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The Hammond 100 Sportster was a

Design and development
In the early 1930s Dean Hammond acquired rights to the Ryan Speedster, itself a development of the Parks 2A. A long period of flight testing by both experienced and inexperienced pilots led to improved handling and an aircraft which was safer and easier to land.

The wings of the Sportster were rectangular in plan out to rounded tips and were built around twin spars. It was a single bay biplane with no stagger, its wings braced together with N-form struts between the spars. Outward-leaning N-form cabane struts supported the wing centre section above the fuselage. It had externally interconnected ailerons on both upper and lower wings which were large enough to retain control when the wings were stalled.

The Sportster was powered by a 100 hp Kinner K-5 radial engine under a narrow chord, Townsend type cowling. Behind it, two <<cocpits..