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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.
Data from Challenger.ca General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger and 500 lb (227 kg) useful load Length: 20 ft (6.1 m) Wingspan: 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Wing area: 177 sq ft (16.4 m 2) Empty weight: 460 lb (209 kg) Max takeoff weight: 960 lb (435 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 503 twin cylinder, inline, two stroke, piston aircraft engine, 50 hp (37 kW ...
Gotha LE.2; Gotha LE.3; Harlan Pfeil Taube; Halberstadt Taube III: ... Excalibur Aircraft Excalibur; Excalibur ( Excalibur Aviation Company) Excalibur 800; Exkluziv
Possibly one P-51D captured in 1944, fate unknown [7] Polikarpov U-2VS (Po-2) USSR: Utility biplane One captured in 1944 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 USSR: Fighter One I-16 captured near Dorohoi in 1941. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3: USSR: Fighter Captured near Melitopol on 18 March 1942 when the pilot defected. [8]
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.
The Sikorsky VS-44 was a large four-engined flying boat built in the United States in the early 1940s by Sikorsky Aircraft.Based on the XPBS-1 patrol bomber, the VS-44 was designed primarily for the transatlantic passenger market, with a capacity of 40+ passengers.
M892A1: 4 m (13 ft) CEP, or < 1 m (3 ft 3 in) CEP (K9 at 50 km (31 mi) range) The M982 Excalibur (previously XM982 ) is a 155 mm extended-range guided artillery shell developed in a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). [ 5 ]