Photo by Jim Tunney.

Photo by Jim Tunney.

The Fleetwings Model 27 was a private venture radio controlled aerial gunnery target built in 1940 and known as the A-1. It had fabric covered 20ft span wings with split flaps and fabric covered empennage and flight controls. A Continental A65 engine gave a top speed of 180 mph. The radio set was located in a compartment positioned on the center of gravity, so with the equipment removed it could carry a pilot. On 1 April 1940 test pilot William H. Engle took it for a flight from the Aircraft Radio Corporation airfield at Boonton/NJ. Military designation believed to be OQ-1. No further examples were built. Collection holder William Engle is the son of Fleetwings test pilot William H. Engle.

Slide traded with Don Spering in 1972.

slide by Peter C. Mills. - PT-IIQ is shown here a few months after delivery. Obviously, its registration was never changed, but after a last confirmed sighting in 2009 I could no longer find a trace of this Learjet 25C.

The June 1934 American Airlines timetable marketed the company's Condor IIs as 'the world's first complete sleeper-planes'. Overnight flights did not catch on and the AT-32D model was made convertible from 12 berths to 15 seats. The DC-3 started as the Douglas Sleeper Transport, though. Photo by: Charles Phelps Cushin

The Bendix K prototype in its second form, an unreal-looking egg shape. A print of this picture seems to be dated 27 November 1945. By January 1947 NX41817 was in its third form, with an open cockpit.

Bendix Helicopter was formed in 1943. The single-seat, coaxial Model K prototype, NX41817, first flew on 30 June 1945. NX41817 flew as a fully enclosed egg-shape apparently by November 1945 to aid the development of the bigger Model J. Although Bendix Helicopter based itself in Stratford, Connecticut, test-flying seems to have been done at Hadley Field in New Jersey.

Written off May 6, 1982. Crashed into Atlantic Ocean near Savannah after uncontrolled descent en route Teterboro - Orlando.

Was apparently operated by Zantop, but apart from the registration there are no marks to prove it.

(photographer unknown)