Stinston light twin prototype

[riggerrob]

Is this the light twin project that Piper got when they bought out Stinston?
I have only seen one other drawing. It was a side-view, on a Piper chart, of a twin-tailed, fabric-covered airplane.
Piper did not copy this strutted, tapered low wing. Production Aztecs and Apaches had constant chord wings with swept wing roots and large radius, rounded wing tips.

These drawings were scanned from Model Aircraft Builder magazine ... late 1930s.

 

[hermankeil]

Is this the light twin project that Piper got when they bought out Stinston?
I have only seen one other drawing. It was a side-view, on a Piper chart, of a twin-tailed, fabric-covered airplane.
Piper did not copy this strutted, tapered low wing. Production Aztecs and Apaches had constant chord wings with swept wing roots and large radius, rounded wing tips.

These drawings were scanned from Model Aircraft Builder magazine ... late 1930s.

No. This is not the machine. Twin Stinson was low wing tricycle gear, twin tail. nothing like this.

 

[hermankeil]

Is this the light twin project that Piper got when they bought out Stinston?
I have only seen one other drawing. It was a side-view, on a Piper chart, of a twin-tailed, fabric-covered airplane.
Piper did not copy this strutted, tapered low wing. Production Aztecs and Apaches had constant chord wings with swept wing roots and large radius, rounded wing tips.

These drawings were scanned from Model Aircraft Builder magazine ... late 1930s.

No. This is not the machine. Twin Stinson was low wing tricycle gear, twin tail. nothing like this.

Look in 1000 AC photos. Search for Twin Stinson. AC in upper LH corner is the one.

 

[riggerrob]

Thanks guys,
The Piper Pa 23 prototypes shown in "thousand airplane photos" have twin rudders, constant-chord wings, semi-retractable, tricycle landing gear and flat engines. They look like the drawing on the Piper chart.
Clearly my drawings are from a much earlier Stinson prototype that was far removed from Piper's light twins.

 

[P-STICKNEY]

Is this the light twin project that Piper got when they bought out Stinston?
I have only seen one other drawing. It was a side-view, on a Piper chart, of a twin-tailed, fabric-covered airplane.
Piper did not copy this strutted, tapered low wing. Production Aztecs and Apaches had constant chord wings with swept wing roots and large radius, rounded wing tips.

These drawings were scanned from Model Aircraft Builder magazine ... late 1930s.

This is the Stinson Model B, from 1934 - s twin-engine variant of the Model A trimotor airliner, with 2 R680s. It's about 20 years older than the Twin Stinson/PA-23 Apache.

 

[avion ancien]

It looks to have more in common with the Cessna Bobcat than the Piper Apache.

 

[Stargazer]

Stinson Model B Bi-Motor, advertised, and almost produced.