Taiwan Dancer TD-3
The Taiwan Dancer TD-3 is a Taiwanese amateur-built aircraft produced by Taiwan Dancer Technology Co. of Nangang Village, Dayuan, Taoyuan. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.[1]
Design and development
The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with doors for access, fixed tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.[1][2]
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing while the wing is made from aluminum sheet parts, with all surfaces covered in formed epoxy polymer. Its 8.62 m (28.3 ft) span wing is supported by "V" struts, employs a NASA-HQ3.0 airfoil, has an area of 11.16 m2 (120.1 sq ft) and mounts flaperons. The wings can be folded in 15 minutes for ground transportation or storage. The recommended power range is 65 to 110 hp (48 to 82 kW) and the standard engines used are the 97 hp (72 kW) geared Volkswagen air-cooled engine and the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants.[1][2]
Specifications (TD-3)
Data from Bayerl and Taiwan Dancer[1][2]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one passenger
- Length: 7 m (23.5 ft)
- Wingspan: 8.62 m (28 ft 3 in)
- Height: 2 m (7.7 ft)
- Wing area: 11.16 m2 (120.1 sq ft)
- Airfoil: NASA-HQ3.0
- Empty weight: 272 kg (600 lb)
- Gross weight: 499 kg (1,100 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 60 litres (13 imp gal; 16 US gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Volkswagen air-cooled engine four cylinder, air-cooled, four stroke geared automotive conversion, 72 kW (97 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed wooden
Performance
- Maximum speed: 193 km/h (120 mph; 104 kn)
- Cruising speed: 150 km/h (93 mph; 81 kn)
- Stall speed: 45 km/h (28 mph; 24 kn)
- Range: 402 km; 217 nmi (250 mi)
- Service ceiling: 3,658 m (12,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 4.6 m/s (900 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 44.6 kg/m2 (9.1 lb/sq ft)
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