The Hall-Scott A-1 was an early aircraft engine. Of
straight-4 configuration, it developed 40 horsepower (30 kW).
The Hall-Scott Motor Car Company began specializing in the construction of airplane engines in 1911. The Type A-1, the first one they produced, was soon being used on many types of early aircraft.
At the Third International Aviation Meet in
Los Angeles
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in 1912, a Hall-Scott A-1 powered an aircraft designed by Jay Gage of Los Angeles and flown by Charles Stevens. During the 1912 International Aviation Meet in
Oakland, Hillery Beachey, brother of famed aviator
Lincoln J. Beachey, flew a biplane powered by an A-1.
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1910s aircraft piston engines