It looks inherently unstable. But apparently flew well! It would be interesting to see other designs from Ben Brown's drawing-board. Thank you for sharing this little-known aircraft with us.
That is very interesting. It would of had a lot of lift and I wish I knew more about it. Maybe some day someone could try to build something similar. It would be fascinating.
Two of the still photos show the Transcontinental &Western Airlines maintenance base and corporate headquarters in the background, placing these photos at Municipal Airport (MKC), Kansas City, Missouri. MKC was the commercial airport for Kansas City in 1932. MKC is located about 33 miles east of Lawrence, Kansas. There was a lot of light plane building activity in KC in the late twenties and early thirties, including American Eagle, Rearwin, Portfield, Inland Sport, and others. Lots of homebuilt aircraft activity, too. My guess is that this was another dream to build a light aircraft company that was destroyed by the Depression.
A circle or a fully circular wing has occured elsewhere but this one has a very wide pair of struts adding to the lift. the pusher airscrew is unusual for a small kite such as this.
They sure had some bizarre aircraft designs in the inter war period. Back then everything seemed to have been tried. If it flew, it flew. If it didn't well never mind, try again.
@@talesfromthehutandhangar after a bit of research, it seems that such wings are more aerodynamically efficient, at least on a small scale. more to come, i'm sure.
I presume that I'm not alone in being left guessing what advantages/performance characteristics that wing design conferred upon this aircraft. Perhaps the absence of widespread adoption of the design tells us?
@@hughn Thanks for this extra information Hugh. It is amusing to see a paper from 1985 describing it as "a new type of aircraft configuration" - I think Ben Brown might have had something to say about that😁.
Also, forget looking French. Ben Brown could well have been a British name. The plane looks like it could've been British. But Americans are kinda British by heritage and our political system has not evolved much past the Tudor system, so there's that.
It looks inherently unstable. But apparently flew well! It would be interesting to see other designs from Ben Brown's drawing-board. Thank you for sharing this little-known aircraft with us.
Thanks glad you enjoyed jt
Marvelous !!!!!
Wings like that keep coming back.
Yes nearly 100 years later!
@talesfromthehutandhangar check out the Edwatds Rhomboidal Biplane of 1911 for one of the earliest versions of this wing platform that flew.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Will do thanks
Strut braced coplanar joined wing. Check out patent #5,899,410!😅
Long since lapsed patent...😊
Unique looking little airplane...👍
That is very interesting. It would of had a lot of lift and I wish I knew more about it. Maybe some day someone could try to build something similar. It would be fascinating.
Very cool.
@michaelogden5958 Yes, very for its time or even today.
love it , this would make a great model aeroplane !
Two of the still photos show the Transcontinental &Western Airlines maintenance base and corporate headquarters in the background, placing these photos at Municipal Airport (MKC), Kansas City, Missouri.
MKC was the commercial airport for Kansas City in 1932. MKC is located about 33 miles east of Lawrence, Kansas.
There was a lot of light plane building activity in KC in the late twenties and early thirties, including American Eagle, Rearwin, Portfield, Inland Sport, and others. Lots of homebuilt aircraft activity, too.
My guess is that this was another dream to build a light aircraft company that was destroyed by the Depression.
It's a conjoined tandem-wing triplane. I thought of something like that, but with only 2 wings conjoined. And, unlike this guy, I never built it.
That was lovely, thanks for the upload!!
@leifvejby8023 Thank you. l am pleased you enjoyed it.
WAIT, THIS CAME OUT OF LAWRENCE, KS!? I WENT TO COLLEGE THERE (and still live fairly close)!!!!! I'm gonna have to do some digging now.
@@DataRew Let me know if you find anything more about it 👍
Amazing - Should have had a Interest future Thankyou for the presentation
@@ivanhicks887 Thanks
A circle or a fully circular wing has occured elsewhere but this one has a very wide pair of struts adding to the lift. the pusher airscrew is unusual for a small kite such as this.
typo...occurred.
Interesting video thanls for posting
Thank you, I am pleased you enjoyed it 👍
They sure had some bizarre aircraft designs in the inter war period. Back then everything seemed to have been tried. If it flew, it flew. If it didn't well never mind, try again.
It's amazing what aviators came up with back then.
I'd call it a conjoined tri-plane. Weird!
Convergent tipped triplane?
i'm stuck trying to figure out...why??
Why not & it worked !
@@talesfromthehutandhangar after a bit of research, it seems that such wings are more aerodynamically efficient, at least on a small scale.
more to come, i'm sure.
I presume that I'm not alone in being left guessing what advantages/performance characteristics that wing design conferred upon this aircraft. Perhaps the absence of widespread adoption of the design tells us?
But they are going down a similar route today.
me too...
@@kidmohair8151 but he tried and it worked. Very outside the box thinking.
@@hughn Thanks for this extra information Hugh. It is amusing to see a paper from 1985 describing it as "a new type of aircraft configuration" - I think Ben Brown might have had something to say about that😁.
Also, forget looking French. Ben Brown could well have been a British name. The plane looks like it could've been British. But Americans are kinda British by heritage and our political system has not evolved much past the Tudor system, so there's that.