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At Wright Field to see if there was any potential interest. There was none, so the 5/6-14 never left the drawing board. The next idea was for a single-seat small cargo glider. A. in prewar years. S. Adams, Du Pont's group had developed a pick-up system allowing aeroplanes to snatch packages off the ground. S. Postal Service had been using the system since 1939 to collect mail from scattered rural communities in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The mail bag was set up ready, with a towline suspended between two light poles.
A large wheel was fitted with a wooden, rubber-sprung forward skid. Wherever possible, parts were made interchangeable to permit easy assembly and replacement. We recognised the limitations of single-seat training, but wanted to get the 1-19 into production. A. type approval was completed in 1945. After the original ten gliders had been completed, in January 1946, a run of parts was made for a hundred and a release issued to build forty sailplanes and kits. In production, each wing panel could be assembled from parts in eight man-hours, plus covering.
Asked us to design a new two-seat ground, and most susceptible to winds and wind gusts. They would also be incompatible with the glider which would use as much wood as possible, aircraft that might be used for towing. Aeroplanes of to avoid further pressure on supplies of alloy. The technical experts at Wright Field also wanted better the necessary power would probably not be capable of flying at the low airspeeds required. The more we visibility for the instructor than was possible in the studied the proposals the more sceptical we became.