Bellanca TES
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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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101027221244/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732337,00.html Bellanca's Secret, Time, 1929-05-06]
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)
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|ref=Aerofiles : Bellanca,{{cite web |last1=Eckland |first1=K.O. |title=Bellanca |url=http://aerofiles.com/_bella.html |website=aerofiles.com |accessdate=31 May 2019}} Letec : Bellanca TES{{cite journal |title=Bellanca TES |journal=Letec |date=November 1929 |volume=V |issue=11 |pages=582–583 |language=Czech}}
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|capacity=2 pax or relief crew
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|empty weight lb=6990
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|eng1 number=2
|eng1 name=Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp
|eng1 type=9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines
|eng1 hp=425
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References
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= Bibliography =
- Alan Abel and Drina Welch Abel: Bellanca's Golden Age, Stockton : Wild Canyon Books, 2004, {{ISBN|1-891118-46-3}}
External links
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- [http://earlyaviators.com/eshort.htm Page dedicated to Shirley J. Short]
- [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bellanca%20tes Bellanca TES] images from the archive of San Diego Air & Space Museum
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Category:1920s United States experimental aircraft
Category:Twin-engined push-pull aircraft