The Church Midwing JC-1
, a.k.a. Church Mid-Wing Sport, is a midwing racing aircraft designed by James Church using the fuselage of a Heath aircraft. The Church Midwing JC-1 have open cockpit midwing aircraft featured windows in the wings for visibility downward.
Built to be a pylon racer, a Church Midwing placed third in the 1930 National Air Races. The Church used many parts from the Heath Parasol design. In 1931 the prototype was modified with an installation of a 38 hp inline air-cooled Church designed engine and a cowling modification to accommodate the cylinders protruding upward in the pilot’s line of sight. A 1931 advertisement placed by Heath in Popular Mechanics extolled the virtues of its first-place finish with its parasol configuration, compared to the Church’s midwing planform.
Specifications Church Midwing JC-1
- Length: 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m)
- Wingspan: 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m)
- Wing area: 110 sq ft (10 m2)
- Empty weight: 367 lb (166 kg)
- Gross weight: 584 lb (265 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 4.5 Gal (17 litres)
- Powerplant: 1 × Heath-Henderson B-4 Inline 4 cylnder, 27 hp (20 kW)
- Maximum speed: 78 kn (90 mph, 140 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 61 kn (70 mph, 110 km/h)
- Stall speed: 24 kn (28 mph, 45 km/h)
