equipped with a newly developed 200 HP radial engine Lawrance J-1 and one with the older British radial engine ABC Wasp with 170 HP.

During the comparison flights carried out from 1921 to 1923 at McCook Field , the Air Service classified the flight performance as inferior to its competitors Dayton-Wright TA-3 and Huff-Daland TW-5 . In a newspaper report from June 1921, the Wasp machine was described as an aircraft with good flight characteristics. Further development was abandoned and the aircraft were scrapped in 1926.

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	2
length	7.54 m
span	9.93 m
Max. Takeoff mass	1015 kg
Top speed	144 km / h

See also

• List of aircraft types

literature

• ER Johnson: American Military Training Aircraft , McFarland and Co., 2015, ISBN 978-0-7864-7094-5 , pp. 39-41
• John M. Andrade: US Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909 , Midland Counties Publ., 1979, p. 169

Web links

• Photo of a TA-1 with USAAS serial number 64222, (accessed October 27, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Initial Test of New Army Aircraft . In: Aviation Week June 27, 1921, p. 800