Hall-Aluminum Aircraft: the company and the aircraft that made its name
Aluminium in the blood
Charles Ward Hall was the son of Charles Martin Hall, who had invented the process for mass-producing aluminium and founded the firm that became Alcoa. The son made aluminium aircraft. After experimental work that included an all-metal version of the Curtiss TS-1 fighter, he founded the Hall-Aluminum Aircraft company in Buffalo, New York, in 1927, and by 1934 had moved into the former Keystone Aircraft plant at Bristol, Pennsylvania. His structures used flanged closed aluminium tubing and monocoque fuselages.
The PH flying boats
Hall’s lasting product was the PH patrol flying boat. The XPH-1 first flew in December 1929, nine PH-1s went to Navy squadron VP-8 from 1932 until the PBY Catalina replaced them in 1937, and the Coast Guard bought seven PH-2s and seven PH-3s. These were the last biplane patrol aircraft in US service; after Pearl Harbor the Coast Guard armed them for anti-submarine patrols and flew them until 1944. Prototypes included the XFH-1 fighter, the XPTBH torpedo-bomber and the four-engine XP2H-1, which flew non-stop from Norfolk to Panama in 25 hours 15 minutes in 1935.
Monoped and Consolidated
Hall himself died on 21 August 1936, according to HistoryNet in the crash of his Monoped, an experimental single-wheel design. His company built 29 aircraft in about 15 years. In 1940 Consolidated Aircraft bought Hall-Aluminum, took its assets, patents and many of its staff, and dissolved the company. Among the 29 were two Curtiss-Hall F4C-1 fighters, all-aluminium versions of the TS-1 that weighed 300 pounds less than the wooden original. The last of the Navy’s PH-1s was surveyed in February 1941, after 2,121 flight hours.
Hall-Aluminum Aircraft in numbers
公司
- 简而言之
- Founded 1927
- Founded in Buffalo by Charles Ward Hall, son of Alcoa’s founder
- Moved to the ex-Keystone plant at Bristol, Pennsylvania, by 1934
- Bought and dissolved by Consolidated, 1940
生产
- 最出名的是
- 霍尔PH水上飞机
- 24 PH series for the Navy and Coast Guard
- 29 aircraft in total
- Prototypes XFH-1, XP2H-1, XPTBH
今天
- 现在
- 已停业
- Assets and patents absorbed by Consolidated
这些数字
- PH flying boats built
- 24
- Total aircraft built
- 29
- PH-1 unit price
- 53,778 US dollars
Every notable Hall-Aluminum Aircraft aircraft
| 飞机 | 角色 | 首航 | 建造 | 地位 | 笔记 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curtiss-Hall F4C-1 | 战斗机 | 2 | 已退休 | Aluminium version of the TS-1, 300 lb lighter | |
| Hall XFH-1 | Shipboard fighter | 1929 | 1 | 已退休 | Watertight fuselage |
| Hall PH-1 | 巡逻水上飞机 | 1929 | 9 | 已退休 | VP-8, San Diego; XPH-1 prototype flew December 1929 |
| Hall PH-2 | Coast Guard rescue flying boat | 7 | 已退休 | ||
| Hall PH-3 | Coast Guard patrol flying boat | 7 | 已退休 | Armed for anti-submarine patrols in WWII | |
| Hall XP2H-1 | Four-engine patrol flying boat | 1932 | 1 | 已退休 | Norfolk to Panama non-stop, 25 h 15 min, 1935 |
| Hall XPTBH-2 | Torpedo-bomber floatplane | 1 | 已退休 | Twin-float monoplane |
Hall-Aluminum Aircraft aircraft in the world’s air forces
1 air forces in the Order of Battle fly or flew Hall-Aluminum Aircraft types. 其中 0 辆仍在服役。.
| 空军 | 在服役 | 以前飞过 |
|---|---|---|
| 美国海岸警卫队航空 | 霍尔PH-2/PH-3和通用航空PJ-1/2水上飞机 |
Where Hall-Aluminum Aircraft built, who led it, what it achieved
工厂
- Buffalo works · Buffalo, New York — Founding location, 1927
- Bristol works · Bristol, Pennsylvania — Former Keystone Aircraft plant, by 1934
人们
- Charles Ward Hall · founder, engineer — Son of Alcoa founder Charles Martin Hall
纪录和第一
- XP2H-1 non-stop Norfolk to Panama in 25 hours 15 minutes, 1935
- PH series were the last biplane patrol aircraft in US service
Hall-Aluminum Aircraft, year by year
Company founded in Buffalo
XPH-1 first flight
PH-1 deliveries to the Navy begin
XP2H-1 first flight
Operating from the ex-Keystone plant at Bristol, Pennsylvania
XP2H-1 flies non-stop Norfolk to Panama
Charles Ward Hall dies
Navy PH-1s replaced by PBY Catalinas
Consolidated buys and dissolves the company
Coast Guard retires its last PHs
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