Bert Kinner
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Winfield Bertrum "Bert" Kinner was an American aircraft engine designer and designer of the first folding wing aircraft. Kinner founded Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation in Glendale, California, whi
Winfield Bertrum Kinner
L–R: Neta Snook, Earhart's Kinner Airster and Amelia Earhart, c. 1921
Kinner Airster
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The Kinner Airster is an American two-seat single-engined biplane designed by Bert Kinner and built by his Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation.
Bert Kinner
…instruction for a prospective training school. At the Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation, he began to design his first small, light aircraft called the Kinner Airster. The tiny biplane was powered by a three-cylinder Lawrence L2 engine that put out 60 hp. In 1923, Kinner moved his airplane and engine manufacturing…
Kinner Airster photo from Aero Digest September 1926