let me guess famous for stunt maneveurs?
then I am going to stay away from one of these.
Aeronca C3 first light plane to comlete the National Air Tour 1931 four thousand and some miles?
Aeronca C-2??
If that's correct, aside from being one of the first aircraft to be affordable for GA, the best I can find of its historical significance is that it was the first airplane to be refueled from a moving automobile.
"[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, MS Sans Serif]The Aeronca C-2 also holds the distinction of being the first aircraft to be refueled from a moving automobile. A can of gasoline was handed up from a speeding Austin automobile to a C-2 pilot (who hooked it with a wooden cane) during a 1930 air show in California."[/FONT]
Any ideas to why Aeronca started with the C-2 designation and not C-1?
The Aeronca C-1 was similiar I believe - 36hp Aeronca engine, etc. Was involved in a fatal crash killing a company exec and the other one they were working on at the time was designated a C-2. That is what I think I recall.
Come on Waco.... it is the most obvious answer....
I've got nothing. There was a C-1 though.
Yes there was.
I'll help prompt you here...
Where did the design of the C-2 come from?
Not hardly...
Google Aeronca and Jean A. Roché...
Jean Roche was Aeronca's chief engineer around the time the C-2 was created. He also had a job at Wright-Patterson designing aircraft/engineering for the Army and he slid between those positions.
What if I told you that he designed and built the first "Flying Bathtub"?
Would that help?