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The Affordaplane (sometimes written Afford-A-Plane) is an American plans-built, high wing, strut-braced, single engine, tractor configuration, conventional landing gear equipped ultralight aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. Designed by Dave Edwards, it is intended for amateur construction. [1]
The Airbike was sold as an assembly kit. The kit included a pre-welded fuselage and tail, pre-built main wing spars and ribs, all brackets and fittings, landing gear, engine, propeller, instruments and a five-gallon fuel tank. The company estimated the time to complete the aircraft at 150 hours for the single-seater.
Data from Cliche, Better Half VW and Kitplanes General characteristics Crew: one Length: 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) Wingspan: 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Wing area: 107 sq ft (9.9 m 2) Empty weight: 244 lb (111 kg) Gross weight: 500 lb (227 kg) Fuel capacity: 5 US gallons (19 litres) Powerplant: 1 × Half VW horizontally opposed twin-cylinder, four-stroke, single ignition aircraft ...
Kit-of-parts construction is a special subset of pre-fabrication that not only attempts to achieve flexibility in assembly and efficiency in manufacture, but also by definition requires a capacity for demountability, disassembly, and reuse. Kit-of-parts structures can be assembled and taken apart in a variety of ways like a construction toy.
The Adams CA-2 is a single seat, low-wing, American ultralight aircraft that was designed by Frank Griffith of Corning Aircraft around 1992 and was available as plans for amateur construction until 1999.
The F-23 is intended to compete with the 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 and is differentiated from the Rotax powerplant by offering a horizontally-opposed cylinder layout. The F-23 uses free air cooling and piston-ported induction, with dual Bing 34mm slide or optional diaphragm type carburetors.
Trailing edge flaps extended on the right on a typical airliner (an Airbus A310-300). Leading edge slats are also extended, on the left.. A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight.
Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.