Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq"

The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was not designed as a Sea plane,It was created by Jack Northrup when he was an engineer at Lockheed.It was named Sirius after the brightest star in the sky.It made its first flight in 1929 and Charles Lindbergh was the first customer. In 1931 the aircraft was retrofitted to a seaplane configuration, Charles and Anne Lindbergh flew the Sirius to the Far East that would be described in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's best selling book "North to the Orient".The aircraft was damaged in Hankow and was rebuilt by Lockheed and fitted with a 710-horsepower Wright SR-1839 Cyclone engine.In 1933 the Lindberghs headed accross the North Atlantic on the route that had made Charles a house hold name in 1927. This flight was far more ambitious than Lindbergh's ledgendary New York-to-Paris solo flight,he and his wife would circumnavigate a sizable portion of it looking for potential airline routes. During a refueling stop in Angmagssalik, Greenland,the famous Lockheed recieved a new name which was "TINGMISSARTOQ" the intuit word for "one who flyies like a bird" by a boy in Greenland. This name became famous from that day on.The Linbergh's continued through Europe to Moscow on their much publicized tour,the Sirius carried them on to Africa then accross the South Atlantic to Brazil.Tingmissartoq appeared in the sky over New York on December 19,1933, as the City turned out to greet the Lindberghs. The aircraft just like its crew earned a place in the Golden Age of Aviation history books.

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Specifications:
Lockheed Sirius Tingmissartoq
Dimensions:
Wing span:	42 ft.9.25 inches.
Length:	27 ft. 1in.
Wing Span:	42 ft. 9.25 inches.
Weight:
Max T/O Gross:	2,978 lbs empty 4,600lbs.Fully loaded and fueled.
Performance:
Max Speed:	185 m.p.h.
Cruise Speed:	150 m.p.h.
Range:	975 miles.
Service Ceiling:	20,000 feet.
Powerplant:
One Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial providing 450 hp @ take-off.Latter fitted with a Wright SR-1839 Cyclone engine providing 710 hp.



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