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    John, there's a profile for that in the Electric Aircraft section of the showcase.
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    More information about "Club ULM Rotor Ptenets-2"
    The Club ULM Rotor Ptenets-2 (Russian: Птенец-2, English: Chick or Fledgling) is a Russian ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Club ULM Rotor of Kumertau, Bashkortostan. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly. The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. The aircraft is made from aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. The fuselage is made from fibreglass. Its 10.2 m (33.5 ft) span wing has an area of 12.7 m2 (137 sq ft). The tail is supported by four tubes that allow space for the pusher propeller. Standard engines available are the 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 and 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-strokes and the 60 hp (45 kW) HKS 700E four-stroke powerplant.
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    More information about "Ikarus C52"
    The Ikarus C52 is a German ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Comco Ikarus, introduced at the Aero show held in Friedrichshafen in 2011. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. An evolution of the Ikarus C42, the C52 was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It not only updates the older design, but offers more comforts. The C-52 is not intended to replace the C42 in production, but instead to act as a higher-end complementary model. Like the C42, it features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed open cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft differs from the earlier C42 primarily in that the landing gear is a cantilever design, the tail is constructed of carbon fibre and the engine mount was redesigned. Its 9.45 m (31.0 ft) span wing employs V-struts with jury struts and has an area of 12.5 m2 (135 sq ft). Standard engines available are the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL and the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants.
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    More information about "Coavio DF 2000"
    The Coavio DF 2000 is a single-engine, high-wing all-metal ultralight aircraft with side-by-side seating for two. Built in Italy, production began in 2004. The DF 2000 was designed to provide a fast, robust, comfortable, low-cost side-by-side two-seat ultralight with a short take-off run. It has a conventional layout not unlike that of, for example, the Cessna 152, with a high wing, swept vertical tail and tricycle undercarriage. Structurally, it is mostly built from aluminium alloy, reinforced with TIG-welded 4130 steel tubing in the cockpit area. The wing has constant chord and is braced on each side by a single, broad streamlined strut from the bottom of the fuselage. The shallow, turned-up wing tips are formed from composites. Inboard flaps are fitted. The cockpit area, under the wings and fitted with dual controls, is accessed by upward-hinged doors with deep glazing. Aft, the fuselage becomes more slender, though the swept fin has a long fillet. The rudder has a trim tab and the low-set, parallel-chord tailplane carries a balanced elevator. The tricycle undercarriage has main wheels which are cantilever spring-mounted from the lower fuselage and a steerable nose wheel. All wheels are usually spatted. The DF 2000 family uses several engine/propeller combinations, mostly from the Rotax 912 series of 80 to 100 hp (60 to 75 kW) flat-4s but also the 85 hp (63 kW) Jabiru 2200 and 120 hp (89 kW) Jabiru 3300 powerplants. The DF 2000 first flew in about 2001 and went into production three years later. 54 DF 2000 series aircraft have been built up to 2021. Variants Details from the manufacturer. Spartan Lightest DF 2000, 60 kW (80 hp) Rotax 912 UL engine, 2-blade wooden propeller. Mechanical trim control and flap actuation. DF 2000 Light (or Base) Standard version, as Spartan but painted and with oil pressure gauge. DF 2000 Plus 75 kW (100 hp) Rotax 912 ULS engine, composite 3-bladed propeller with ground-adjustable pitch. Electrical elevator trim control and flap actuation, flap hinge fairing, partial cabin ventilation and additional instrumentation. Wheel spats and landing light. DF 2000 Top (Specifications below) As Plus with a bigger oil cooler, radio and further instrumentation, upholstered seats and cabin panelling. Landing lights, radio and cockpit heater standard. Two-colour external paintwork. Flight-adjustable pitch propeller an option. DA Evolution de Luxe version with either 75 kW (100 hp) Rotax 912 ULS or 64 kW (86 hp) Jabiru 2200[2] engine. As Top, but with full cabin ventilation, improved seating and electrical aileron trim control. Improved external lighting. Three colour external paintwork and bigger spinner.
