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Birdman Chinook 2S showing the pentagonal cockpit cross-section Birdman Chinook 2S Birdman Chinook 2S cockpit Birdman Chinook 2S Rotax 503 engine installation. The Birdman Chinook is a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was first flown on 12 December 1982 and produced by Birdman Enterprises of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, starting in 1983.
In 1988 one of the owners of a Chinook 2S, Brent Holomis, decided to start producing Chinook parts to support the existing fleet of aircraft. Once parts were available from his new company Aircraft Sales and Parts (ASAP), Holomis next embarked on a redesign of the Chinook 2S and by 1989 the ASAP Chinook Plus 2 was available in kit form.
ASAP Chinook Plus 2 ASAP Beaver RX-550 ASAP Beaver SS at the Canadian Aviation Expo Summit II powered parachute. Aircraft Sales and Parts (ASAP) is an American kit aircraft and parts manufacturer, founded in Vernon, British Columbia and moved to Sealy, Texas in 2013 and renamed the Aeroplane Manufactory.
The wing features aluminum tube spars and ribs. All Beavers prior to the RX 550 Plus and the SS had pre-sewn Dacron envelopes, which enabled builders to complete the kits in as little as 100 hours. The later models use conventional fabric methods and this makes the factory-claimed build times 150–200 hours for the SS and 180–200 hours to ...
The WT-11 received both critical acclaim and commercial success. The single seat WT-11 was followed by Talanczuk's two-seat trainer version which Birdman designated as the Chinook 2S (2 seater). A total of over 700 WT-11s and 2S Chinooks were completed before Birdman Enterprises went out of business in late 1987. [6]
Data from Company website, AeroCrafter & Kitplanes General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger and 530 lb (240 kg) useful load Length: 18 ft 8 in (5.69 m) Wingspan: 25 ft 3 in (7.70 m) Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Wing area: 113 sq ft (10.51 m 2) Airfoil: modified GA (W)-2 Empty weight: 520 lb (236 kg) Max takeoff weight: 1,050 lb (476 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Limbach Flugmotoren Four ...
Data from Merlin magic revisited and Merlin EZ General characteristics Crew: two Length: 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m) Wingspan: 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) Height: 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) Wing area: 235 sq ft (21.8 m 2) Empty weight: 700 lb (318 kg) Max takeoff weight: 1,400 lb (635 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 912S 4-cyl. air-cooled horizontally opposed four-stroke piston engine, 100 hp (75 kW) Performance Maximum ...
Data from Cliche and Summit General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) Height: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) to top of propeller guard Wing area: 550 sq ft (51 m 2) Empty weight: 310 lb (141 kg) Gross weight: 950 lb (431 kg) when fitted with a Mustang S-550 rectangular canopy Fuel capacity: 10 U.S. gallons (38 L; 8.3 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 582 twin ...