Arrow Sport
The Arrow Sport is a two-seat sporting biplane aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
Design and construction
The plane was designed by Swen Swanson and it was of largely conventional configuration with tailskid undercarriage, but was interesting in that the pilot and passenger sat side by side in the open cockpit, and because as originally designed, the fully cantilever wings lacked interplane struts – the upper wing attaching directly to the top of the fuselage. This latter feature proved so alarming to many prospective pilots that the manufacturer later supplied N-type struts that were of no real function other than to allay the aviators' fears.Variants
- Sport – Two-seat sporting biplane, powered by a 60-hp LeBlond radial piston engine.
- Sport 85 – 85 hp Leblond radial, extra four degrees of dihedral on lower wing.
- Sport A2
- * Sport A2-40
- * Sport A2-60 LeBlond radial engines
- * Sport A2-66
- * Sport A2-90 Tangerine
- * Sport A2-100 Kinner C-5
- Sport Pursuit – Improved version, powered by a 100-hp Kinner K-5 radial engine.
- Sport V-8 – Two-seat monoplane version, powered by a converted Ford V8 automobile engine.
- * Sport M – Model F with a Menasco C-4 Pirate engine.
Surviving aircraft
- a Sport Pursuit preserved in the terminal building of the Lincoln Airport in Nebraska, Arrow's city of manufacture, and owned by the Nebraska State Historical Society.
- a Sport preserved at the Dakota Territory Air Museum in North Dakota.
- a Sport A2-60 preserved at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
- a Sport Pursuit is on display at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Oregon.
Specifications (A2-60)