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The Rider R-6 was the last of the Keith Rider designed racing aircraft of the 1930s.[1]

R-6 "Eight Ball"
Role Racing aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Union Aircraft Company
Designer Keith Rider
Introduction 1938
Number built 1

Development


The R-6 eightball had smooth plywood skins painted light blue with a large eight ball on each side. The actual racing number for the aircraft was 18. It was the last of the Rider racers, as well as the first and last of Rider's new company Union Aircraft Company before World War II intervened, stopping the National Air Races.


Design


The R-6 is a single place, all-wood low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear.[2] The first wing used was a long thin wing about 20 ft long with hydraulic landing gear.[3] For the 1939 races, a new wing was installed that was nearly elliptical in shape and a light weight worm-gear manually retractable mechanism replaced the hydraulics.[4]


Operational history



On Display


The Eight Ball was restored and is on display at the Planes of Fame museum in Chino, California, along with the R-4 Firecracker.[7] In 1991, the R-6 was displayed at the EAA Airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin as part of a "Golden Age of Air Racing" program.[8]


Specifications (Rider R-6)


Data from Sport Aviation

General characteristics

Performance


Notes


  1. Racing Planes and Air Races: 1932-1939. Aero Publishers. 1969.
  2. John Underwood. Grand Central Air Terminal. p. 76.
  3. Don Berliner (March 1957). Experimenter. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Sport Aviation: 45. August 1989. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "1938 NAR". Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  6. Don Berliner (March 1957). Experimenter. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "Eight Ball". Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  8. Sport Aviation: 8. September 1991. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

References



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Il Rider R-6 "Eight Ball" è un aereo da competizione progettato e costruito per partecipare alle National Air Races statunitensi tenutesi nella seconda metà degli anni trenta.



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