Bellanca TES

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TES/Blue Streak
Bellanca TES 1.jpg
RoleDistance record aircraft
Manufacturer Bellanca Aircraft Corporation
Designer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
First flight1929
Retired1931
Statuscrashed
Number built1
Rear view of the ill-fated TES Bellanca TES 3.jpg
Rear view of the ill-fated TES

The Bellanca TES (Tandem Experimental Sesquiplane) or Blue Streak was a push-pull sesquiplane aircraft designed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca in 1929 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo. [1]

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In 1930 it was refitted with two 600 hp Curtiss Conqueror engines and reinforced for the Chicago Daily News as a cargo plane named The Blue Streak. The aircraft crashed on 26 May, 1931 when the rear propeller driveshaft broke due to vibration and all four on board lost their lives.

Specifications (with Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines)

Data from Aerofiles : Bellanca, [2] Letec : Bellanca TES [3]

General characteristics

2x 600 hp (450 kW) Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror later

Performance

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References

  1. Bellanca's Secret, Time, 1929-05-06
  2. Eckland, K.O. "Bellanca". aerofiles.com. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  3. "Bellanca TES". Letec (in Czech). V (11): 582–583. November 1929.

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