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    The Wright-Bellanca WB-2, was a high wing monoplane aircraft designed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, initially for Wright Aeronautical then later Columbia...
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    The Wright-Bellanca WB-1 was designed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca for the Wright Aeronautical corporation for use in record-breaking flights. The WB-1 was...
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    Bellanca, although it was preceded by previous businesses and partnerships in which aircraft with the Bellanca name were produced, including Wright-Bellanca...
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    final revision of the original late 1920s Wright-Bellanca WB-2 design. The model numbers used by Bellanca in this period reflected the wing area (in...
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    Whirlwind series. In 1925, a Wright-Bellanca airplane won the Pulitzer Trophy Race using a Wright Whirlwind engine. In 1927, a Wright J-5C Whirlwind engine was...
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    1920s. It was a development of the Wright WB-2 that Bellanca had acquired the rights to in 1926 and was the first Bellanca-branded aircraft to gain a type...
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  • Miss Columbia may also refer to: Miss Columbia (WB-2), an airplane, S/N#1, for the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Miss District of Columbia (disambiguation), a beauty...
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    achieved numerous endurance and efficiency records. His $25,000 Wright-Bellanca WB-2 monoplane, Columbia, had been the first choice of Charles Lindbergh...
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    development Ryan M-2 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Bremen Plus Ultra Bird of Paradise Miss Veedol Wright-Bellanca WB-2 The "History Detectives"...
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    endurance flight of 51 hours, 11 minutes, 25 seconds in a single-engined Wright-Bellanca WB-2 over New York City in April 1927. Chamberlin and Charles Levine flew...
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    the Virginia Aviation Museum and has been converted to represent the Bellanca WB-2 Columbia. General characteristics Crew: one pilot Capacity: five passengers...
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  • Bertaud as copilot on their attempt at the Orteig prize in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia. Levine bumped Bertaud from the copilot position, prompting...
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  • Latécoère 26 Levasseur PL.4 Pitcairn PA-2 Sesquiwing Pitcairn PA-3 Orowing Potez 28 Westland Westbury Wright-Bellanca WB-2 c. 1926 – Mitsubishi 2MB1 Spring 1926...
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    Nieuport 12 (redirect from Nieuport 12 A.2)
    designation for Nieuport 80 E.2. Sipowicz 1 Polish experimental aircraft using lifting struts similar to the Wright-Bellanca WB-2.  Argentina Argentine Naval...
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    (1891-1960), from North America (Harbour Grace, NL) to England, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Maple Leaf (aka, Columbia), navigated by the American, Lieut. Harry...
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    Canadian from North America to England was 9–10 October 1930, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Maple Leaf (aka, Columbia), navigated from Harbor Grace (NL) by the...
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  • tiltrotor Bellanca CF single-engine four-seat cabin monoplane Wright-Bellanca WB-2 single-engine cabin transport and distance record aircraft Bellanca CH-300...
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    Katharine Wright Haskell (August 19, 1874 – March 3, 1929) was an American teacher, suffragist, and the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and...
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    eventually setting a transcontinental air record in the Bellanca designed Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia. One Maryland Pressed Steel employee, Lewis E....
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  • 1927 (redirect from Showa 2)
    Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia aircraft Miss Columbia, two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's...
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    but had not won the right to fly the Bellanca to Paris." The "Miss Columbia" was the monoplane Wright-Bellanca WB-2 which Chamberlin would use to break...
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    Catherine Koerner Wright (April 30, 1831 – July 4, 1889) was the mother of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and wife of Milton Wright. She gave birth...
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    (16053)". FAI. 23 Jul 2010. "Platform Aerospace Team (USA) (19576)". FAI. 2 Oct 2021. Black, Patrick (2017-10-26). "Vanilla Aircraft Conducts Record UAS...
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    world's non-refueled endurance record of 51.5 hours in the Bellanca designed WB-2. The WB-2 was renamed the Columbia, and later Miss Columbia. Charles...
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    Milton Wright (November 17, 1828 – April 3, 1917) was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United...
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  • Monoplane (James R Wright, St Clair Shores Michigan, United States) Wright 1933 Biplane Wright-Bellanca WB-1 Wright-Bellanca WB-2 (Harvey C Wright, Iowa City...
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    attempt at the first flight from New York to Paris, France, flying the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia. When Bertaud was displaced to make way for Charles A. Levine...
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    Charles A. Levine, owner of Columbia Aircraft Corp, and the sole Wright-Bellanca WB-2 sought after by pilot Charles Lindbergh, bumped Bertaud from his...
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  • Canadian from North America to England, 9–10 October 1930, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Maple Leaf (aka, Columbia), navigated by the American, Lieut. Harry...
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  • Super Viking Bellanca 7ACA Bellanca 7ECA Bellanca 7GCAA Bellanca 7GCAB Bellanca 7GCBC Scout Bellanca 7KCAB Bellanca 7GCAA Bellanca 7GCAB Bellanca 8GCBC Scout...
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