Loving WR-1 Love
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| WR-1 Love | |
|---|---|
 The WR-1 on display | |
| General information | |
| Type | Racing aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Wayne Aircraft Company |
| Designer | Neil Loving |
| History | |
| First flight | 7 August 1950[1] |
The Loving/Wayne WR-1 Love is a single seat, midget racer built in the 1950s.[2]
The WR-1 is a single place, gull-winged aircraft with conventional landing gear. The fuselage uses wood truss construction with aircraft fabric covering. The all-wood, plywood covered gull-wing features faired, fixed landing gear at the lowest point. The design was submitted and approved by the professional racing pilots association in 1948 with construction starting in January 1949.[3]
Operational history
In the 1951 National Air Races pilot Neal Vernon Loving qualified with a 266 mph (428 km/h) dive. The aircraft's spinner separated, damaging the propeller.[4]
In December 1953, Loving flew the WR-1 2200 miles from Detroit to Kingston, Jamaica, an unusually long trip for a new experimental design of the era.[5]
In 1954, the design was the winner of the Most Outstanding Design award at the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in at Rockford, Illinois.
