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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.
20 July [2] Commanders; Chief of the Air Force Staff: Major general Leonard-Gabriel Baraboi [3] Insignia; Roundel: Military colors: Identification flag (obverse) Aircraft flown; Attack: IAR 330 SOCAT: Fighter: F-16AM MLU: Reconnaissance: Antonov An-30: Trainer: F-16BM, IAR 99, Iak-52, IAR 316: Transport: Antonov An-26, C-130 Hercules, C-27J ...
The Excalibur Ib has improved reliability and lower unit cost than the previous Excalibur Ia-1 and Ia-2. At the time of the award, over 690 Excalibur projectiles had been fired in theater. [ 50 ] In February 2014, the U.S. Army and Raytheon fired 30 Excalibur Ib shells at test targets to confirm the performance and reliability of the ...
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.
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Romanian military utility aircraft (1 C) W. World War II Romanian aircraft (3 C, 1 P)
C-3603-1 - main production version (148 built, at least 60 later converted to target tugs) C-3603-1 TR - trainer version (2 built) EKW C-3604 - Post-war development using Saurer YS-2 engine (13 built) F+W C-3605 - Turboprop version with Lycoming T53 engine (24 converted from C-3603-1) EKW D-3800 - licence built M.S.406H fighter
Anti-aircraft artillery ZU-2: 2×14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun Romania: 60: Romanian manufactured version. There is also a 4×14.5mm version called the MR-4, [115] essentially a ZPU-4, but with a two-wheel carriage designed locally. [116] M 1980/88 2 × 30 mm anti-aircraft gun Romania: 300 [32] Gepard: Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun ...