Wicko GM1 NZ 580 1939 to 1942
Design:
G N Winkler
Company:
Foster – Winkler
Wing Span:
34 ft 6 in
Wing Area:
153.0 sq Ft 14.25 sq M
Length:
23 ft 3 in 7.09 M
Height:
7 ft 6 in
Ceiling:
20,000 ft
Speed:
140 MPH 224 KPH
Range:
500 Miles 800 Km
T/O Weight:
2,000 lb 908 Kg
Crew:
1 Pilot
1 Passenger
Role:
Light Comms
Total Manufactured:
15 All Mks
First Flight:
Sep 1936
Armament:
Nil
Qty Served:
1
Years Served:
1939 to Nov 1942
Tail Nos:
NZ 580
ENGINE:
Type:
Gipsy Major 1
4 cylinder, inverted, in line, air cooled
Bore:
4.646 in 118 mm
Stroke:
5.512 in 140 mm
Volume:
373 Cu In 6.124 L
Compression Ratio:
5.2 : 1
Horse Power:
120 HP
Max RPM:
2,300 RPM
Fuel:
73 Octane
Oil:
O M D 370
Length:
48.3 in 1,227 mm
Width:
20 in 508 mm
Height:
29.6 in 752 mm
Weight:
298 Lb 136 kg
Power to Weight Ratio:
0.48 hp/lb 0.78 KW/Kg
NZ 580
Constructors No 03
the third Wicko to be built and the
Only one known to be exported
First flight 30 Jun 1938
U K C of A issued 10 Aug 1938
Imported for Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club
Arrived at Wellington on S S Remuera 30 Sep 1938
Assembled at Bridge Pa Airfield
First N Z Flight 10 Oct 1938
Registered ZK – AGN 10 Oct 1938
To Clyde Engineering Co Ltd
To Middle Districts Aero Club Aug 1939
Impressed into RNZAF
Cost 600.00.00 pound [$1,200] 6 Oct 1939
To Communications Flight Rongotai
Struck a radio mast near Johnsonville,
Wellington
In low cloud and rain, crashed into
An orchard 0600 on 26 Nov 1942
Retrieved To Rongotai
Written off 31 Dec 1942
Un-sourced photos ex Ohakea Museum
with thanks to son-of-satire for the banner
Thanks for focusing info @len.george
Eventually, I hope to have the older history of the RNZAF on here,
Thanks for your interest.
In Russia there is an AN-2 airplane they are very similar to Wicko GM1
In the earlier days of aircraft design, there was a lot of copying or seeing how somebody else solved a problem.
I have heard that the USSR had an exact, reversed, copy of the DC 3. The back door was on the other side. Made from photos of the blueprints was the story I heard.
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Hi there Len.George!
I have talked with Trevor in the past, and we are working on creating a table of contents generator. We would like this to be useful for you, but to do that we have to understand how you are organizing these posts.
The Table of Contents Generator is currently up, with a tag filter, but we are currently working on a filter by words in the title, which seems like it would be move useful to you. Any thoughts from you would be well recieved!
Tell me in 80-years old's language, if you mean the tag thingies in the little box under the post,
History, rnzaf, aircraft, kiwi.
if not, please explain.
The idea was that if anybody wanted RNZAF info it was all under that tag/name/thingie.
Most of the other posts have history, kiwi, life, in the line somewhere.
I am all for it, just tell me what to do
Yes! Currently our filter works with the tag thingies! If you wanted to make a table of contents with all the posts tagged RNZAF, you can do it with this tool.
My mother said my post was too technical, and so she made this post explaining it.
I noticed that some of the posts in the RNZAF tag are sub series, De Havilland Tiger Moth, for example has 7 parts. We are working on adding another filter, for titles. I'll let you know when that is up, but basically you would first add a filter for the rnzaf tag and then add a filter for, say, Tiger Moth.
I also want to add a button that flips the list, so instead of newest to oldest, as the steem feed goes, you could flip the switch and have Part 1 to Part 7 in the right order.
Its a work in progress, we are still futzing with it, and although I think it will be useful to you now to a certain degree, I would appreciate an 80-year old's review of the tool and any and all commentary that comes out of that!
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Sounds good. What do I do next?
Well, try clicking this link and see if you can copy and paste something useful into your next post.
I ran into the size of a post problem, hence the many parts.
Yeah these posts have a lot of information!
Had a look at Mum's post, I think I know what to do now, will have a go tonight and see what happens. Thanks for your help and patience.
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I think it worked, Thank you and your Mum.
Nice model of aircraft. very informative post.
Thanh you for your comment