T-4 Messenger
The Dayton-Wright T-4 Messenger was a light, single-seat reconnaissance aircraft built in the United States by the Dayton-Wright Company in 1918 in the hope of gaining a production contract from the United States Army. It was a small conventional single-bay biplane with a neatly streamlined fuselage and staggered, equal-span wings. The undercarriage was of fixed tailskid type and the pilot sat in an open cockpit. Although diminutive, the design in fact started life as a scaled-up version of the Dayton-Wright Bug and shared a family resemblance to the de Havilland DH.4 that Dayton-Wright was building under licence during World War I. When the US Army was not interested in the aircraft, plans were made to sell it on the civil market, but these came to nothing and the prototype was the only example ever built.
Summary from Wikipedia, photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA.
- Manufacturer
- Dayton-Wright
- Category
- Reconnaissance
Specifications
- Cruise speed
- 74 kt
- Max speed
- 74 kt
- Service ceiling
- 3,000 ft
- Rate of climb
- 180 ft/min
- Max takeoff weight
- 636 lb
- Empty weight
- 385 lb
- Powerplant
- 1 × De Palma V-4 engine
- Engines
- 1
- Seats
- 1
- Length
- 17.5 ft
- Wingspan
- 19.3 ft
- Height
- 6.1 ft
- Number built
- 1
Specifications are approximate and may vary by variant. Compiled from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Reference and training only. Specifications vary by variant — consult the manufacturer and the official documents.