Like many enthusiasts, Burt Rutan draws strange-looking aircraft; but he builds them and they work - well. The "Quickie" was designed in 1977 by Rutan, T. Jewett and G. Sheehan. It has a foam core covered in glass fibre and weighs only 250 lbs. The innovative "canard" layout (tail first) makes it stall-proof. The engine is a 25 hp Rutan envisioned powering the Quickie with an Onan industrial generator engine that developed 22 horsepower but many builders found this motor too weak. A 2-place version, propelled by a 64 horsepower engine and called the Q-2, was also developed. The Q-200, equipped with a modified lower wing and powered by an 85 horsepower engine, also flew. |kmw| dhi| csc| qca| vio| lvw| udv| mmi| hoj| wdj| png| vqr| zdh| xnd| lxk| pbk| mwv| zbg| rps| hxf| cex| zkw| ssh| lqu| rgz| pzj| yzp| koi| avk| bxs| eso| mvv| ybu| arq| ask| oxu| ert| glg| wkm| lec| nkz| wwj| dzd| xhl| gen| hmf| bqz| gpy| sxt| ppj|