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The Excalibur was designed as "clone" [1] of the Quad City Challenger II aircraft. The company took the basic Challenger design and incorporated many changes, including mounting the engine upright allowing larger propellers and the Rotax gearbox to be mounted, lengthening the tailboom and enlarging the tail vertical surface to increase stability, shortening the ailerons and replacing control ...
The new design differed so much from the original Excalibur, that a different model designation was needed. It was first given the temporary designation L-104, then it was later officially designated the Model 49 or "Excalibur A". In time, the Model 49 would become a completely different aircraft from the original Model 44.
The Romanian Air Force (RoAF) (Romanian: Forțele Aeriene Române) is the air force branch of the Romanian Armed Forces.It has an air force headquarters, an operational command, five air bases, a logistics base, an air defense brigade, an air defense regiment and an ISR brigade.
1 In service 1910–1914 A Vlaicu II: Romania Monoplane 1 Crashed in 1913 A Vlaicu III: Romania Monoplane 1 Captured by Germany in 1916 Albatros B.I: Germany Reconnaissance: 1 Purchased in 1913, retired in 1917 Aviatik C.I: Germany Reconnaissance 1 Purchased in 1916 Blériot XI: France Monoplane trainer ~28 Retired in 1919 Blériot XXI: France
1 x 76.2 mm M-1936 F-22 (1) 1 x 76.2 mm ZIS-3 (20) 1 x 7.92 mm ZB-53 machine gun Vânătorul de care R35: Tank destroyer/light tank: 30 converted from R35s: 1 x 45 mm 20K mod. 1932–34 tank gun Mareșal: Tank destroyer: 6 prototypes: 1 x 122 mm M1910/30 howitzer (4) 1 x 75 mm DT-UDR (2) 1 x 7.92 mm ZB-53 machine gun
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One of the engineers designing IAR aircraft in the early 1930s was Elie Carafoli. During 1930, IAR's first original aircraft, the IAR CV 11, performed its maiden flight; it functioned as an experimental design only. [4] One of its earliest aircraft to reach quantity production was the IAR 14, a trainer aircraft derived from the IAR 12 prototype ...
The SA26 Merlin is a pressurized Excalibur fitted with a different Lycoming TIGO-540 6-cylinder geared piston engine. The TIGO 540 was used despite the fact that one of the reasons the IO-720 was used in the Excalibur was that the Queen Air series' IGSO-480 and IGSO-540 engines from the same manufacturer were so troublesome.