New Standard D-25
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| Role | Joy-rider, Barnstormer, Crop-Sprayer, Mail Carrier |
| National origin | USA |
| Manufacturer | New Standard Aircraft Company |
| Designer | Charles Healy Day |
| First flight | 1929 |
| Number built | 45 |
| Developed from | Gates-Day GD-24 |
The New Standard D-25 was a 5-seat agricultural and joy-riding aircraft produced in the USA from 1928.
Construction
The D-25 was constructed from Duralumin angles channels and tees bolted and rivetted together for the fuselage and Spruce spars with bass wood and plywood built-up ribs, all fabric covered. The D series was quite distinctive in having sesquiplane wings with the upper wing, of much bigger span and chord, supported on tall cabane and interplane struts.
Operational use
Seating for four passengers was provided in the open front cockpit, described as "chummy", with the pilot in the single seat open rear cockpit. Variations in seating arrangement reflected the role of the different variants. The rugged structure gave the New Standard Ds a long-life, leading to the respectable number that survived the abuse of joy-riding, mail carrying and crop dusting for many years.
Two D-25As that had been confiscated from smugglers were acquired by the US Coast Guard in 1935, designated NT-2.[1]
Variants
- Gates-Day GD-24 - precursor to New Standard D series 3 built.
- New Standard D-24 - production version of GD-24 4 built + 2 converted from GD-24.
- New Standard D-25 - 5-seat "joy-rider"
- New Standard D-25A - 225 hp Wright J-6
- New Standard D-25B - 300 hp Wright J-6 crop-duster produced by White Aircraft Co. 1940
- New Standard D-25C - alternative designation of D-29S
- New Standard D-25X - modified D-25 construction number 203.
- New Standard NT-2 - 2 x D-25 impounded from whiskey smugglers, donated to US Coast Guard.
- New Standard D-26 - 3-seat business/executive transport.
- New Standard D-26A & D-26B - D-26 with 225 hp Wright J-6.
- New Standard D-27 - single seat mail/cargo carrier
- New Standard D-27A - D-27 with night flying equipment
- New Standard D-28 - floatplane conversion of D-26
- New Standard D-30 - floatplane modified D-25
- New Standard D-25 - New production of modified D-25As
Operators
- Alaskan Airways (D-25)[2]
- Clifford Ball Inc. (D-27)[3]
- United States Coast Guard
Specifications (D-25)
Data from Rhinebeck's Joyrider[4]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 4
- Length: 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
- Wingspan: 45 ft 0 in (13.72 m)
- Height: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
- Wing area: 350 ft2 (32.5 m2)
- Empty weight: 2,010 lb (914 kg)
- Gross weight: 3,400 lb (1,550 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Wright J-5, 220 hp (160 kW) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 110 mph (176 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 95 mph (153 km/h)
- Range: 480[5] miles (773 km)
- Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (5.1 m/s)
See also
- Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
References
- Notes
- ↑ Waldo Wright's Newsletter Fourth Quarter 2007, Volume 2, Number 4, Robert G. Lock: Early Aviators Part 3 - Where did the airplanes go after the barnstorming?
- ↑ Clifford Ball (Airlines), New Standard D-27, NC9122 (c/n 114)
- ↑ Levy Aeroplane Monthly August 1989, p. 489.
- ↑ Cruise radius
- Bibliography
- Juptner, Joseph P. (1964). U.S. Civil Aircraft Vol.2. Los Angeles: Aero Publishers. p. 25 to 32.
- Levy, Howard (August 1989). "Rhinebeck's Joyrider". Aeroplane Monthly. Vol. 17 no. 8. pp. 486–489.
- Swanborough, Gordon; Peter M. Bowers (1976). United States Navy Aircraft since 1911 (Second ed.). London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10054-9.
- "New Standard". Aerofiles. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- "New Standard D-25". Holcomb's Aerodrome. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
External links
Media related to New Standard D-25 at Wikimedia Commons