First flown in 1990.
Engine: Zenoah G-50, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Height: 5.5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 112.5 sq.ft
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Weight empty: 323 lbs
Gross: 560 lbs
Speed max: 100 mph
Cruise: 70 mph
Range: 120 sm
Stall: 28 mph
ROC: 1200 fpm
Take-off dist: 100 ft
Landing dist: 210 ft
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
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The Mini-MAX 1100R is a minimum cost aircraft, requiring a Minimum of building space, time or skill. A “Maximum” high of pure pleasure and performance.
Mini-MAX 1100R standard equipment:
Quick removable wings
Shoulder harness/seat belt
Full-span flaperons
Curved windshield
Strut-braced tail
5 gallon gas tank
2009 Price: 4795 US$
Tne Mini-MAX 1100R can be upgraded to models 1550R and 1260R.
The 1200Z can be upgraded to the 1500R. First flown in 1984.
The TEAM 1300Z MiniMAX was first flown in 1991.
The 1500R was first flown in 1991. A Minimum-cost aircraft, requiring a Minimum of building space, time or skill. Wood was chosen as the basic building material. It is easy to work with, dependable in its strength characteristics, and is not bothered by the vibrations associated with 2-cycle engines.
1500R construction techniques are of the old-fashioned, tried and true wood truss and plywood gusset method. It is very simple, and builds quickly. If you have ever built a balsa-wood model airplane, you have the experience required to build this “full-scale” model. While construction time will vary from builder to builder, approximately 300 hours is the average.
The 1500R was also marketed as the JDT 1500R.
1500R SPORT Standard equipment:
Fiberglass engine cowl
Prop spinner
Quick removable wings
Shoulder harness/seat belt
Curved windshield
Strut-braced tail
5 USgallon gas tank
2009 Price: 5290 US$
The TEAM1600R first flew in 1993.
The 1650 Eros first flew in 1987.
1100F “Ultralight”
Engine: Hirth F-33
Flight controls: 3-Axis
Wingspan: 25′ 0″
Wing area: 112.5 sq. ft.
Wings: Removable
Length: 15′ 6″
Empty weight: 237 lbs.
Gross weight: 560 lbs.
Design load factors: +4.4 -1.8
Top speed: 70 mph
Cruise speed: 55 mph
Stall speed: 27-30 mph
Climb rate: 650 fpm
Vne: 90 mph
Take-off roll: 150 ft.
Landing roll: 180 ft
JDT Mini-Max 1100R
Engine: Rotax 447, 42 hp
Height: 5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 113 sq.ft
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Empty Weight: 121 kg / 267 lbs
MTOW Weight: 254 kg / 560 lbs
VNE: 87 kt / 100 mph / 161 kmh
Speed max: 86 mph
Cruise: 56 kt / 65 mph / 105 kmh
Range: 120 sm
Stall: 24 kt / 28 mph / 45 kmh
ROC: 1000 fpm / 5 m/s
Take-off distance (50ft obstacle): 100 ft / 30 m
Landing distance (50ft obstacle): 210 ft / 64 m
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
LSA: yes
Team 1100R miniMAX
Engine: Rotax 447, 42 hp
Wing span: 8 m
Wing area: 11 sq.m
MAUW: 220 kg
Empty weight: 130 kg
Fuel capacity: 20 lt
Max speed: 140 kph
Cruise speed: 120 kph
Minimum speed: 55 kph
Climb rate: 5 m/s
Certification: PFA
Seats: 1
Fuel consumption: 8 lt/hr
Plan price (1998): 1125 Fttc
Kit price (1998): $3825
1200Z
Engine: Zenoah G-50, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Height: 5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 112.5 sq.ft
Fuel cap: 15 USG
Weight empty: 278 lbs
Gross: 560 lbs
Speed max: 100 mph
Cruise: 65 mph
Range: 150 sm
Stall: 28 mph
ROC: 1200 fpm
Take-off dist: 100 ft
Landing dist: 210 ft
Service ceiling: 12,500 ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
TEAM 1300Z
Engine: Zenoah G50C, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Height: 5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 113 sq.ft
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Weight empty: 300 lbs
Gross: 560 lbs
Speed max: 86 mph
Cruise: 75 mph
Range: 200 sm
Stall: 35 mph
ROC: 1000 fpm
Take-off dist: 150 ft
Landing dist: 200 ft
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
1500R
Engine: Zenoah G-50, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Height: 5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 112.5 sq.ft
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Weight empty: 269 lbs
Gross: 560 lbs
Speed max: 100 mph
Cruise: 65 mph
Range: 150 sm
Stall: 28 mph
ROC: 1200 fpm
