USA Giant Biplane of 1921, Eggleston ?

[hesham]

From L'Air 1922,

what was this ?.

 

[Antonio]

A wingspan close to a B-36 in 1921?...Too ambitious!

 

[Dynoman]

The test on the Eggleston Air Cell was carried out on October 12 and 13th, 1921 in the Curtiss 7 foot wind tunnel and was conducted by the Cox-Klemin Aircraft Corp., College Point, Long Island, NY., acting as Consulting and Designing Engineers. The model was a 1:72 scale model and operated in a 30 mph tunnel. The struts were designed to add lift to the aircraft's design.
The L/D graph below shows the models performance with and without the cells. The designer of the aircraft was Col. Thomas L. Eggleston.

 

[Dynoman]

Thomas L. Eggleston (80 years old, 1929). The aircraft had 8 engines of 800 hp each. 240 ft wingspan and carry 125 passengers.

 

[Dynoman]

Eggleston's patent of 1920. He founded the Eggleston Air Cell Aeroplane Company in 1920.

 

[publiusr]

Bless him.

"Air Cell"...he might have thought of a line of planes where you could tack on "boxes" consisting of an upper-and-lower wing segment with supports--each such segment would be a cell.

Materials of the day just not up to snuff.