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    The Douglas AC-47 ("Puff, the Magic Dragon")
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    Wikipedia description of Cotton duck. Cotton duck (from Dutch: doek, meaning "cloth"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. Duck canvas is more tightly woven than plain canvas. There is also linen duck, which is less often used. Cotton duck is used in a wide range of applications, from sneakers to painting canvases to tents to sandbags. Historically, white untwilled cotton or linen fabric uniforms of this name were worn by British and French soldiers serving in the tropics. Duck fabric is woven with two yarns together in the warp and a single yarn in the weft. Duct tape or duck tape is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene. A variety of constructions exist using different backings and adhesives, and the term "duct tape" has been genericized to refer to all of them. A variation is heat-resistant foil tape useful for sealing heating and cooling ducts, produced because standard duct tape fails when used on heating ducts.
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    There was an episode of Air Crash Investigation on Channel 7 this afternoon which reported on a DC-10 crash almost identical to the above accident, with the engine separating from the left wing just after takeoff with the plane rolling to the left, crashing, killing all 270 on board. The rear mounting lug appeared to be damaged when the engine was being reinstalled after a previous repair, causing a fatigue crack in the lug. The breakaway engine damaged the hydraulic lines in the leading edge of the left wing, preventing the outer slats on the wing from operating, preventing that wing from creating the correct lift.
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    The Comp Air Jet is an American eight-seat, low-wing, pressurized, tricycle undercarriage, turbofan-powered civil utility aircraft marketed by Comp Air for amateur construction. The company website does not list it as being in production in 2022. In 2002 the co-owners of Aerocomp, which is now known as Comp Air, Steve Young and Ron Lueck announced the Comp Air Jet project. The jet is constructed from a "proprietary carbon-fiber hybrid sandwich" and powered by a Ukrainian Ivchenko AI-25 engine. Alternative engines planned for included the Pratt & Whitney JT12-8 or CJ610 or projected future Williams International or Agilis engines. On July 10, 2004 the Comp Air Jet flew for the first time from Merritt Island Airport. Though the gear was not retracted during the flight, the aircraft still reached speeds of 157 kn (291 km/h). The jet landed after 37 minutes with the landing taking about 2000 feet. On January 11, 2005 Aerocomp flew the prototype back to the Merritt Island Airport for further development work after more than 30 hours of flight testing at Space Coast Regional Airport, Titusville, Florida.
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    The Collins Dipper was an American homebuilt flying boat that was designed and produced by Collins Aero of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and first flown in 1982. The aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction. Only one was built and none remain registered. The Dipper was a conversion of a Cessna 150, adding a fiberglass hull and nose to the Cessna land plane. Development was protracted and started in 1964, leading to a first flight in 1982. The Dipper featured a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with doors, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration mounted above the cabin on struts. The aircraft is made from aluminum and fiberglass, retaining the Cessna 150's wing and lift struts. The 33.4 ft (10.2 m) span wing employs a NACA 2412 airfoil, mounts flaps and has a wing area of 160 sq ft (15 m2). The standard engine used was the 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 powerplant. The aircraft nose wheel retracted forward and the main landing gear retracted upwards into the rear window space. The Dipper had a typical empty weight of 1,100 lb (500 kg) and a gross weight of 1,760 lb (800 kg), giving a useful load of 660 lb (300 kg). With full fuel of 39 U.S. gallons (150 L; 32 imp gal) the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is 426 lb (193 kg). The manufacturer estimated the conversion time from the plans as 1000 hours.
  10. red750
    It was only his 3rd solo.
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    Accident in first 10 seconds of this video -
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    As mentioned above, The PA-23 was developed from the Stinson Twin, pictured below.
