The Harmon Engineering Company was an American
aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology indust ...
based in
Howe, Texas
Howe is a town in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,451 in the 2020 U.S. Census. It is part of the Sherman– Denison metropolitan statistical area.
History
The first settlers in the area arrived around the time o ...
. The company specialized in
aircraft plans for amateur construction.
[Plane and Pilot: ''1978 Aircraft Directory'', pages 142-143. Werner & Werner Corp, Santa Monica CA, 1977. ]
The company's original design, given the
German
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**Ge ...
name,
Harmon Der Donnerschlag ( en, Thunderclap) is a simple, open cockpit, single-seat
mid-wing
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
aircraft, built with a welded
4130 steel tube fuselage and wooden-framed wings, all covered in
doped aircraft fabric covering. The aircraft was later developed into the
Harmon Mister America __NOTOC__
The Harmon Mister America was a 1970s American single-seat light sports aircraft designed by James B. Harmon. Plans for home building were made available from the Harmon Engineering Company. It is a mid-wing cantilever monoplane with ...
, which uses the same construction methods and has a similar lay-out. Both designs also employ inexpensive automotive
Volkswagen air-cooled engine
The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is an air-cooled, gasoline-fuelled, boxer engine with four horizontally opposed cast-iron cylinders, cast aluminum alloy cylinder heads and pistons, magnesium-alloy crankcase, and forged steel crankshaft and ...
s.
Aircraft
References
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Homebuilt aircraft