Boeing Model 2

Infobox Aircraft
name=Model 2
type=Trainer
manufacturer=Boeing


caption=Model 3, construction number "C-5"
designer=Wong Tsu
first flight=15 November 1916
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retired=
number built=56
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primary user=U.S. Navy
more users=U.S. Army Air Service
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The Boeing Model 2 and its derivatives were United States two-place training seaplanes, the first "all-Boeing" design and the company's first financial success.

Design and development

Pacific Aero-Products, the forerunner of the Boeing company, built its first all-original airplane, the Model C naval trainer. A total of 56 C-type trainers were built; 55 used twin pontoons. The Model C-1F had a single main pontoon and small auxiliary floats under each wing and was powered by a Curtiss OX-5 engine.

Operational history

The success of the Model C led to Boeing’s first military contract in April 1917 and prompted both its reincorporation as the Boeing Airplane Company and relocation from Lake Union, Washington to a former shipyard on the Duwamish River, also in Washington. The United States Navy bought 51 of the Model C trainers, including the C-1F, and the United States Army bought two landplane versions with side-by-side seating, designated the EA.

The final Model C was built for William Boeing and was called the C-700 (the last Navy plane had been Navy serial number 699). On March 3, 1919 Boeing and Eddie Hubbard flew the C-700 on the first international mail delivery, carrying 60 letters from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Seattle, Washington.

Variants

* Model 2 - original design (1 built)
** Model C-1F - Model 2 remanufactured with single pontoon
* Model 3 - version with revised cabane struts (3 built)
* Model 4 - aka EA landplane version for US Army (2 built)
* Model 5 - revised Model 3 for US Navy (50 built)
** Model C-700 - Model 5 outfitted as mailplane

Operators

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*United States Army Air Service
*United States Navy

pecifications (Model 3)

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ref=Boeing: History ["Model C Trainer". The Boeing Company. [http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/modelc.html] Access date: 24 March 2007.] Bowers, 1989, pg. 41]
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crew=2
capacity=
length m=8.23
length ft=27
length in=0
span m=13.36
span ft=43
span in=10
height m=3.84
height ft=12
height in=7
wing area sqm=45.99
wing area sqft=495
empty weight kg=861
empty weight lb=1,898
gross weight kg=1,086
gross weight lb=2,395

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Hall-Scott A-7A engine
eng1 kw=74.6
eng1 hp=100

max speed kmh=117
max speed mph=72.7
cruise speed kmh=105
cruise speed mph=65
range km=322
range miles=200
endurance h=
endurance min=
ceiling m=1,981
ceiling ft=6,500
climb rate ms=
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References

* Bowers, Peter M. "Boeing aircraft since 1916". London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1989. ISBN 0-85177-804-6.
* "Pedigree of Champions: Boeing Since 1916, Third Edition". Seattle, WA: The Boeing Company, 1969.

External links

* [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=371 historylink.org: The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History]

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