Post by hairy on Jan 21, 2008 21:51:04 GMT 12
.............for display flying?
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Turbine Toucan:
From their website www.turbinetoucan.com/homepage/
"The performance mission of this aircraft is to create an aerobatic biplane capable of sustaining +8/-6 G's, a greater then 300º per/sec roll rate, while creating a better-than-one-to-one power-to-weight ratio. Target air show weight will be less than 2000lbs with thrust targeted at 3300lbs. This will be close to a 1.65:1 ratio, unheard of in any general aviation (GA) aircraft. To put it in perspective, the F/A-18 Hornet (at fighter mission weight) is 36,700lbs@32,000lbs of thrust. This is about .87:1 thrust to weight ratio performance at a cost of $39.5 million dollars.
Being the only propeller driven aircraft with a better-than-one-to-one power- to-weight ratio, the Turbine Toucan was designed to do what no other aircraft in the world can, 3D aerobatics. And what is even more impressive, it will be the only fixed wing GA aircraft in the world that can hover (well… that's the plan and we're sticking to it)!"
And watch this from 02:35 onwards, unbelievable!
;D
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Turbine Toucan:
From their website www.turbinetoucan.com/homepage/
"The performance mission of this aircraft is to create an aerobatic biplane capable of sustaining +8/-6 G's, a greater then 300º per/sec roll rate, while creating a better-than-one-to-one power-to-weight ratio. Target air show weight will be less than 2000lbs with thrust targeted at 3300lbs. This will be close to a 1.65:1 ratio, unheard of in any general aviation (GA) aircraft. To put it in perspective, the F/A-18 Hornet (at fighter mission weight) is 36,700lbs@32,000lbs of thrust. This is about .87:1 thrust to weight ratio performance at a cost of $39.5 million dollars.
Being the only propeller driven aircraft with a better-than-one-to-one power- to-weight ratio, the Turbine Toucan was designed to do what no other aircraft in the world can, 3D aerobatics. And what is even more impressive, it will be the only fixed wing GA aircraft in the world that can hover (well… that's the plan and we're sticking to it)!"
And watch this from 02:35 onwards, unbelievable!
;D
