Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Waco UPF-7, built in 1941, arriving at the 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo, England. The Waco Aircraft Company ( WACO) was an aircraft manufacturer located in Troy, Ohio, United States. Between 1920 and 1947, the company produced a wide range of civilian biplanes . The company initially started under the name Weaver Aircraft Company of Ohio ...
The Waco CG-4 was the most widely used American troop/cargo military glider of World War II. It was designated the CG-4A by the United States Army Air Forces, [ 1] and given the service name Hadrian (after the Roman emperor) by the British. The glider was designed by the Waco Aircraft Company. Flight testing began in May 1942.
The white-tailed deer is the state mammal of Ohio. This list of mammals of Ohio includes a total of 70 mammal species recorded in the state of Ohio. [1] Of these, three (the American black bear, Indiana bat, and Allegheny woodrat) are listed as endangered in the state; four (the brown rat, black rat, house mouse, and wild boar) are introduced; three (the gray bat, Mexican free-tailed bat and ...
One of these designs was the XCG-13 by Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio . The XCG-13 contract was for a 30-place design with an 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) useful load capacity to fly 174 mph (280 km/h) at an altitude of 12,000 feet (3,700 m) altitude. Flight testing of the prototype was performed at Clinton County Army Air Field and the type was ...
11 September 1943. Number built. 1x 1/2 scale MC-1, 1x MC-1, 1x XCG-16. The XCG-16was a military transport/assault glider ordered by the United States Army Air Forces(USAAF), from General Airborne Transport Co., for competition against the Waco CG-13A at Wright Field. The XCG-16’s preferred tow aircraft was the Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar.
The WACO glider was marketed as a low-cost training aircraft for individuals or glider clubs. About 300 were produced between 1930 and 1931. Replicas have been made using both steel tube or wood frames. Plans are still available for homebuilt construction. The glider was designed to fly at low airspeeds.
List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...
This is a list of airports in Ohio (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.