title: Wendt WH-1 Traveler
text: # Wendt WH-1 Traveler
  
  The Wendt WH-1 Traveler is an American two-seat homebuilt sporting aircraft designed by Harold Wendt and built by his company Wendt Aircraft Engineering. Plans for the Traveler were available for amateur construction.
  
  ## Design
  
  The WH-1 Traveler is a cantilever low-wing monoplane with a conventional wooden fuselage, the wing is a constant-cord two-spar structure with ailerons but no flaps. The prototype aircraft is powered by a 75 hp (56 kW) Continental A-75 air-cooled engine driving a metal two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller. The Traveler has a fixed tricycle landing gear with a steerable nose-wheel and glassfibre wheel fairings. The pilot and passenger sit in tandem in an enclosed cockpit with a port-hinged canopy with transparent panels at each side, it also had stowage behind the rear-seat for 50 lb (23 kg) of baggage.
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: 2
  * Length: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
  * Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in (9.14 m)
  * Height: 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
  * Wing area: 118 sq ft (10.96 $m^2)$
  * Empty weight: 900 lb (408 kg)
  * Gross weight: 1,400 lb (635 kg)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Continental A-75 four-cylinder, horizontally opposed and air-cooled piston , 75 hp (56 kW)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 131 mph (211 km/h, 114 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 123 mph (198 km/h, 107 kn)
  * Stall speed: 65 mph (105 km/h, 56 kn)
  * Range: 368 mi (592 km, 320 nmi)
  * Service ceiling: 13,000 ft (3,960 m)
  * Rate of climb: 750 ft/min (3.8 m/s)
  