Aeronca Model 10 « Eagle » pusher

[Stargazer]

Designed to meet the transportation needs of family and business air travel, the four-place Aeronca Model 10 Eaglewas to be roomier than any other plane in its price class.

Peter Altman, Detroit University aeronautical engineer and consultant to Aeronca, designed the Eagle. It was to have retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by twin pusher gas turbines driving the propeller. Altman's patent application was filed on August 2, 1945. This airplane never got off the ground, figuratively or literally, as the power transmission system could not be perfected and Aeronca wanted to move on.




Source: Aeronca's Golden Age by Alan Abel, Wind Canyon Books, 2001.

 

[hesham]

Great find Stargazer,


for the Aeronaca,its projects are very rare.

 

[me262a-1a]

Designed to meet the transportation needs of family and business air travel, the four-place Aeronca Model 10 Eaglewas to be roomier than any other plane in its price class.

Peter Altman, Detroit University aeronautical engineer and consultant to Aeronca, designed the Eagle. It was to have retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by twin pusher gas turbines driving the propeller. Altman's patent application was filed on August 2, 1945. This airplane never got off the ground, figuratively or literally, as the power transmission system could not be perfected and Aeronca wanted to move on.




Source: Aeronca's Golden Age by Alan Abel, Wind Canyon Books, 2001.

Very unique and much interesting civil plane!!
Is it possible a 3-view drawing to be find??

 

[hesham]

Very unique and much interesting civil plane!!
Is it possible a 3-view drawing to be find??

Welcome aboard Me262a-1a,

and it's hardto find,but I will search.

 

[riggerrob]

Not surprising.
Circa 1945, dozens of American airplane manufacturers projected a massive surge in sale of private airplanes immediately post-war. Traditional manufactures (e.g. Aeronca) geared up to produce thousands of Champs, Chiefs, etc. but sales were no where near expectations. Dozens of factories went bankrupt and closed.
Plenty of projects - like the above never got beyond mockup stage.
The market was further diluted by thousands of war-surplus trainers auctioned off for pennies on the dollar.
Canadian farmers often bought war-surplus planes, drained the gasoline and pushed the remnants behind the barn to rot.