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Keystone. Различные самолеты
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Два сухопутных самолета завершили линию гражданских аэропланов "Keystone". Одним из них был трехмоторный Pathfinder - биплан с размахом крыла 20,12 м и закрытой кабиной на 12 человек. Экипаж из командира и второго пилота/штурмана размещался отдельно от десяти пассажиров. Силовая установка включала три мотора Wright J-5 мощностью по 220 л.с.: один в носовой части фюзеляжа, два на нижнем крыле по бортам фюзеляжа.
Последний гражданский самолет Patrician построили в 1928 году. Это был подкосный высокоплан, крупнейший на тот момент в США трехмоторный самолет. Силовая установка включала три Wright Cyclone мощностью по 525 л.с. (один в носовой части фюзеляжа, два на подкосах между крылом и фюзеляжем). Экипаж состоял из двух человек и располагался в отдельной кабине, в пассажирском салоне (с обогревом и вентиляцией) помещалось до 18 человек.
При размахе крыла 26,37 м и длине 18,77 м Patrician был передовым для своего времени пассажирским самолетом, но на его судьбе негативно сказался экономический кризис 1930 года.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
The prototype Patrician outside the Keystone factory in Bristol, Pennsylvania, November 1928.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Re-fuelling the prototype, some time before the fire on November 21, 1928.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Loading baggage for the demonstration flight to the West Coast
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
The Patrician in the markings of Colonial Air Transport during its brief trial service trial on the Boston-New York route.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Keystone was quick to use the Patrician's service with Colonial, brief though it was, in its advertising campaign.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
The prototype Patrician on take-off.
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The rebuilt Patrician prototype in flight over New Jersey in early 1929.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Preparing to leave for the West Coast, February 4, 1929. Left to right: C Talbot Porter, Edgar Gott, Captain St Clair Street; Oliver Klaxton; Charles Koch.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
In the centre, wearing a leather flying suit, is Kenneth Fraser, Keystone test pilot for the first flight. C Talbot Porter, Keystone's Chief Engineer, stands third from right, and next to him, holding a movie camera, is Edgar Gott, Keystone's president. To Gott's left stands Lt Edwin McReynolds, official observer for the USAAC, who made the first flight with Fraser. Clarence Chamberlain, who flew the Atlantic after Lindbergh, stands next to Fraser, wearing a white flying helmet. On the far left stands Charles Koch, Keystone's Project Engineer, who managed the design and construction of the Patrician.
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The 33 showgirls who took part in the Patrician's unofficial record for passengers carried, in front of the aircraft in Los Angeles on the West Coast tour.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
The K-78D Patrician at the Second Annual International Aircraft Exposition in St Louis, Missouri, in February 1930.
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Revised K-78D Patrician in the form of the third aircraft NC10N.
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The revised rudder assembly common to the second and third Patricians.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Prototype Patrician under construction.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
The Patrician's cockpit, showing the single control wheel that could be swung over to the co-pilot's position.
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The Patrician's main cabin, looking forward.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Damage to the prototype's rear fuselage after the emergency landing in Boston.
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Air Enthusiast 2006-11 / E.Young - Ponderous Patrician /Airliners and air services/
Marketing brochure for the Patrician.
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