Whitman Model W Buttercup (N18268)
This highly advanced design of 1937 featured a variable-camber wing, an idea just coming into use on commercial airliners. Steve Whittman used this aircraft as a flying experimental testbed for 50 years. Engine was a Continental C-85.
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Whitman Model W Buttercup (N18268)
This highly advanced design of 1937 featured a variable-camber wing, an idea just coming into use on commercial airliners. Steve Whittman used this aircraft as a flying experimental testbed for 50 years. Engine was a Continental C-85.
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Uploaded on April 4, 2012
Taken on September 24, 2010