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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.
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.
Military aircraft by nationality of original manufacturer International joint ventures Algeria • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Austria and Austria-Hungary • Belgium • Brazil • Bulgaria • Canada • Chile • China • Colombia • Cyprus • Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia • Denmark • Egypt • Estonia • Finland • France • Georgia (country) • East Germany ...
Gotha LE.2; Gotha LE.3; Harlan Pfeil Taube; Halberstadt Taube III: ... Excalibur Aircraft Excalibur; Excalibur ( Excalibur Aviation Company) Excalibur 800; Exkluziv
Fieseler Fi 156C-2/C-3/D-1: Germany/Romania: Reconnaissance/liaison aircraft: 112 74 built by ICAR Retired after 1948 Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-2: Germany: Reconnaissance 2 In service 1943–1945 Gotha Go 145: Germany: Trainer 15 In service from 1939, retired after 1948 Gotha Go 150: Germany: Trainer 1 Requisitioned in 1941, retired after 1948 Gotha ...
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 ...