Curtiss CT-1

12/15/2015. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This design was laid out by the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, and Curtiss completed only the first of nine ordered (Navy serials A-5890 to A-5898). The layout was quite unconventional, with a crew pod and engine nacelles built onto a fabric covered wooden cantilever wing; the tail surfaces were supported by booms connected to the twin floats and the wing.

Fitted initially with two 300 hp Wright-Hispano H engines, the CT-1 (Curtiss Torpedoplane in the emerging Navy designation system) was delivered to the Rockaway NAS near the Garden City, New York plant on May 1, 1921. Armament consisted of one or two 0.303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns. It was returned to Curtiss in March 1922 for refitting with 435 hp Curtiss D-12 engines as pictured above. The CT-1 was struck from the Navy list on November 9, 1923."

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Wright-Hispano H

65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)
46 ft 0 in (14.02 m)
14 ft 6 in (4.41 m)
830 sq.ft (17.10 sq.m)
6,489 lb (2,943 kg)
9,884 lb (4,483 kg)
100 mph (209 kmh)
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350 mls (563 km)

Curtiss D-12

65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)
46 ft 0 in (14.02 m)
14 ft 6 in (4.41 m)
830 sq.ft (17.10 sq.m)
7,684 lb (3,485 kg)
11,208 lb (5,084 kg)
107 mph (172 kmh)
to 2,600 ft (792 m) 10 min
5,200 ft (1,585 m)
350 mls (563 km)