Aircraft

Golden Circle Air T-Bird II / Tierra

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An LSA two seat kit aircraft was available as a tail dragger or with tri-gear. A highwing tube and fabric pusher, it takes about 100 hours to build with pre-sewn colored fabric. Stressed to +6 -4 G.
Price 2009: 18320 US$

Engine: Rotax 584, 65 hp
Hp range: 65-114
Length: 18 ft
Wingspan: 36 ft
Wing area: 194 sq.ft
Stall: 35 kt / 40 mph / 64 kmh
Cruise: 61 kt / 70 mph / 113 kmh
VNE: 96 kt / 110 mph / 177 kmh
Range: 160 sm
Empty Weight: 259 kg / 572 lbs
MTOW Weight: 1016 lbs
Fuel cap: 12 USG
Climb Ratio: 800 fpm
Glide Ratio: 7-1
Take-off distance (50ft obstacle): 350 ft / 107 m
Landing distance (50ft obstacle): 350 ft / 107 m
Seats: 2

Golden Circle Air T-Bird 1

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First flown in 1983, the LSA T-Bird 1 tube and fabric kit plane was available with tail dragger or tri-gear.
A highwing pusher that takes about 100 hour to build with pre-sewn colored fabric. Stressed to +6 -4 G.
In 1997 the engine lees kit was US$8992. The price in 2009 was US$12410 for the kit.
It was available in four engine sizes.

Engine: Rotax 503, 52 hp.
Speed max: 90 mph.
Cruise: 65 mph.
Range: 100 sm.
Stall: 27 mph.
ROC: 900 fpm.
Take-off dist: 70 ft.
Landing dist: 120 ft.
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft.
Fuel cap: 5 USG.
Weight empty: 272 lbs.
Gross: 572 lbs.
Height: 6 ft.
Length: 18 ft.
Wing span: 31.75 ft.
Wing area: 154 sq.ft.
Seats: 1.
Landing gear: tail wheel.
Glide Ratio: 7-1
Take-off distance (50ft obstacle): 160 ft / 49 m
Landing distance (50ft obstacle): 150 ft / 46 m

Engine: Rotax 447,28 hp
Cruise: 60 mph
Stall: 26 mph
Range: 120 sm
Rate of climb: 600 fpm
Takeoff dist: 75 ft
Landing dist: 100 ft
HP range: 28-65
Fuel capacity: 12 USG
Empty weight: 285 lb
Gross weight: 600 lb
Length: 18 ft
Wing span: 32 ft
Wing area: 154 sq.ft
Seats: 1
Cockpit width: 28 in
Landing gear: nose or tail

Golden Age Aircraft Waco II

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Strut and wire-braced biplane, modeled after classic Waco cabin air¬craft of ‘30s. Welded 4130 steel airframe, 2.8 oz. Ceconite covered. Three-axis stick and rudder controls. Aluminum ribs and spars. LANDING GEAR: Spring-type, inflated tires, brakes, wheel pants. Available complete, ready to fly. Instruments include altimeter, compass, electric tach and clock, CHT, EGT, Hobbs meter, Terra 4-channel radio, shoulder and seat belts.

Engine: ROTAX 36 hp.
Wing area 161 sq.ft.
Empty weight, 238 lbs.
Vne 80 mph.
Takeoff roIl 160ft.
Climb rate 550 fpm.
Stall speed power off 23 mph.
Top speed (controlled by prop) 63 mph.

Gold 1910 airplane

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Gold’s plane before the Lviv workshop in 1910

An airplane designed by Willibald Gold in Lviv. It was built by the Lviv Mechanical Laboratory of Witold Tranda.

The unfinished construction was exhibited at the First Lviv Exposition in Lviv. In the end, the construction of the aircraft was not finished and as a result no attempts were made to take off.

The Gold plane was in the high-wing brace system. Truss hull with wire strainers. Single surface wing covered with canvas.

Wingspan: 6.75 m
Length: 8.0 m
Wing area: 10.5 sq m
Empty weight: 110 kg
Gross weight: 190 kg

Goedecker Amphibium

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The second Amphibium, or “Amphibium II”, constructed by the Jacob Goedecker Flugmaschinen-Werke in 1912. At the end of August 1912 Goedecker flyer Bernard de Waal took the newly developed “Amphibium” to the First German Seaplane Competition in Heiligendamm district. Due to technical problems the Goedecker flying boat achieved only 4th place in a field of 6 participants. A second flying boat with a more powerful engine was built and tested at the Mainzer Floßhafen, and stationed in a boathouse. In a strong storm on April 6, 1913, the “Amphibium II” was severely damaged and scrapped.