Yackey Monoplane
The Yackey Monoplane was an American three seat parasol monoplane flown in the late 1920s. Two prototypes had some success in the 1927 New York - Spokane National Air Derby and orders were placed but a crash killed its designer and ended production. Design and development The Yackey monoplane had a parasol wing built around two spruce box spars with plywood skinning ahead of the forward spar. It used the popular Clark Y airfoil and had a constant chord with blunt tips. It was braced to the fuselage on pairs of parallel struts to the lower fuselage longerons, and a central, short inverted vee cabane to the top of the fuselage. It was powered by a Wright Whirlwind J-5 9-cylinder radial mounted in the nose with its cylinders exposed for cooling. The fuselage was flat-sided apart from raised upper decking. Both the cockpits were open, with the two passengers placed side-by-side over the wing with entry via full-depth doors. The pilot sat just aft of the wing trailing edge, where a cut-out provided a wider upper field of view. Baggage or mail was placed in a large hold behind the pilot. Its fuselage tapered rearwards to a cropped-triangular fin with