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Grumman Loening C-2 Air Yacht
Grumman Aerospace Loening C-2 Air Yacht
| One of the XHL-1s | |
| Role | Amphibious airliner |
|---|---|
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | |
| Designer | Grover Loening |
| First flight | 1928 |
| Number built | 36 |
History Grumm an Aerospace Loening C-2 Air Yacht
The loening c-2 air yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the united states at the end of the 1920s, developed from the ol observation aircraft the firm was producing for the us military..
The C-2 was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. The pilot (and sometimes one passenger) sat in an open cockpit at the top of the fuselage, with the engine mounted in front of them. Underneath the fuselage was a long "shoehorn"-style float, that extended forward underneath the engine and propeller. Four to six passengers could be accommodated in a fully enclosed cabin within the fuselage. The main units of the undercarriage retracted into wells in the sides of the fuselage. Stabilising floats were fitted against the undersides of the lower wing. The C-2 was produced in two versions, the C-2C with a Wright Cyclone engine and the C-2H with a Pratt & Whitney Hornet. Two examples of this latter version were evaluated by the USMC as air ambulances under the designation XHL-1
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General characteristics.
- Crew: One pilot
- Capacity: 7 passengers
- Length: 34 ft 8 in (10.57 m)
- Wingspan: 45 ft 0 in (13.72 m)
- Wing area: 504 sq ft (46.8 m 2 )
- Gross weight: 5,800 lb (2,640 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Hornet , 525 hp (390 kW)
Specifications
- Maximum speed: 190 km/h,
- Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
Civilian operators
- Kohler Aviation Corporation
- Air Ferries Ltd
Military operators
- United States Marine Corps
Links to Youtube & Others
Two C-2Hs were also used by the firm Air Ferries in the 1930s before the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was completed to transport passengers between Oakland and San Francisco, cutting a normal forty-minute ferry boat ride to just six minutes
Loening C-2 Air Yacht
The F-14 Tomcat was designed as both an air superiority fighter and a long-range naval interceptor.
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At the time of filming, the only recognizable star in the movie was Tom Cruise, who was known as a teen idol from 1983’s “Risky Business.”.
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The Loening Air Yacht, a photo gallery of the plane in China
The Loening Air Yacht was the height of CNAC’s commercial aviation technology when China’s Wings ‘ main character, William Langhorne Bond , arrived in China in March, 1931.
I’d never heard of the Loening Air Yacht when I discovered the China’s Wings story ; by the time I’d finished writing the book, it was one of my favorite airplanes (along with the Douglas Dolphin and the DC-2).
Here’s a gallery of photos of the ungainly beast. Click my Loening Air Yacht tag for all the posts I’ve made that feature the strange airplane:
Here’s an interesting YouTube video of the Oakland-to-San Francisco seaplane ferry using a Loening in 1930 , with brief footage of the San Francisco waterfront.
My grandfather, Lawrence A. Waite, flew for CNAC along the Yangste River Line starting February 1931. He wrote a memoir about this experience. Would you like to read it?
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- Floatplanes
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- Aircraft first flown in 1928
Loening C-2
| C-2 Air Yacht | |
|---|---|
| One of the XHL-1s | |
| Role | Amphibious airliner |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Loening |
| First flight | 1928 |
| Number built | 36 |
The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL observation aircraft the firm was producing for the US military. [1] It was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. The pilot (and sometimes one passenger) sat in an open cockpit at the top of the fuselage, with the engine mounted in front of them. Underneath the fuselage was a long "shoehorn"-style float, that extended forward underneath the engine and propeller. Four to six passengers could be accommodated in a fully enclosed cabin within the fuselage. The main units of the undercarriage retracted into wells in the sides of the fuselage. Stabilising floats were fitted against the undersides of the lower wing. [1]
The C-2 was produced in two versions, the C-2C with a Wright Cyclone engine and the C-2H with a Pratt & Whitney Hornet . [2] Two examples of this latter version were evaluated by the USMC as air ambulances under the designation XHL-1 . [2]
One C-2C, modified from an OL, was flown from New York City to Bergen by Thor Solberg in 1935, the first flight from the United States to Norway. [3] Solberg christened the aircraft Leiv Eiriksson and used it to roughly re-trace its namesake's journey across the Atlantic (albeit from West-to-East, and by air) via Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. This aircraft is now preserved in the Norsk Teknisk Museum in Oslo. [3]
Two C-2Hs were also used by the firm Air Ferries in the 1930s before the Oakland Bay Bridge was completed to transport passengers between Oakland and San Francisco, cutting a normal forty-minute ferry boat ride to just six minutes. [4]
The first commercial flights in Aruba were made in 1934 using a C-2H which had been purchased from Standard Oil in Venezuela. [5]
- 2 Operators
- 3 Specifications (C-2H)
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Variants [ ]
- C-2C - Wright Cyclone -powered version (23 built)
- C-2H - (USN designation XHL ) Pratt & Whitney Hornet -powered version (13 built, plus one converted from C-2C.
