Wendt WH-1 Traveler

WH-1 Traveler
Role	Two-seat homebuilt sporting aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Wendt Aircraft Engineering
Designer	Harold Wendt
First flight	15 March 1972
Number built	1

The Wendt WH-1 Traveler is an American two-seat homebuilt sporting aircraft designed by Harold Wendt and built by his company Wendt Aircraft Engineering.^[1][2] Plans for the Traveler were available for amateur construction.^[2]

Design

The WH-1 Traveler is a cantilever low-wing monoplane with a conventional wooden fuselage, the wing is a constant-cord two-spar structure with ailerons but no flaps.^[2] The prototype aircraft is powered by a 75 hp (56 kW) Continental A-75 air-cooled engine driving a metal two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller.^[2] The Traveler has a fixed tricycle landing gear with a steerable nose-wheel and glassfibre wheel fairings.^[2] The pilot and passenger sit in tandem in an enclosed cockpit with a port-hinged canopy with transparent panels at each side, it also had stowage behind the rear-seat for 50 lb (23 kg) of baggage.^[2]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
• Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in (9.14 m)
• Height: 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
• Wing area: 118 ft² (10.96 m²)
• Empty weight: 900 lb (408 kg)
• Gross weight: 1400 lb (635 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental A-75 four-cylinder, horizontally opposed and air-cooled piston, 75 hp (56 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 131 mph (211 km/h)
• Cruise speed: 123 mph (198 km/h)
• Stall speed: 65 mph (105 km/h)
• Range: 368 miles (592 km)
• Service ceiling: 13000 ft (3960 m)
• Rate of climb: 750 ft/min ( m/s)

References

Notes

1. Sports Planes. September 1973. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. Taylor 1973, p. 458

Bibliography

• Taylor, ed. (1973). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74. London, United Kingdom: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-354-00117-5. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)