Take-off dist: 100 ft
Landing dist: 210 ft
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
JDT Mini-Max 1500R Sport
JDT Mini-MAX 1500R Open cockpit
Engine: Rotax 447, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 112.5 sq.ft
Fuel capacity: 10 USG
Empty Weight: 122 kg / 269 lbs
MTOW Weight: 254 kg / 560 lbs
VNE: 87 kt / 100 mph / 161 kmh
Stall: 24 kt / 28 mph / 45 kmh
Cruise: 56 kt / 65 mph / 105 kmh
Range: 170 sm
Rate of climb: 1000 ft/min / 5 m/s
Take-off distance (50ft obstacle): 100 ft / 30 m
Landing distance (50ft obstacle): 210 ft / 64 m
Landing dist: 210 ft
Seats: 1
Cockpit width: 24 in
Landing gear: tailwheel
LSA: yes
1600R
Engine: Rotax 447, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Speed max: 100 mph
Cruise: 72 mph
Range: 180 sm
Stall: 28 mph
ROC: 1200 fpm
Take-off dist: 100 ft
Landing dist: 200 ft
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Weight empty: 301 lbs
Gross: 560 lbs
Height: 5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 112.5 sq.ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
JDT Mini-Max 1600R
Engine: Rotax 447, 42 hp
HP range: 30-50
Cruise: 72 mph
Range: 210 sm
Stall: 28 mph
ROC: 1200 fpm
Take-off dist: 100 ft
Landing dist: 210 ft
Fuel cap: 10 USG
Weight empty: 301 lbs
Gross: 560 lbs
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 112.5 sq.ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tail wheel
Cockpit width: 24in
1650 Eros
Engine: Rotax 503, 52 hp
HP range: 40-52
Height: 5 ft
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 26.5 ft
Wing area: 118 sq.ft
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Weight empty: 345 lbs
Gross: 640 lbs
Speed max: 110 mph
Cruise: 85 mph
Range: 125 sm
Stall: 35 mph
ROC: 1600 fpm
Take-off dist: 125 ft
Landing dist: 225 ft
Service ceiling: 12,000 ft
Seats: 1
Cockpit width: 24 in
Landing gear: tail wheel
LSA: yes
The 1030R Max 103UL featured an open cockpit with swing over canopy.
JDT 1030F MAX 103
Engine: Hirth F-33
Flight controls: 3-Axis
Wingspan: 25′ 0″
Wing area: 112.5 sq. ft.
Wings: Removable
Length: 16′ 0″
Empty weight: 250 lbs.
Gross weight: 500 lbs.
Design load factors: +4.4 -1.8
Top speed: 63+ mph
Cruise speed: 55 mph
Stall speed: 26 mph
Climb rate: 650 fpm
Vne: 90 mph
Take-off roll: 150 ft.
Landing roll: 180 ft
1030R Max 103UL
Engine: Rotax 277, 28 hp
Fuel cap: 5 USG
Weight empty: 250 lbs
Gross: 500 lbs
Height: 5 ft
Length: 15.5 ft
Wing span: 25 ft
Wing area: 113 sq.ft
Speed max: 62 mph
Cruise: 55 mph
Range: 120 sm
Stall: 26 mph
ROC: 650 fpm
Take-off dist: 150 ft
Landing dist: 180 ft
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Seats: 1
Cockpit width: 22 in
Landing gear: tail wheel
LSA: yes
Tennessee Engineering and Manufacturing
1995-8: 10790 Ivy Bluff Rd. K, Bradyville, TN 37026, USA.
Markets plans and/or kits to build a range of aircraft, including Air-Bike single-seat and open-frame microlight, Hi-MAX single-seat cabin monoplane, and miniMAX single-seat mid-wing monoplane.
ISON Aircraft (formerly TEAM Aircraft) won prestigious awards at Oshkosh and Sun ‘n Fun, and Wayne Ison and were EAA Ultralight Hall of Fame Inductees.
Production of the TEAM Inc Mini-MAX and Hi-MAX lines has moved to the JDT facility at the Nappanee, Indiana Airport (Hangar M). Who do not own the rights to any other Ison designs.
From 1976 this company held manufacturing and tooling rights for the Thurston Teal, which was previously owned by Schweizer Aircraft Corporation. Plans to restore the Teal to production in 1978, as the TSC-1A3 Marlin, did not take materialize.
When during the 1950s the Chinese People’s Republic decided to revive the country’s sporting gliding movement it was to Poland that they turned for help, and with the aid of instructors, technicians and designers from the Polish SZD organisation a central Gliding School was organized at An-Yan and large gliding establishments were set up at Tchan-Tia-Kou. It was here that a Chinese glider design office was formed towards the end of 1956 under the direction of Dipl Ing Niespal of the Polish SZD, and a Glider Manufacturing Centre was organized for the licence production of Polish types such as the ABC, Salamandra, the SZD-8 Jasolka, the SZD-12 Mucha 100 and the SZD-9 Bocian, examples of which had already been purchased from Poland; production of these types began during 1955-56.
