The Brown-Young BY-1, also called the Columbia Sesquiplane and the Model 2, was a prototype
sesquiplane
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from
Columbia Aircraft Co.
Design and development
Richard E. Young was the inventor of
Spiralloy, a directional glass fibre composite material used in high-strength applications. Together with Willis C. Brown he designed and built the BY-1, a four-seat equivalent to the two-seat
Luscombe Phantom
The Luscombe Phantom was a 1930s American two-seat cabin monoplane and the first product of the Luscombe Aircraft Engineering Company.
Design and development
Donald A. Luscombe formed the Luscombe Aircraft Engineering Company in 1933 at Kansas ...
parasol monoplane.
After completion, a smaller lower wing was mounted below the
fuselage, converting it to a
sesquiplane
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with backward staggered wings. The lower wing also housed the retractable
landing gear main wheels.
The wings were
fabric covered, while the fuselage was of all-metal construction and supported the non-retractable tailwheel.
A single Jacobs
radial engine in the nose drove a two-bladed propeller.
Operational history
The engine from the BY-1 was later installed in the prototype MB-10 trainer. The BY-1 was scrapped at
White Rock Airport
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in
Dallas, Texas for materials during the
Second World War.
Specifications (Brown-Young BY-1)
See also
References
External links
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Sesquiplanes
Columbia Aircraft Corporation aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes with negative stagger