Republic Aviation Company
Amazing Republic Aviation Corporation
The Republic Aviation Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Farmingdale, New York, on Long Island. Originally known as the Seversky Aircraft Company, the company was responsible for the design and production of many important military aircraft, including its most famous products:
The Seversky Aircraft Company was founded in 1931 by Alexander de Seversky, a Russian expatriate and veteran World War I pilot who had lost a leg in the war. In the beginning, many of Seversky Aircraft's designers were Russian and Georgian engineers, including Michael Gregor and Alexander Kartveli, who would go on to design many of Republic's most famous aircraft. After several failed attempts, Seversky Aircraft finally won a design competition for a new United States Army Air Corps fighter, and was awarded its first military contract in 1936 for the production of its Seversky P-35.[1] In 1939, Seversky Aircraft again entered in a military fighter competition, this time with the much improved AP-4. Unfortunately, the contract was instead awarded to the somewhat inferior Curtiss P-40, but the Army Air Corps were very pleased with the aircraft's medium- and high-altitude performance and ordered 13 additional AP-4s for testing. By April 1939, the Seversky Aircraft Corporation had lost $550,000, and Seversky was forced out of the company he had founded. The board, led by financier Paul Moore, voted W. Wallace Kellett to replace him as president, and in September 1939, the company was reorganized as the Republic Aviation Corporation. Seversky continued to fight for his company, and the matter was not resolved to his satisfaction until September 1942.
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| Formerly | Seversky Aircraft Company |
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| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1931, reorganized as Republic Aviation, 1939 |
| Founder | Alexander de Seversky |
| Defunct | Bought in 1965 by Fairchild Aircraft |
| Fate | Acquired by Fairchild Aircraft |
| Headquarters | Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, United States |
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| Parent | Fairchild Aircraft(1965–1987) |
Republic & Fairchild aircraft current and past.
Republic P-47D Thunderbold - Republic F-84 Thunderjet - Republic F-84F Thunderstreak -
Republic F-84G Thunderflash - Republic F-105 Thunderchief
Fairchild C-82
Fairchild C-119
Fairchild C-123
Fairchild A-10
Fairchild PT-19
Fairchild Dornier Do 228 Fairchild - Swearingen
Metro Merlin - Fairchild Pilgrim
Fairchild AU-23A - Fiarchild 24W
Fairchild 21 - Fairchild 61 FC-2
Waco
Waco Standard Cabin series
The Waco Standard Cabin series is a range of American single-engine 4–5 seat fabric covered cabin biplanes.
Waco Standard Cabin series
All of the Waco Standard Cabins were powered by cowled radial engines and Waco tried to accommodate their customers preferences for many of the more common commercially available engines of the period, hence the profusion of designations, as the first letter indicates the engine installed. Individual models were each certified with various available engines but not all variations found customers.
Fuselage structure was typical for the period, being welded chrome-moly tubing with light wood strips to fair the shape in and covered with fabric. Wings were built around two solid spruce spars with the airfoil formed from trussed ribs made from plywood and spruce. The leading edge was covered in aluminum sheeting and the whole assembly covered in fabric.Ailerons were interconnected with a strut mounted to the trailing edge and on some versions were sheeted with ribbed aluminum. Most models were not fitted with flaps – the VKS-7F, built for the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) being the exception. It was fitted with split flaps only on the undersides of the upper wings and at mid chord, inboard and just ahead of the ailerons. Wing bracing was with a canted N strut joining upper and lower wings, assisted by a single strut bracing the lower wing to the upper fuselage longeron, there being no bracing wires. Elevators and rudder were built up from welded steel tubing braced with wire cables, and both could be trimmed, the elevators in flight and the rudder with a ground adjustable tab. Normally the main undercarriage was made up of a pair of vees, sprung with oleo/spring struts and provided with brakes as standard equipment, and a free-castoring tailwheel sprung with triangulated shock cords. was fitted to most aircraft, although a small number for Brazil were fitted with a tail skid.Floats were also offered as an option, starting with the UIC which had Edo P-3300 floats.[6] Later types (including the UKC, YKC and CJC) were offered with Edo 38-3430 floats
Republic Aviation Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer New York.
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by Republic Aviatio
Republic F-84F Thunderstreak was an American swept-wing turbojet fighter-bomber.
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, straight-wing, attack aircraft
The Waco S Series is a family of American cabin biplanes produced by Waco Company.
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