Cox-Klemin XA-1

[Duggy009]

The XA-1 was designed as an ambulance aircraft to replace modified de Havilland DH.4 aircraft with the United States Army Air Service. The XA-1 was a biplane powered by a 420 hp (313 kW) Liberty 12A engine with a fixed conventional landing gear, it had a crew of two and room for two stretchers. Two prototype aircraft designated XA-1 (A-1 was the first allocation in the army air services ambulance designation system) were flown but no further aircraft were built.
In April 1927 after a tornado struck the town of Rocksprings Texas, the Army sent eighteen DH-4 observation planes, two Douglas transports, and a Cox Klemin, who flew in supplies and physicians, to treat 200 injured citizens.
Some of the more seriously injured being flown out by the XA-1 to San Antonio.


Crew: 2
Capacity: 2 litters
Length: 30 ft 8 in (9.35 m)
Wingspan: 44 ft 0 in (13.41 m)
Powerplant: 1 × Liberty L-12A V-12 liquid-cooled piston engine, 420 hp (310 kW)

Performance

Maximum speed: 121 mph (195 km/h; 105 kn)









SOME NEAT FOOTAGE http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675 ... -takes-off

[Michel Lemieux]

Would you not have put the head towards the front of the craft?

Not too got if you are wounded and have to wait in the plane on the ground for an hour!!!

Could be just a demo pic done by the pilots