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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 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]
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and ...
Data from Company website, AeroCrafter & Kitplanes General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger and 450 lb (204 kg) useful load Length: 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) Wingspan: 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m) Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Wing area: 154 sq ft (14.32 m 2) Empty weight: 400 lb (181 kg) Max takeoff weight: 850 lb (385 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 582 Two stroke, two cylinder aircraft engine ...
A Zenith STOL CH 701 on wheels A Czech Aircraft Works-built CH 701 AMD-built CH 750 CH 750 CH 750 instrument panel CH 701 Turboprop CH 701 Turboprop in flight. The Zenith STOL CH 701 and CH 750 are a family of light, two-place kit-built STOL aircraft designed by Canadian aeronautical engineer Chris Heintz through his Midland, Ontario, based company, Zenair.
The new version was designated the RX 550 Plus and remains in production in kit form. By the end of 2007 a total of 2000 RX 550s had been produced by all manufacturers. [1] [3] [4] In 2000 ASAP introduced a single seat version of the Beaver based on the RX-28, designated the Beaver SS (Single Seat).