Based on the airframe pictures in your other post and the power/weight ratio you list here, that plane must have weighed next to nothing!
Based on the airframe pictures in your other post and the power/weight ratio you list here, that plane must have weighed next to nothing!
Another, later thought. The power to weigh ratio is the bare engine pwr/wt. The engine could have been fitted into almost anything, so the manufacturers specs could not be worked out that way.
These were the early aluminium frames that were starting to replace wood frames. The weight of the airframe isn't given because the internal fittings could and did change. The engine would have been half the weight at a guess.
That does make more sense given my quick number crunch, but I know those aluminum airframes can't have weighed more than a couple hundred pounds at most all together.
as you can see four of us were doing the pushing getting it onto the truck. The tyres were flatter than they look. Jim wasn't doing much. The tail was lifted by one man on to the back of the truck.
The 626 was unique for N Z, the rear seat came out and a 'battle stretcher' could be wriggled in through the hole, mounted on runners that stretched the length of the forward fuselarge, and tied down. The rear seat was then refitted and the casuality could be flown to safety.