Operators [ ]
- United States Marine Corps
Specifications (C-2H) [ ]
General characteristics
- Crew: One pilot
- Capacity: 7 passengers
- Length: 34 ft 8 in (10.57 m)
- Wingspan: 45 ft 0 in (13.72 m)
- Wing area: 504 ft 2 (46.8 m 2 )
- Gross weight: 5,800 lb (2,640 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Hornet , 525 hp (390 kW) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 120 mph (190 km/h)
- Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
References [ ]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Loening Cabin Amphibian", 415
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Aerofiles
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Highlights from the exhibitions in The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo"
- ↑ "Special Pier for Air Ferry Speeds Bay Traffic" Popular Mechanics Monthly , July 1930
- ↑ Republic of Égyptien Q42 user:mgbtrust0 ®™✓©§∆∆∆€¢£. "Airport History" . https://www.airportaruba.com/airport-history . Retrieved 16 September 2017 .
External links [ ]
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- Republic of Égyptien Q42 user:mgbtrust0 ®™✓©§∆∆∆€¢£. "Loening" . Aerofiles . http://aerofiles.com/_loening.html . Retrieved 2008-10-15 .
- Republic of Égyptien Q42 user:mgbtrust0 ®™✓©§∆∆∆€¢£. "Highlights from the exhibitions in The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo" . Norsk Teknisk Museum website . http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/ntm/eng/exhibitions/highlights.htm . Retrieved 2008-10-15 .
- Republic of Égyptien Q42 user:mgbtrust0 ®™✓©§∆∆∆€¢£ (7 June 1928). "The Loening Cabin Amphibian" . pp. 415–17 . http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1928/1928%20-%200459.html . Retrieved 2008-10-15 . (This article actually describes the C-2's immediate predecessor, the Wasp-engined Loening C-1 .)
- 1 List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces
- 2 Comparative military ranks of Korea
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 About this PlanLoening C-2 Air Yacht. Loening Keystone. Scale amphibious airliner model. Direct submission to Outerzone. Update 29/07/2015: Have re-scaled this plan now to something closer to the quoted fullsize of 49in wingspan, thanks to Pit for help with this. It is an old plan, and has not travelled well, I would recommend extreme caution if trying to use this one to actually build with. Update 14/10/2019: Added article, thanks to RFJ. Quote: "How to Build a Loening Amphibian. Here's Something Worth Building! A Flying Model of This Famous Air Yacht! A GREAT number of our readers have been asking why amphibian plans are impossible to obtain. They told us that no manufacturer in the entire country had them - that they were told that amphibian models could not be made to fly - that if built, they would cost too much and a thousand other similar excuses. That was just the kind of incentive MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS likes, and efforts were made to disprove the pessimists' wails. It was a job, we admit, but the finished product proves well worth the effort. It will fly, costs no more than the average scale model and looks like the real thing. In its construction, we found that it was necessary to depart from the exact measurements of the Loening in a few places and add a four-bladed propeller, instead of the three, but apart from these minor changes, it is true to form. Construction Details of Pontoon or Hull: In constructing the pontoon take a sheet of 1/16 x 6 x 36 in balsa and cut out formers B-1 to B-6 by tracing them from the drawings as shown in drawing 15. All these formers must be shaped to fit drawings, which are full size. The edges are then nicked as shown to fit the connecting spars and cross sections. The next step is to take your 4 x 3 x 1 in block and shape out the 'bumper' or front end of the hull of pontoon. The 'bumper' A.B is then placed into position as shown in drawing 1, with ambroid, notches being cut to fit ends of longerons..." Supplementary file notesCorrections. Did we get something wrong with these details about this plan (especially the datafile)? That happens sometimes. You can help us fix it. Add a correction 
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The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL observation aircraft the firm was producing for the US military. Design and development The C-2 was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. ...
The Loening C-4C, later the Keystone-Loening K-85 Air Yacht following the merger of the Loening and Keystone companies, was an amphibious utility biplane built in the United States in the late 1920s. It was developed by Grover Loening from the C-1 that he had created together with Leroy Grumman, incorporating a new fuselage design.This departed from the characteristic Loening design feature of ...
The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL observation aircraft the firm was producing for the US military. It was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. ...
Any self-respecting US millionaire owned an 'air yacht', but the C-2 Air Yacht was sometimes used as an airliner, Western Air Express flying it between LA and Catalina Island. This service was taken over by Wilmington-Catalina Airline in June 1931 - see photo 356988. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum.
The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL observation aircraft the firm was producing for the US military. The C-2 was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. ...
The Loening Air Yacht was the height of CNAC's commercial aviation technology when China's Wings' main character, William Langhorne Bond, arrived in China in March, 1931.. I'd never heard of the Loening Air Yacht when I discovered the China's Wings story; by the time I'd finished writing the book, it was one of my favorite airplanes (along with the Douglas Dolphin and the DC-2).