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    The Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor is a two or three-seat, fixed gear, low wing, twin boom covert reconnaissance aircraft. RU-38 is the US military designation for the aircraft, indicating Utility, Reconnaissance. The Schweizer company model number is Schweizer SA 2-38A Condor and, in its three-seat configuration, Schweizer SA 3-38A Condor. Based on the Schweizer SGM 2-37 motor glider, a total of five RU-38s were produced between 1995 and 2005. The aircraft remains in production by Sikorsky Aircraft after acquiring Schweizer. The development of the Schweizer SGM 2-37 motor glider for training use at the United States Air Force Academy led to two reconnaissance versions of that design, carrying the company model numbers SA 2-37A and SA 2-37B. In Central Intelligence Agency, US Army and US Coast Guard service these were designated RG-8A and RG-8B. The RG-8s were employed in border security and surveillance missions. In the mid-1990s, the Coast Guard decided that the aircraft would be more useful if their capabilities were improved to include night operations by the addition of more mission sensor equipment. Discussions with Schweizer Aircraft resulted in a plan to upgrade two RG-8As and to build one new aircraft to provide a total of three. The RU-38 was intended to fulfill both the low altitude, quiet, over water/hostile terrain reconnaissance role and also the high altitude standoff surveillance role. The design missions for the RU-38A were: Border integrity Counter-terrorism surveillance Drug enforcement Electronic intelligence Fishery patrols Illegal alien surveillance Intelligence collection Maritime patrol Pollution patrol & environmental monitoring Search and Rescue In converting to the new RU-38A configuration, the conventional RG-8A airframe was greatly modified by: Removing the single 235 hp (175 kW) Lycoming O-540-B powerplant Installing two Teledyne Continental Motors GIO-550A engines with a 3:2 gear reduction to 2267 operating rpm. The engines are mounted one in the nose and the other in the rear of the fuselage. Enlarging the crew compartment Improving the engine mufflers Increasing the wingspan from 56.5 ft (17.22m) to 84.13 ft (25.65 m) Changing the single tail fin to a twin-boom configuration with two fins Greatly enlarged sensor bays Improved noise signature reduction Tricycle landing gear replacing the conventional landing gear For details of the two variants, click here.
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    Thanks rgm, but I can't get any details, and there are hardly any usable photos. A number of Youtube videos. There is a forum, which I didn't register for, with member comments like this forum, which have all been redacted out. There is nothing with description, history or specifications. The Wikipedia page when you search for Pchelka-2 brings up the twin engine Antonov An-14, whose model name is Pchelka, Bee in English.
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    I think he was trying to recover from a bounce.
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    A report posted on Facebook... A transport safety boss has said a trainee pilot is “a very lucky young man” after his light aircraft crashed into the runway and caught fire at an airport. The 21-year-old was conducting just his third solo flight when the incident occurred at Parafield Airport in Adelaide’s north at 12.30pm on Monday. The ATSB has revealed the student was conducting circuit training and attempting a touch-and-go manoeuvre when things went wrong. “They’ve bounced heavily on their first go of touching down the runway. Then, in that sequence of trying to then lift off and apply power, there’s been insufficient airspeed,” Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell explained. “That’s caused the left wing to stall and to come down and impact with the runway there.” The pilot managed to extract himself from the aircraft and move to safety around 30 seconds after the collision with the ground. The aircraft then caught fire and was destroyed. Despite the dramatic incident, the young aviator, who was unhurt, says he’s keen to get back in the air. “I feel lucky,” he told reporters of the incident. “I just want to practice more and fly better and next time will be better. “It’s a bit sad to lose the plane I’ve been flying like 20 hours (in), but I just want to move on, just want to learn more.” The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has confirmed it is investigating the crash. “Very fortunate student pilot, less so fortunate owner of the aircraft,” Mitchell said. Mitchell said investigators would examine the aircraft itself and gather more details about the pilot’s experience and what led to the loss of airspeed that caused the collision. “We see around 20 incidents and accidents every year with student pilots doing solo flights,” he said, noting that student pilots on solo flights present a certain level of risk. The ATSB is still gathering information to determine the full extent of the investigation. The video accompanying the report concentrated on the fire, pall of smoke and burnt out aircraft, and did not show the stall and crash.
