Arrow Model F

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Model F
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RoleRecreational aircraft
Manufacturer Arrow Aircraft and Motor Corporation
First flight1934
Number built103

The Arrow Model F or the Arrow Sport V-8 was a two-seat low-wing braced monoplane aircraft built in the United States between 1934 and 1938. It was built originally to a request by the US Bureau of Air Commerce to investigate the feasibility of using automobile engines to power aircraft. Accordingly, the Model F was fitted with a modified Ford V8 engine. Like the Arrow Sport before it, the Model F seated its pilot and passenger side-by-side in an open cockpit and was marketed for $1500. [1]

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Development

The Arrow Sport F was specifically built to accommodate the low-cost, yet heavy Arrow F V-8 engine, an aircraft modification of the Ford V-8. The engine was designed by Ford Engineer David E. Anderson with an aluminum oil pan, aluminum cylinders, and a 2:1 gear reduction to drive the prop at reasonable rpm ranges. The engine weighed 402 lbs for 85 hp vrs 182 lbs for an equivalent Continental aircraft engine. [2]

Variants

Survivors

Specifications

Data from American Airplanes and Engines for 1938 [9]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

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  2. Sport Aviation. 5 May 1958.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Air Trails: 24. Summer 1971.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Trade-a-Plane: "1938 Arrow Sport M"
  5. May, Joseph (2 September 2012). "Arrow Sport Model F in SFO's Terminal 3". Seattle PI. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  6. Ogden, Eloise (December 1, 2017). "North Dakota residents rebuild and model biplane for museum". Seattle Times .
  7. Trade-a-Plane: "1938 Arrow Sport M"
  8. "Aircraft of the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum".
  9. Aviation February 1938, pp. 36–37.

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