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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.
Excalibur Airways Airbus A320 at Faro Airport in 1992. Excalibur Airways was formed in the spring of 1992 and was based at the East Midlands Airport. It began charter operations with three leased Airbus A320s and most of the flights were out of London Gatwick airport. In 1994, one more A320 and a Boeing 737-300 were added. Excalibur was the ...
3 Potez 25.40 Last aircraft retired in 1948 1929 Dewoitine D.27: France: Fighter 3 Retired in 1935 1929 Nieuport-Delage NiD 72: France: Fighter 3 Retired in 1935 1930 Morane-Saulnier MS.230: France: Trainer 16 Retired in 1937 1930 SET 3: Romania: Trainer 10 Retired in 1938 1930 SET 31: Romania: Trainer 20 Retired in 1943 1930 SET 7: Romania ...
6 x FN Browning machine guns (4 for 10 of them) 2 x 13.2 mm FN Browning heavy machine gun (10 of them) 1 x 225 bomb 2 x 50 kg bombs IAR 81A: Fighter and dive bomber: 10: 2 x 13.2 mm FN Browning heavy machine guns 4 x FN Browning machine guns 1 x 225 kg bomb 2 x 50 kg bombs IAR 81C: Fighter: 148: 2 x 20 mm MG 151 autocannons 2 x FN Browning ...
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 3203 was developed as a replacement for the Hirth 2706 and as a competitor to the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582.It replaced the 2706 in the Hirth line in May 2002. The engine is similar to the Rotax powerplant in being a two-cylinder in-line engine, with dual capacitor discharge ignition, although it is air-cooled, compared to the 582's liquid cooling.
American Export Lines magazine print ad (ca. 1948) announcing the new (post-war) 4 AcesAfter World War II, American Export Lines purchased four C3-class [4] Windsor-class attack transports built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. at Sparrow's Point, Maryland, had them refitted as passenger-cargo liners, and placed them in service as the new "4 Aces."