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    The video was shown on Sunrise this morning but has not been uploaded to the news page on the internet, and has not been uploaded to 7plus streaming, even the Adelaide News version. Other video, of the student pilot being interviewed by the Ch 7 reporter, and vision of the fire and burnt out plane are shown, but not the stall/crash. That may be uploaded later.
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    Video this morning shows the aircraft attempt to climb with insufficient speed, drop the left wing and fall to the runway.
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    The Aviation Traders ATL-90 Accountant was a 1950s British twin-engined 28-passenger turboprop airliner built at Southend Airport England by Aviation Traders, a member of the airline and aircraft engineering group controlled by Freddie Laker. The ATL-90 Accountant was a turboprop airliner designed as a replacement for the Douglas DC-3. It was powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops and first flew from Southend on 9 July 1957. The only Accountant, initially flown using the test serial G-41-1, but quickly registered G-ATEL, was displayed at the Farnborough Airshow in September 1957 but did not attract much commercial interest. The aircraft last flew on 10 January 1958, development was abandoned and the aircraft was scrapped in February 1960.
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    There was no mention of whether he attempted to flare the landing, he just told the reporter "It just kept going down".
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    Says he plans to continue to get his licence.
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    A student conducting a solo flight in a Cessna 172 at Parafield Airport crashed into the runway. The plane caught fire, which spread to a grass fire, but the student walked away without a scratch.
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    The Fairey FB-1 Gyrodyne was an experimental British rotorcraft that used single lifting rotor and a tractor propeller mounted on the tip of the starboard stub wing to provide both propulsion and anti-torque reaction. It was the first of a third type of rotorcraft, the gyrodyne. In April 1946, Fairey announced a private-venture project for a rotary-wing aircraft, to be built to a design developed by Dr. J.A.J. Bennett while he was chief technical officer at the Cierva Autogiro Company in 1936–1939. The Gyrodyne, constituting a third distinct type of rotorcraft and designated C.41 by the Cierva Autogiro Company, was in 1938 successfully tendered to the Royal Navy in response to Specification S.22/38 for a naval helicopter. Though preliminary work started on the project, it was abandoned with the outbreak of the Second World War, and G & J Weir, Ltd., the financiers of the Cierva Autogiro Company, declined to undertake further development in addition to their successful experiments with the W.5 and W.6 lateral twin-rotor helicopters. After the Second World War, the Cierva Autogiro Company was engaged with the development of the Cierva W.9 "Drainpipe" and the W.11 Air Horse helicopters under the direction of Cyril Pullin, and Bennett joined Fairey in late 1945 as head of the newly established rotary wing aircraft division. The FB-1 Gyrodyne was a compact, streamlined rotorcraft weighing just over 4,410 lb (2,000 kg) and powered by a 520–540 hp (390–400 kW) Alvis Leonides 522/2 radial engine, the power from which could be transmitted in variable ratios to the fixed-shaft/swashplate-actuated tilting hub-controlled rotor and the wing tip mounted propeller. The Gyrodyne possessed the hovering capability of a helicopter, while its propeller provided the necessary thrust for forward flight to enable its rotor, driven at low torque in cruise flight, to operate at low collective pitch with the tip-path plane parallel to the flight path to minimise vibration at high airspeed. Collective pitch was an automatic function of throttle setting and power loading of the propeller, which to maintain rpm diverted torque away from the rotor as airspeed increased. Only 2 prototypes completed.
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    The Creative Flight Aerocat is a Canadian mid-wing, all composite, four passenger experimental aircraft that can be configured for amphibious float operations. Under development since 1998, the aircraft is intended to be supplied in kit form by Creative Flight of Haliburton, Ontario, for amateur construction. The company has since been renamed Auriga Design. Development started in 1998 on the MPA Aerocat. In 2002, the vehicle was renamed the Creative Flight Aerocat. The all composite aircraft features a distinctive gull-wing design with pods that floats can attach to. A twin engine variant is powered by two Jabiru 3300 engines. In both the case of the single and twin engined versions, the engines are mounted in pusher configuration on a composite arch behind the cockpit. Status Under development Number built One (2011) Single engine variant Twin engine variant
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