Donald Arthur Luscombe
Donald Arthur Luscombe was born in Iowa City, Iowa, United States on May 25th, 1895 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 69, Donald Arthur Luscombe biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Donald Arthur Luscombe (May 25, 1895-January 10, 1965) was an American businessman and entrepreneur.
He is best known as the designer of Luscombe Aircraft, which produced a modern sheet-metal-fuselage light aircraft in the United States between 1930-1950.
Aviation career
Luscombe's first aeroplane ride in a French Voisin III was in France. After returning to the United States, he began a career in advertising in Davenport, Iowa, and purchased a Curtiss JN-4, which he learned to fly. Luscombe was compelled to envision a new configuration with enclosed cockpit and side-by-side seating for Jenny's open cockpit and tandem seating arrangements.
Luscombe, a business associate, consulted with him to form the Central States Aero Company, Inc., to promote the belief. Clayton Folkerts, a young Iowa farmer, was hired by the clients to design and build the aircraft, which they referred to as Monocoupe. The first example appeared in 1927, a light, fast, comfortable two-seater, and the start of a significant change in personal aviation in the United States, the tiny, enclosed "personal" light plane, which is well-suited for comfortable cross-country travel.
Luscombe's first book, Simplified Flying, was published in 1928.
In 1933, he left the Monocoupe company (owned by Lambert Aircraft Corporation at the time) and relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, where the Luscombe Airplane Development Corporation, a Missouri-based monocoque fuselage manufacturer, was founded. When World War II came, the company revived light aircraft manufacturing, but his factory was forced to fail due to a shortage of surplus aircraft. Temco acquired the company's assets, but Luscombe did not remain in the company.