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The Cirrus VK-30 is a single-engine pusher-propeller homebuilt aircraft originally sold as a kit by Cirrus Design (now Cirrus Aircraft), and was the company's first model, introduced in 1987. [ 2 ] As a kit aircraft, the VK-30 is a relatively obscure design with few completed aircraft flying.
A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive as well as the lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft), Some aircraft have a Push-pull configuration with both tractor and pusher engines.
Zdarsky started the company after carving his own propeller for a homebuilt ultralight trike that he flew from Cold War Czechoslovakia, over the Iron Curtain to Vienna in 1984. Ivoprop has sold more than 20,000 propellers since then. [1] [2] The company's propellers are built from carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and feature a stainless steel ...
The propeller tips would have transonic wave drag and would operate in a disturbed wake, limiting propeller efficiency, and laminar flow would be difficult to maintain for a large part of the fuselage with windows and panel seams. [9] The configuration is similar to the 1948 Planet Satellite, or the 2011 EADS Voltaire electric aircraft concept. [7]
Aircraft whose primary form of thrust is derived from a propeller as opposed to a jet engine. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
The first aircraft to be offered for sale as plans, rather than a completed airframe, was the Baby Ace in the late 1920s. [7] Canada's first homebuilt aircraft, Stitts SA-3A Playboy CF-RAD, first flown in 1955, seen in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Diemert Defender emergency fighter concept.
Pacesetter Propeller Works, Limited was an American manufacturer of propellers for homebuilt and ultralight aircraft. The company headquarters was located in Hillsboro, Oregon . [ 1 ]
The Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star is an American single-engined, propeller-driven aircraft that was developed for battlefield observation during the Vietnam War. Designed to be as quiet as possible, it was intended to observe troop movements in near-silence during the hours of darkness.