Culver Projects ?

[hesham]

Hi,

The American company,Culver,it had some projects as I heard,
and only I know PQ-10,it was an unbuilt or test mod of PQ-8,
does anyone know more ?.

Here's a drawing to well known Culver Cadet,it's not a project.

http://www.culvercadet.com/

 

[Stargazer]

Why start a topic if you do not have anything relevant to share, not even a hint of a designation?
Culver Aircraft was only a brief episode in Al Mooney's career, and all its models are well known.

Here is what I wrote in my unpublished website:

In 1937, Al Mooney formed a partnership with Knight K. Culver and together they incorporated the Dart Manufacturing Corp. in Port Columbus, Ohio, to purchase the design and rights from the Lambert Corp. Under the new company, the M-10 design was produced in three variants as the Models G (90hp Lambert engine), GK (90hp LeBlond) and GW (90hp Warner). A further variant, the GC (100hp Continental) would be produced by Applegate-Weyant in 1946, and many original Darts were refitted with the same engine after the war. The new company was reorganized as the Culver Aircraft Co. in 1938, and wind tunnel tests of a Model H in 1939 suggest that there may have been plans at some points to put the former Monocoach Twin in production under the Culver name, however briefly. Model I was a high performance Model G.

NOTE: Models J and K (if they existed) are not documented.

In 1941, the company moved to Wichita, Kansas, to produce the new Model L Cadet (Mooney's M-12) introduced the previous year. It was produced in LCA (75hp Continental) and LFA (80hp Franklin) variants, and became the basis for the LAR-90 (M-13) and LAR-B (M-14) target drones (Army PQ-8/PQ-8A, Navy TDC). A smaller model, the NR-B (M-15) was test-flown as the XPQ-9 but crashed, and no orders ensued. As for the twin-engine Model MR (no M-number) it was cancelled before completion. However, the much improved Model NR-D (M-16) of 1942, was mass-produced as the PQ-14 and TD2C-1. A much refined design, the XPQ-15 (TD3C-1) was cancelled at war's end. Finally, the new Culver V (for Victory) of 1944 (M-17) was procured by the Navy as the TD4C-1.

NOTE: There was also a Culver JP-1 Jet Powered Target project for the USAF in 1946.

Later in 1946, Mooney set up a new Mooney Aircraft company, producing the M-18 Mite series.

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Below: The unbuilt Model MR or XPQ-10

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[Stargazer]

Also, the prototype LAR-B (Army XPQ-9):



and the XPQ-15 (model, mockup, artist's concept):

 

[riggerrob]

Also, the prototype LAR-B (Army XPQ-9):

View attachment 763112

and the unbuilt XPQ-15:

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Which engine was proposed for the (MX-557)(XPQ-15)(2))2-1-45)(Mock-up)?

 

[Maveric]

May I ask if Culver's gliders ("Li'l Dogie" and "Screaming Wiener") also received a designation?
The designations Model A to Model G were then developments of the Dart company?

 

[Stargazer]

May I ask if Culver's gliders ("Li'l Dogie" and "Screaming Wiener") also received a designation?

Different Culver. The gliders were built by Irvin Culver, Wally Neugent and Walter Burke.
The Mooney aircraft were designed for Knight K. Culver.

The designations Model A to Model G were then developments of the Dart company?

I was about to provide the answer here, but I realize this really belongs in the Designations Systems section.
I'll update the Mooney topic there with the information you requested.

 

[Stargazer]

Which engine was proposed for the (MX-557)(XPQ-12)(2))2-1-45)(Mock-up)?

It's XPQ-15, not 12, and it wasn't just a mock-up, two were actually built and evaluated by the USAAF (though some sources claim there were four). They were powered by a 200hp Franklin O-405 engine.

 

[hesham]

Why start a topic if you do not have anything relevant to share, not even a hint of a designation?
Culver Aircraft was only a brief episode in Al Mooney's career, and all its models are well known.

Of course I know that,but this designer had some projects,and I give
one example by XPQ-10,and obviously his relationship with Mooney,
but I asked about his unknwon projects.

 

[aim9xray]

Gosh @hesham, if I knew about his unknown projects, they wouldn't be unknown, now would they?

 

[hesham]

Gosh @hesham, if I knew about his unknown projects, they wouldn't be unknown, now would they?

I meant un-popular projects,if someone has it in his files.

 

[hesham]

As I know this company had a project for a manned military aircraft,may be for liaison
or reconnaissance duty,does anyone hear about that ?.