Lawson L-2
{{Short description|1920s American biplane airliner}}
{{Infobox aircraft
|name = L-2
|image = Lawson T-2.jpg
|caption = Lawson C.2 or T-2
|type = Biplane airliner
|manufacturer = Lawson Air Line Company
|designer = Alfred Lawson,{{cite web |url=http://dev.eaa838.org/museum.asp |title=Welcome to EAA Chapter 838 |access-date=2012-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708030755/http://dev.eaa838.org/museum.asp |archive-date=2012-07-08 }} Vincent Burnelli{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/23/archives/vincent-j-burnelli-dead-at-69-an-early-designer-of-airplanes.html | title=Vincent J. Burnelli Dead at 69; an Early Designer of Airplanes | newspaper=The New York Times | date=23 June 1964 }}
|first_flight = 1920
|introduction =
|retired =
|status =
|primary_user = Lawson Air Line Company
|more_users =
|produced =
|number_built = 1
|developed_from =
|variants =
}}
The Lawson L-2 was a 1920s American biplane airliner, designed and built by the Lawson Air Line Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Design and development
File:Lawson C1 Plans -1919.jpg
The Lawson Air Line Company designed and built a series of large biplane airliners for use on its planned airline routes. The initial Lawson "Aerial Transport" Lawson C1 or T-1 was built early in 1919 to demonstrate that a large commercial passenger plane could be built. The L-1 was a single pilot, 10 passenger biplane with twin Liberty 400 hp pusher engines. It was followed by the Lawson C.2 or L-2. The L-2 was a tractor biplane also with 400 hp engines, capable of carrying 26 passengers, and piloted by two pilots, with differential controls.{{cite journal|journal=Air Progress|date=November 1978|page=16}}
Mr. Lawson took it on a 2000-mile multi-city tour to advocate commercial air travel.{{cite journal|author=The Royal Aero Club of the UK|title=The Lawson Aerial Transport|journal=Flight- the Aircraft Engineer & Airship Weekly|date=Sep 11, 1919|volume=XI|series=37|issue=559|pages=1220–1222}}
Some sources state Mr. Lawson himself as the sole designer; others mention involvement of Vincent Burnelli.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/23/archives/vincent-j-burnelli-dead-at-69-an-early-designer-of-airplanes.html | title=Vincent J. Burnelli Dead at 69; an Early Designer of Airplanes | newspaper=The New York Times | date=23 June 1964 }}
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Operators
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Specifications (L-2)
{{Aircraft specs
|prime units? = imp
|capacity=10
|span m=27.74
|span ft=91
|span in=0
|gross weight kg=5897
|gross weight lb=13,000
|eng1 number=2
|eng1 name=Liberty L-12 piston engine
|eng1 kw=298
|eng1 hp=400
|max speed kmh=161
|max speed mph=100
}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985)|publisher= Orbis Publishing}}
External links
{{commons category|Lawson L-2}}
- {{cite journal |date=September 11, 1919 |title=The "Lawson" Aerial Transport |format=PDF |journal=Flight |volume=XI |issue=37 |id=No. 559 |pages=1220–1222 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%201218.html |access-date=January 12, 2011 }} Contemporary technical description of the Lawson C-1 and C-2 (early versions of the L-2) with scale drawings of the C-1 and photographs of the C-2.
Category:1920s United States airliners