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Loughead S-1 Sport

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Only one prototype was built and test flown in 1920 by Gilbert G. Budwig. The S-1 was not marketable against the flood of surplus World War I aircraft on the market at the time. The company was liquidated soon afterward in 1921 and reformed again with the new Lockheed Vega based on the S-1 in 1926.
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aircraft. The wings folded along the side of the aircraft for storage. Roll control was via a system that pivoted the entire lower wing surfaces. They also could be pivoted a full 90 degrees as a massive air brake.
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The S-1 was originally intended to be a two-seater, but was switched to a single place design to make production costs lower. The two cylinder engine was designed in-house by Anthony Stadlman. The
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The S-1 was developed to produce aircraft with existing capacity and skill of Loughead workers after the end of
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laid up in concrete molds. The process would be later applied to the larger and more famous
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two cylinder water cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 25 hp (19 kW)
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The prototype does not exist, the engine is currently in private ownership.
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biplane
United States of America
Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company
John Northrop
biplane
Lockheed
World War I
STOL
fuselage
monocoque
Lockheed Vega
Loughead XL-1
cite journal
help
cite journal
help
"Early Aviators"
"Molded Plywood Construction"
Image of an S-1
Categories
1920s United States civil utility aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1920

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