It was at Tchan-Tia-Kou that the first Chinese glider of original design, the Lie-Fang (or Liberation) two seater intermediate trainer, was created. The design of the Lie-Fang, one of the first gliders to originate in China, was led by the Polish J. Niespal. He was assisted by two Chinese engineers, Tchen-Kuei-Wen and Li-Ti-Tuin.
Niespal used the 1953 SZD-12 Mucha 100 as a starting point. There were many differences between the Mucha and the Lie-Fang, partly because the latter was a two-seat aircraft and therefore longer, with a much modified nose and more strongly forward-swept wings; the Lie-Fang’s fuselage was a simpler, flat sided structure compared with the Mucha’s oval section monocoque and the empennage was more angular.
The Lie-Fang 1 (English: Liberation 1), some sources Jeifang 1, is wood framed, with some use of the local “poton” wood and with a mixture of plywood and fabric covering. It has a high mid mounted single spar wing with a plywood covered torsion box leading edge, Behind the spar the wing is fabric covered. In plan it is straight tapered with unswept leading edges, resulting in forward sweep of 2° at one quarter chord. There is 4° of dihedral and 2° of washout. Its ailerons are slotted and fabric covered and spoilers, mounted behind the spar at about one third span, open above and below the wing.
The wooden slotted ailerons are also fabric covered and there are spoilers on both top and bottom wing surfaces. The fuselage is a plywood monocoque with a light alloy nose-cap, and the cantilever tail unit is of wood with fabric covering.
The fuselage is a flat sided monocoque which tapers gently to the rear, with the straight tapered tailplane mounted on top of it and forward of the fin. The rear surfaces are fabric covered. The straight edged rudder extends to the keel and moves in a cut-out between the elevators, one of which has a trim tab. The cockpit, mostly ahead of the wing leading edge, seats pupil and instructor in tandem with a single set of instruments that they can both see. The fixed, two part forward canopy reaches almost to the nose; a rear transparent section opens sideways for access to both seats. The Lie-Fang lands on a fixed monowheel undercarriage under the wing, fitted with brakes and aided by a short, rubber sprung nose skid and a tail bumper.
The landing gear consists of a non-retractable monowheel with brake, and a rubber-mounted skid under the forward fuselage. The two pilots are seated in tandem under a large sideways-opening Perspex canopy.
The prototype made its first flight on 10 May 1958. It was cleared for cloud flying and classed as semi-aerobatic. It went into production at the Tchan-Tia-Kou manufacturing centre, Shenyang, and was intended that pupils should graduate from the Lie-Fang to the single-seat SZD Mucha, which it resembles in appearance, for their first solo flights and the Lie-Fang went into small-scale production for the Chinese gliding centres.
Wingspan: 15.00 m (49 ft 3 in)
Length: 8.00 m (26 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 18.5 m2 (199 sq ft)
Aspect ratio: 12.4
Airfoil: Göttingen 549 over most of the span, NACA 4412 at tip
Height: 1.35 m (4 ft 5 in)
Empty weight equipped: 242 kg (534 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 420 kg (926 lb)
Stall speed: 55 km/h (34 mph, 30 kn)
Never exceed speed: 165 km/h (103 mph, 89 kn)
Rough air speed max: 138 km/h (85.7 mph; 74.5 kn)
Aerotow speed: 140 km/h (87.0 mph; 75.6 kn)
Winch launch speed: 100 km/h (62.1 mph; 54.0 kn)
Terminal velocity: with full airbrakes 165 km/h (103 mph; 89 kn)
g limits: +4.5
Max l/d: 22 at 53 mph / 86 km/h / 46.4 kn
Min sinking speed: 0.8 m/s / 160 ft/min / 2.62 ft/sec at 38.5 mph / 62 km/h / 33.5 kn
Min sink: 2.6 ft/sec at 38.5 mph
Crew: Two
Shen Yang, near Mukden
Quantity production of Polish designed ABC, Bocian, Jaskolka and Mucha sailplanes began at Shen Yang in 1955-56. At about the same time, a design team was formed under the leadership of Dipl./Ing. J.Niespal of the Polish SZD (experimental glider establishment).
The first product of this team, which included Dipl.Ing Tchen-Kuei-Wen and Li-Ti-Tiun, was the Lie-Fang No.1.
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Markets kits for the Sherwood Ranger ST single- or tandem two-seat biplane.
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DN10 5HG Doncaster
United Kingdom
The 1947 Taylorcraft 47 was a post-war model DC, selling for $2,500.
Engine: Continental C-65, 65hp
Wingspan: 36’0″
Length: 22’0″
Useful load: 440 lb
Max speed: 105 mph
Cruise speed: 97 mph
Stall: 38 mph
Range: 380 mi
