Szekely Aircraft Engine
The OE Szekely Corporation was an American aerospace company based in Holland , Michigan .
It was in 1926 by Otto E. Szekely founded to engines and light aircraft to build. The company name was changed shortly afterwards to Szekely Aircraft Engine Co. and aircraft construction was discontinued. The only aircraft that was manufactured by Szekely was the single-seat Szekely V "Flying Dutchman" . The Flying Dutchman was designed by Professor Peter Altman at the University of Detroit in 1927. The rights were bought by Szekely to produce the aircraft. A series of 21 machines with its own SR-3 engine was manufactured by the beginning of 1929.
Szekely were primarily known for their small three-cylinder radial engines of the SR-3 series. Szekely produced more than 300 copies of these.
Two boxer engines were also developed, but they were no longer used. 1932 Szekely went their SR-3 engine series as a result of complaints bankruptcy . The company was dissolved in 1936. Heath Aviation Co. in Benton Harbor , Michigan, took over the service for existing engine and aircraft users. Some of the company's engines still exist, but only in museum quality, such as in the Holland Museum in Michigan.
literature
- Rod Simpson: Aeronaves Mundial de Airlife. Airlife Publishing Ltd., ISBN 1-84037-115-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Manufacturers Aircraft Association New York, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Aircraft Industries Association of America. The Aerospace year book, Volume 1930.
- ↑ George Newman Fuller, Lewis Beeson: Revista historia Michigan, Ed .: Comisión de Historia de Michigan (1937)