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The Tailwind is the third in a series of high-wing aircraft designed by Sylvester J. "Steve" Wittman (1904–1995), a well-known air racing pilot and race plane designer, who also played an important role in the emergence of homebuilt aircraft with the Wittman Tailwind and other designs in the United States. [2]
On April 27, 1995, Wittman and Muir took off for a routine cross-country flight from their winter residence in Ocala, Florida, to their summer residence in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Wittman "O&O" N41SW (41 for 1941, year of his first marriage, plus SW, his initials) crashed five miles south of Stevenson, Alabama, killing both Wittman and Muir ...
(Steve J. Wittman) Wittman Tailwind; Wittman Midwing; Wittman Big X; Wittman Chief Oshkosh; Wittman Buster; Wittman Hardly-Ableson [41] Wittman 0&0 Special [41 ...
Wittman Tailwind; V. Wittman V-Witt This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 19:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Stewart is also in the process of having a completely composite-built carbon-fiber biplane designed and built for him. Called the P3 Revolution Biplane, it is scheduled to debut in 2014. He has also built a Wittman Tailwind W-10 from scratch, later selling it to buy a 1964 Twin Comanche. He also ran an aerobatic flight school for two years in ...
The aircraft shape was influenced by the Beechcraft Staggerwing and Wittman Tailwind. The name came from the college of Nesmith's daughter, the University of Houston , whose athletic mascot is a cougar .
Wittman designed the four-place "Big X" soon afterward. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When Fairchild did not follow up on production offers, Wittman was contacted by Cessna in Wichita, Kansas , to demonstrate the lightweight and strong spring steel landing gear of the Big X. Cessna bought the plane and its production rights in order to use the gear on its new ...
Wittman Chief Oshkosh N14855 - built 1931; Wittman Tailwind N314T - built 1962; See also. List of aerospace museums; References External links. Official website ...