Druine Turbulent

D.31 Turbulent
Role Single-seat light aircraft
Designer Roger Druine
First flight 1950s
Unit cost
£945 (1960)

The Druine D.31 Turbulent is a French single-seat ultralight Homebuilt aircraft designed by Roger Druine.[1]

Development

The D.31 Turbulent was designed to be amateur-built and is a single-seat ultra-light aircraft with cantilever low-wing and fixed tailwheel landing gear. Designed to be powered by a 30hp (1200cc) Volkswagen or similar engine.[2] The fuselage uses wood construction.[3] Rollason Aircraft & Engines Limited produced 29 factory-built D.31 aircraft in the United Kingdom and three D.31A models with strengthened wing spar in order to get a full British certificate of Airworthiness. Five Turbulents are operated by the Tiger Club in 2008.[4]

The rights to plans for the design are held by the UK Light Aircraft Association.[5]

Variants

D.3
Original design and prototypes
D.31
Standard home-built and factory built variant
D.31A
Factory & homebuilt aircraft incorporating factory designed (Rollason of Croydon) strengthened main spar to allow C of A certification. Top speed = 115 Knots. Max weight = 317 kg

Specifications (D.31)

Four Turbulents at the 1962 Farnborough show

Data from A.J.Jackson, British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2, Putnam & Company, London, 1974, ISBN 0-370-10010-7

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

Notes

  1. Sport Aviation. December 1960. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Air Trails: 78. Winter 1971. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Bob Hege (Winter 1969). "That thing in the basement". Air Progress: 10.
  4. Tiger Club Druine Turbulent page Retrieved: 25 February 2008
  5. Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 107. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X

Bibliography

  • A.J.Jackson, British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2, Putnam & Company, London, 1974, ISBN 0-370-10010-7

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