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SGU 1-19 has a 36 foot 8 inch wing span, empty weight of 320 pounds and is fabric covered with fuselage of steel tubing and 2-spar, strut-braced wooden rib wing.

Sister craft of the SGU 1-19 is the SGU 2-22, Schweizer contribution to the field of two-place utilities. 43 foot metal wing with fabric covering, fuselage and tail of steel tube with fabric surface, this ship is of high performance, at present holding American records for distance, altitude and duration (SSA).

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City of Utica
Another two-place utility of note is the "City of Utica", designed by Stanley Smith and built by the Aviation Ground School, Utica, New York. This two-place, side-by-side craft has been seen many times at soaring contests. With a 45 foot straight wing and of standard steel frame with fabric cover, this craft has a cruising speed of around 35 miles per hour.

The PRATT-READ Co. of Connecticut has a two-place side-by-side utility with a wing span of 54 feet 6 inches. The fuselage is partly constructed of steel tube and partly of plywood tube with wings and tail of wood frame. The empty weight of this craft is about 800 pounds. The Navy will fly craft built by this company in the contest this year. 

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ABC
Between the Utility and the Sailplane is a general classification generally termed the intermediate Sailplane. In this class is found the ABC, winner of the Eaton design competition of 1937. This is a single-place craft designed and built by Arthur Schultz at Berkley, Michigan. It has a strut-braced 48 foot wing, a fuselage frame well formed to streamline shape by steel tubing and fabric covering. The 300 pound craft has wheel type control and a cruising speed of about 35 miles per hour. 

Types of Craft
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Baby Albatross
The Baby Albatross of W. Hawley Bowlus has a wing-spread of 44 feet and a pod-shaped nacelle to which the tail surface and rudder are connected by a metal boom. Although this is a utility, it held the American distance record in 1939 with a flight of 263 miles, Texas to Kansas. The big brother of this plane, the Super Albatross, has the same wingspread and similar design features but is of higher performance and classed as a Sailplane. The Albatross I, constructed by Bowlus in 1931, was the first proven American sailplane. This craft was constructed of a plywood skin over wooden frame and with fabric wing covering. Outstanding for its high performance in the early days of American soaring.

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RS-I
The Ross-Stephens sailplane took second place in the Eaton design contest of 1937. Produced by the Ross-Stephens Aircraft Company of California, it has a 46 foot full cantilever gull wing well faired into a skin-stressed plywood fuselage. The total weight is 285 pounds and the cruising speed about 48 miles. John Robinson is expected to make the defense of his championship in a craft of this type. 

The CUMULUS Sailplane was designed and built by Stephen W. Smith at Bridgeport, Conn. An intermediate sailplane of spruce and mahogany plywood construction, it has a 46 foot full cantilever monospar wing and a cruising speed of about 45 miles per hour. It is a very clean, well-performing craft.