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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.
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
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. Three units were produced: Excalibur, Excambian, and Exeter, plus two XPBS-1 ...
The design was given the designation L-049 or Excalibur A. The wings of the aircraft were similar to those used by the P-38 Lightning fighter. The aircraft was to be powered by four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radials with the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 as the back-up. Re-designed, the Excalibur was to be priced at $450,000, making it the most ...
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
In December 2010 the CEA-308, powered by the Jabiru 2200, set four FAI records for aircraft weighing less than 300 kg. It averaged 223 miles/hour for four runs over the 3-km low-altitude course [ 6 ] and 203 mph on a 100-km circuit.