PlaneSpottingWorld welcomes all new members! Please gives your ideas at the Terminal.

Waco 10

From PlaneSpottingWorld, for aviation fans everywhere

The Waco 10/GXE/Waco O series was a range of three seat open-cockpit biplanes built by the Advance Aircraft Company, later the Waco Aircraft Company.

Design and development

The Waco 10 was a larger span development of the Waco 9, both single engined three seat single bay biplanes constructed around steel tube frames. The wing covering was fabric and both upper and lower planes carried ailerons, which were strut linked. The two passengers sat side by side in a cockpit under the upper wing and ahead of the pilot, who had a separate cockpit. It had a split axle fixed undercarriage and a tailwheel. The main undercarriage was fitted with hydraulic shock absorbers, unusual at the time on a light aircraft. The fin could be trimmed on the ground to off set engine torque and the tailplane could be trimmed in flight. Initially it was powered by a Curtiss OX-5 water cooled 90o V-8 engine producing 90 hp (67 kW).

Its first flight was in 1927. It was numerically the most important type to be built by Waco with at least 1,623 built over a period of 7 years from 1927 to 1933 and was fitted with a very large variety of engines of radial and V configuration.

Operational history

The Waco 10 turned out to have attractive handling and there was a ready supply of war surplus Curtiss engines. It was widely used for the popularisation of aeronautics through barnstorming and joyrides, and was also much used as a trainer and by small operators for charter flights.

Variants

In 1928, after the Waco 10 had entered production, Waco changed its designation system so that the basic model 10, powered by a Template:Convert Curtiss OX-5 engine became the GXE. The OX-5 was also used in the Waco 9 and this led to the confusing popular description of both aircraft as Waco 90, after the power.

File:Waco ASO NC663N HARM St Louis 10.06.06R.jpg
Waco ASO Straight-wing of 1929 at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum near St Louis in June 2006

Later aircraft used a three letter designation, the first denoting the engine, the second, S or T meaning Straight or Tapered wing and the final O indicating it belongs to the Waco O series for open cockpit. An -A suffix indicated an armed variant intended for export.

Early name post 1928 name Popular/
alternative name
engine power (hp) power (kW)
10 GXE 90 Curtiss OX-5 90 67
10-W ASO 220-T Wright J-5 220 164
ATO Wright J-5 220 164
BSO BS-165 Wright R-540A 165 123
BSO-A Wright R-540A 165 123
CSO C-225 Wright R-760 225 168
CTO Wright R-760 225 168
10-H DSO Hispano-Suiza 8A or E 150/180 112/134
HSO Packard DR-980 Diesel 225 168
HTO Packard DR-980 Diesel 225 168
JTO Wright R-975 300 225
JYO Wright R-975 300 225
KSO Kinner K-5 100 75
OSO Kinner C-5 210 157
PSO Jacobs LA-1 140/170 127/104
QSO Continental A-70 165 123
RSO Warner Scarab 110 82
240-A Continental W-670 240 179

Apart from the Curtiss and Hispano-Suiza, all of these engines were air cooled radials.

Other engines were fitted experimentally, without unique designations, including Rausie, Siemans, and the Template:Convert Milwaukee Tank engine. This was an air-cooled version of the Curtiss OX-5, and was intended as an aircraft engine.

Two mailplane derivatives from the O series (types JYM and JWM) were single seaters with a 14" stretch in the fuselage.

Specifications (Waco GXE)

Data from Aerofiles[1]

General characteristics

  • Crew: one
  • Capacity: two passengers
  • Payload: 825 pounds (including pilot, fuel and oil) (374 kg)
  • Length: 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
  • Wingspan: 30 ft 7 in (9.32 m)
  • Height: 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m)
  • Airfoil: Aeromarine 2A
  • Empty weight: 1199 lb (545 kg)
  • Loaded weight: 2025 lb (920 kg)
  • Powerplant:Curtiss OX-5 , 90 hp (67 kW)

Performance


References

Notes

  1. Aerofiles (April 2009). Waco. Retrieved on 2009-06-10.

Bibliography

  • http://aerofiles.com/_waco.html
  • Juptner, Joseph P. U.S. Civil Aircraft Vol. 1 Los Angeles, California: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1962. Library of Congress # 62-15967.
  • Brandly, Raymond H. Waco Aircraft Production 1923-1942 Troy, Ohio: Waco Aircraft Co., 1986 (2nd Edition). ISBN 096027345X, ISBN 978-0960273454
  • Kobernuss, Fred O. Waco - Symbol of Courage and Excellence unk : Mystic Bay Publisher, 1999. ISBN 1887961011.

External links

Template:WACO

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Waco 10".