Flight, October 1922

THE 1922 PULITZER TROPHY RACE

   The "Bee-Line" Racer. - The Navy also entered a monoplane, known as the "Bee-Line" Racer, or Navy B.R. 2, designed and built by Messrs. Booth and Thurston, of the Aerial Engineering Corp., Hammondsport, N.Y., ДальшеMore>>> who were formerly with the Curtiss Co. in 1921 and worked on the Curtiss Racer of that year. The B.R. 2 is a cantilever monoplane possessing many original features, and having the wings mounted low on the fuselage, as in the Junkers. A retractable landing gear is fitted, the entire chassis being withdrawn into the fuselage once the machine is in the air. This machine, we believe, also utilises the wings as a radiator for cooling the engine water, the wings being covered by a thin sheet of copper, under which the water circulates. The wings have a pronounced taper from root to tip both in plan form and in thickness. The fuselage is of deep rectangular section. The engine is a 400 h.p. high compression Wright model H.3.
   Characteristics : Span 28 ft. 1 in.; length, 21 ft. 1 1/4 ins.; height, 6 ft. 4 1/2 ins.; chord, 6 ft. to 2 ft.; dihedral angle, 3 1/2°; wing section, Gottingen, 387; total wing area, 104 sq. ft.; weight (fully laden), 2,020 lbs.; loading/sq. ft., 19-4 lbs.; loading/h.p., 5 lbs.; speed range, 70-190 m.p.h.