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    The Menasco Manufacturing Company was an American aircraft engine and component manufacturer. The company was organized by Albert S. Menasco in 1926 to...
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    The Menasco Pirate series are four-cylinder, air-cooled, in-line, inverted aero-engines, built by the Menasco Motors Company of Burbank, California, for...
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    Menasco Buccaneer was a series of popular six-cylinder, air-cooled, in-line, inverted, aero-engines, that were manufactured by Menasco Motors Company...
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    The Menasco Unitwin 2-544 was a coupled piston engine. Menasco Motors Company of Burbank, California was a well known manufacturer of inverted inline...
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    these put them in touch with Whitney Collins, a vice-president at Menasco Motors Company and budding entrepreneur. Collins and Denny estimated it would take...
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    World War II, the Weston Biscuit Company bought the plant in 1947, and in 1970 it was purchased by the Menasco Motors Company to build landing gear. The original...
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  • by the Righter Manufacturing Company, the O-45 was also built by the Kiekhaefer Corporation and the Menasco Motors Company. O-45-1 20 horsepower (15 kW)...
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    engines for the B-17s and PV-2 Harpoons being built in Burbank. Menasco Motors Company in Burbank, built aircraft landing gear for North American, Lockheed...
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    Aeronautical entity. The new company's first aircraft was the S-T Sport Trainer, a low-wing tandem-seat monoplane with a 95 hp (71 kW) Menasco B-4 Pirate straight-4...
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  • Corporation Martin Motors Co Maru Maximotor Maybach — Germany Mayo McCulloch Motors — US McDonnell McDowell Mead Mekker Menasco Motor Company — US Mercedes...
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    The Menasco M-50 was an American four-cylinder horizontally-opposed aircraft engine. The engine was developed from 1937-1938 for use in Aeronca model...
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    and Jane's. Menasco Pirate/Super Pirate Menasco Buccaneer/Super Buccaneer Menasco M-50 Menasco Unitwin 2-544 Menasco-Salmson B-2 Menasco L-365 – Military...
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    two thirds complete. Some of the work had been contracted out to Menasco Motors Company and at the end of the year the entire mechanical side of the project...
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    piston engine. 1,523 built (including Menasco Moths and PT-24). DH.82C-2 Menasco Moth I DH.82C fitted with Menasco D-4 Super Pirate 125 hp inline inverted...
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  • and "Goon" were powered by Menasco Motors Company engines, which he tuned for maximum performance and reliability. Al Menasco took note of Chester's engine...
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    powered by a "well-known American inline motor", which the anonymous Aviation writer assumes to be a Menasco. The 1937 edition of Jane's All the World's...
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  • The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited (/də ˈhævɪlənd/) was a British aviation manufacturer established in late 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland at Stag...
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  • variety of companies beyond Airco themselves; these included F.W. Berwick and Co, Glendower Aircraft Company, Palladium Autocars, Vulcan Motor and Engineering...
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  • rocket motors was completed recently along with the sale of 200 redundant launchers that were in long-term storage. As of January 2010, the company has lost...
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  • new TD bus design under the Canadian Car name to compete with the General Motors New Look model, but it was not successful and production was discontinued...
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    Fleet 1 Special - One aircraft modified as testbed for 95 hp (71 kW) Menasco Pirate B-4. Fleet Model 2 - initial production version with Kinner K-5...
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    existing parts such as motors from the Continental Motors Company and axles built by the Timken Company. Yonash's old company, TEMCO, was contracted to...
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    built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was...
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    h)) Power-to-weight ratio: 0.28 hp/lb (0.45 kW/kg) Comparable engines Menasco M-50 Related lists List of aircraft engines "Continental A-40". Old Rhinebeck...
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    shaped, blunt on the inner edge and fine outboard. Two 125 hp (93 kW) Menasco Pirate C.4 four-cylinder air-cooled inline engines driving two-bladed propellers...
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    small commercial aircraft that was designed and built by the de Havilland company. Following the commercial success of its single-engined de Havilland Fox...
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    Major Comparable engines Argus As 8 ADC Cirrus Alfa Romeo 110 Hirth HM 504 Menasco C4 Related lists List of aircraft engines "A New Small Engine", Flight...
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    covered. It was powered by a 95 hp (71 kW) inverted inline 4-cylinder Menasco B-4 Pirate pusher engine mounted high in the rear of the fuselage. The...
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    from 1917 to 1937. Aerospace supplier Menasco Manufacturing Company would later purchase the property. Menasco's Burbank landing gear factory closed in...
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    (30). Some were converted for civilian use by the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company in 1919. The F5L entered U.S. service at the end of the war and was...
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