- Design and construction
- Survivors
- Variants
- Specifications (A2-60)
- See also
- References
- External links
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The Arrow Sport was a two-seat sporting biplane aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Design and constructionThe plane was designed by Swen Swanson and it was of largely conventional configuration with tailskid undercarriage, but was interesting in that the pilot and passenger sat side by side in the open cockpit, and because as originally designed, the fully cantilever wings lacked interplane struts – the upper wing attaching directly to the top of the fuselage. This latter feature proved so alarming to many prospective pilots that the manufacturer later supplied N-type struts that were of no real function other than to allay the aviators' fears. SurvivorsSeveral Sport aircraft flew in the United States in 2009. Nine Sports are preserved in U.S. museums and collections including an example of the A2-60 variant at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.[1] An Arrow Sport Pursuit is on display * Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum. Variants- Sport – Two-seat spoting biplane, powered by a 60-hp (45-kW) LeBlond radial piston engine.
- Sport 85 - 85 hp Leblond radial, extra four degrees of dihedrial on lower wing.[2]
- Sport A2
- Sport A2-60
- Sport A2-66
- Sport A2-90 Tangerine
- Sport Pursuit (renamed Sport K in 1935) – Improved version, powered by a 100-hp (75-kW) Kinner K-5 radial engine.
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1. ^Ogden, 2007, p. 572
2. ^{{cite journal|magazine=Popular Aviation|date=July 1931|page=15}}
3. ^Aviation January 1932, pp. 47, 50.
- Bibliography
{{refbegin}}- {{cite magazine|title=American airplane specifications |magazine= Aviation |date= January 1932 |volume= 31|issue= 1|pages= 47–51 |registration=yes |url= http://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19320101#!&pid=46}}
- {{cite book|last=Ogden|first=Bob|title=Aviation Museums and Collections of North America|year=2007|publisher=Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd|isbn=0-85130-385-4}}
- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=81 }}
{{refend}}External links{{commons category|Arrow Sport}}- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070610183245/http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/arrowsport.htm NASM website]
- aviationhistory.com
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