Английская Википедия:Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper

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The Fairchild 91, (a.k.a. A-942), was a single-engine eight-passenger flying boat airliner developed in the United States in the mid-1930s.

Design

Fairchild designed the aircraft in response to a Pan American Airways request for a small flying boat to operate on their river routes along the Amazon and Yangtze. The result was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with its radial engine mounted above the wing in a streamlined nacelle. Before construction of the prototype was complete, however, Pan American no longer required the aircraft to operate in China, and Fairchild optimised the design for the Brazilian tropics.

Operational history

After the first two aircraft were delivered, Pan American cancelled the remaining four aircraft of its order as they no longer needed any for China and the two aircraft were capable of handling the Amazon River.

The sole A-942-B was specially built for the American Museum of Natural History and was used by naturalist Richard Archbold on his second expedition to Papua New Guinea in 1936–1937.

The prototype was sold to the Spanish Republican Air Force, but the ship carrying it was captured by the Spanish Nationalists and was used by them until 1941.

The A-942 bought by industrialist Garfield Wood was sold to the British American Ambulance Corps before being transferred to the RAF, who operated it in Egypt for air-sea rescue.

One exampled was sold to the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service for evaluation, but was wrecked shortly after delivery, so a second example was purchased to replace it.

Variants

Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper

Initial version built to Pan Am specifications for use on rivers, powered by a Шаблон:Cvt Pratt & Whitney S2EG Hornet. Six built.

Fairchild A-942-A

Alternative designation for the Fairchild 91

Fairchild 91B Jungle Clipper

Specially equipped for NYC Museum of Natural History, powered by a Шаблон:Cvt Wright SGR-1820F-52 Cyclone. One built, NR777.

Fairchild A-942-B

Alternative designation for the Fairchild 91B.

Fairchild XSOK-1

Proposed U.S. Navy scout; none built.

Fairchild LXF

Two A-942Bs supplied to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for evaluation.

Airframes

Шаблон:Abbr	Registration as built	Delivery Customer	Notes	Refs
9401	NC14743	None - Prototype	to Spanish Aviación Nacional as 63-1 Virgen de Chamorro, scrapped 1941
9402	NC14744	Pan Am for Panair do Brasil	PP-PAP, wrecked at Belem, 1941
9403	NC15952	Pan Am for Panair do Brasil	PP-PAT, scrapped 1945
9404	NC16359	Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service	designated LXF-1, wrecked Japan, 1937
9405	NC16690	Gar Wood	to British American Ambulance Corps, then to Шаблон:Abbr as HK832
9406	NC19130	Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service	designated LXF-1, wrecked in Nankin, China, 1939
9407	NR777	Шаблон:Nobreak	as Kono (Duck) wrecked during storm in Port Moresby, 1936.

Specifications (A-942-A)

Файл:Fairchild A-942 3-view L'Aerophile May 1936.jpg

Fairchild A-942 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile May 1936

References

Bibliography

• Шаблон:Cite magazine
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• Taylor, Michael J.H. . Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions. London. 1989. Шаблон:ISBN
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