Brown-Young By-1

BY-1
Role	Cabin biplane
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Columbia Aircraft Co., Tulsa OK
Designer	Richard E. Young, Willis Brown
Introduction	1936
Number built	1

The Brown-Young BY-1, also called the Columbia Sesquiplane and the Model 2, was a prototype sesquiplane from Columbia Aircraft Co.

Design and development

Richard E. Young was the inventor of Spiralloy, a directional glass fibre composite material used in high-strength applications. Together with Willis C. Brown he designed and built the BY-1, a four-seat equivalent to the two-seat Luscombe Phantom parasol monoplane.^[1]^{[citation needed]} After completion, a smaller lower wing was mounted below the fuselage, converting it to a sesquiplane with backward staggered wings. The lower wing also housed the retractable landing gear main wheels.^[2]

The wings were fabric covered, while the fuselage was of all-metal construction and supported the non-retractable tailwheel.^[3] A single Jacobs radial engine in the nose drove a two-bladed propeller.

Operational history

The engine from the BY-1 was later installed in the prototype MB-10 trainer. The BY-1 was scrapped at White Rock Airport in Dallas, Texas for materials during the Second World War.^[2]

Specifications (Brown-Young BY-1)

Data from ^[1](aerofile.com)

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Capacity: 3
Powerplant: 1 × Jacobs L-4 Radial, 225 hp (168 kW)
Propellers: 2-bladed

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Aerofiles = Bown-Young". aerofiles.com. 17 April 2009. http://www.aerofiles.com/_bo.html.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Skyways (55): 47. July 2000.
↑ Wood, Peter. "Rocket Science". Archived from the original on 6 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100706062705/http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doc_id=438. Retrieved 7 January 2012.