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The Davis DA-5 is a single-seat sport aircraft designed in the United States in the 1970s and marketed for homebuilding. Like designer Leeon D. Davis's successful DA-2, it is a low-wing monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage and a V-tail, but with a much narrower fuselage accommodating only the pilot, and a lengthened nose. Design work was carried out in 1972, but the prototype was not built until 1974, when it was completed in only 67 days.
[edit] Specifications (prototype)
General characteristics
- Crew: One pilot
- Length: 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)
- Wingspan: 15 ft 7 in (4.76 m)
- Height: 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m)
- Wing area: 57 ft² (5.3 m²)
- Empty weight: 460 lb (208 kg)
- Gross weight: 775 lb (351 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder piston engine, 65 hp (49 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 160 mph (257 km/h)
- Range: 450 miles (725 km)
- Service ceiling: 14,500 ft (4,420 m)
[edit] References
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 305.
- Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1977-78. London: Jane's Yearbooks, 534-35.
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