The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL observation aircraft the firm was producing for the US military. It was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. The pilot (and sometimes one passenger) sat in an open cockpit at the top of the ...
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The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL- observation aircraft. It was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage. Underneath the fuselage was a long "shoehorn"-style float, that extended forward underneath the engine and ...
Aircraft photo of NC10239 - Loening C-2H Air Yacht, taken by Kjell O Granlund - Scanavphoto at Moss - Rygge (ENRY / RYG) in Norway on 14 June 1975 during the Rygge Air Show 1975. On July 18, 1935, Thor Solberg and Paul C. Oscanyan left Floyd-Bennett Field for Norway with NC10239 passing through Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and arriving in Bergen, Norway 16 ...
Aircraft photo of NR10239 - Loening C-2H Air Yacht, taken by AirHistory.net Photo Archive at New York - Floyd Bennett Field (NOP) (closed) in New York, United States on 17 July 1935. Named for the Norse seafarer Leif Erikson, this Loening flew from America to Norway via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes. Photo must have been taken on 17 July 1935, the day Thor Solberg an...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. Loening C-2 by registration (2 C) Loening C-2 by variant (2 C) Retrieved from " ". Categories: Flying boats of the United States. Loening aircraft. 1920s aircraft.
The Loening C-2 Air Yacht was an amphibious airliner produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, developed from the OL observation aircraft the firm was producing for the US military. It was a two-bay biplane of unconventional design, with a tall, narrow fuselage that nearly filled the interplane gap. The pilot (and sometimes one passenger) sat in an open cockpit at the top of the ...
Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum. This photo was added on 29 August 2021, and has since been viewed 664 times. Aircraft photo of NC65K - Loening C-2H Air Yacht - Air Ferries, taken by AirHistory.net Photo Archive at San Francisco - Pier 5 Seaplane (closed) in California, United States between January 1930 and November 1931.
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Crash of a Loening C-2C Air Yacht into Lake Michigan. Date & Time: Dec 28, 1933 at 1540 LT Type of aircraft: Loening C-2 Air Yacht. Operator: Registration: NC139H. Flight Phase: Flight. Flight Type: ... 2. Crew fatalities: 0. Pax on board: 0. Pax fatalities: 0. Other fatalities: 0.
About this Plan. Loening C-2 Air Yacht. Loening Keystone. Scale amphibious airliner model. Direct submission to Outerzone. Update 29/07/2015: Have re-scaled this plan now to something closer to the quoted fullsize of 49in wingspan, thanks to Pit for help with this. It is an old plan, and has not travelled well, I would recommend extreme caution ...
Loening Air Yacht may refer to: Loening Model 23 (1921), the original Air Yacht; Loening C-2 (1928) Loening C-4 (1928), later marketed by Keystone-Loening as the K-85; See also. Loening This page was last edited on 27 June 2023, at 13:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Aircraft photo of NC9773 - Loening C-2H Air Yacht - Western Air Express, taken by AirHistory.net Photo Archive at an unknown location in Unknown State, United States between 6 April 1929 and 30 June 1931. Any self-respecting US millionaire owned an 'air yacht', but the C-2 Air Yacht was sometimes used as an airliner, Western Air Express flying it between LA and Catalina Island.
Crash of a Loening C2-C Air Yacht in San José ... 2. Pax fatalities: 0. Other fatalities: 0. Total fatalities: 0. Circumstances: The airplane was engaged in a survey mission over the Canal zone in Panama and departed San José Airport with two passengers and two crew members, a mechanic and a pilot. As the aircraft was too heavy, one passenger ...
Language Label Description Also known as; English: C-2 Air Yacht. amphibious airliner series by Loening
This photo was added on 16 March 2024, and has since been viewed 51 times. Aircraft photo of NC10239 - Loening C-2H Air Yacht, taken by Propfreak Collection at Oslo - Gardermoen (ENGM / OSL) in Norway in June 1991. Built in the 1930s. Now on display in the Technical Museum, Oslo, Norway - (photographer not known)
Le 18 juillet 1935, Solberg fait une deuxième tentative avec un autre avion, un monomoteur amphibie Loening C-2-C Air Yacht (en) qu'il nomme Liev Eiriksson. Sur ce vol, Paul C. Oscanyan, qui a travaillé pour Eastern Airlines, est opérateur radio [9]. Il fait le voyage dans un avion monomoteur à cockpit ouvert et sans instruments d'atterrissage.
Aircraft photo of NR10239 - Loening C-2H Air Yacht, taken by AirHistory.net Photo Archive at Ingierstrand - Seaplane (closed) in Norway on 18 August 1935. Beautiful photo of Thor Solberg's arrival at the Widerøe seaplane station near Oslo following his transatlantic flight, which took almost a month via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands...