Photograph:
Lovingwayne WR-1 Love N351C at the EAA Museum at Oshkosh, Wisconsin USA (David C Eyre)
Country of origin:
United States of America
Description:
Single-seat light high-performance sporting monoplane
Power Plant:
One 63 kw (85 hp) Continental C-85-8FJ four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 6.10 m (20 ft)
- Length: 5.23 m (17 ft 2½ in)
- Height: 1.35 m (4 ft 5½ in)
- Wing area: 6.13 m² (66 sq ft)
- Max speed: 346 km/h (215 mph)
- Max cruising speed: 274 km/h (170 mph)
- Economical cruising speed: 229 km/h (142 mph)
- Stalling speed: 93 km/h (58 mph)
- Rate of climb at sea level: 640 m/min (2,100 ft/min)
- Service ceiling: 5,490 m (18,000 ft)
- Range: 725 km (450 miles)
- Empty weight: 287 kg (631 lb)
- Loaded weight: 380 kg (839 lb)
History:
The WR-1 Love was a single-seat high performance gull-wing monoplane designed in the 1950s by Neal Loving and built by Wayne Aircraft Co of Detroit, Michigan. It flew for the first time on 7 August 1950 and qualified as a ‘midget racer’ under NAA rules on 18 August 1951. Sets of plans were made available and a number have been built around the world as homebuilts. The fuselage is of welded steel tube with fabric covering, and the wings are of all wood construction with fabric covering. Power was provided by a Continental C-85 engine.
One example (N351C) was flown from Detroit in Michigan to Kingston in Jamaica in the West Indies, covering 3,540 km (2,200 miles) and this aircraft is now part of the EAA AirVenture Museum at Oshkosh in Wisconsin, being presented to the museum by Neal Loving. In 1954, the design was the winner of the Most Outstanding Design award at the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in at Rockford, Illinois. Construction of one was commenced in New Zealand in about 1980 but is not known to have been completed.