Bellanca TES
| TES/Blue Streak | |
|---|---|
| |
| Role | Distance record aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Bellanca Aircraft Corporation |
| Designer | Giuseppe Mario Bellanca |
| First flight | 1929 |
| Retired | 1931 |
| Status | crashed |
| Number built | 1 |
The Bellanca TES (Tandem Experimental Sesquiplane) or Blue Streak was a push-pull sesquiplane aircraft designed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca in 1929 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo.[1]
In 1930 it was refitted with two 600 hp Curtiss Conqueror engines and reinforced for the Chicago Daily News as a cargo plane named The Blue Streak. The aircraft crashed on 26 May, 1931 when the rear propeller driveshaft broke due to vibration and all four on board lost their lives.
Specifications (with Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines)
Data from [2]
General characteristics
- Crew: four
Performance
- Endurance: up to 100 hours
References
- ^ Bellanca's Secret, Time, 1929-05-06
- ^ Letec magazine, volume V, issue 11, page 582-583, November 1929, in Czech
Bibliography
- Alan Abel and Drina Welch Abel: Bellanca's Golden Age, Stockton : Wild Canyon Books, 2004, ISBN 1-891118-46-3
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bellanca TES.
- Page dedicated to Shirley J. Short
- Bellanca TES images from the archive of San Diego Air & Space Museum