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Dream Aircraft Tundra

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With more than 20 years expertise in manufacturing and with Yvan Desmarais’s flying experience on many different aircrafts, the construction of the first prototype began in 1998. The first flight was done at the Bromont airport on May 12th 2001 with great success. Following this first flight, many more are accomplished in the month and with the necessary flying hours accumulated by June 7th 2001, the special flying certificate can be delivered. On October 3rd 2001, the first flight on floats is accomplished, again with great success.

The TUNDRA is a four place kit plane in the STOL aircraft category (Short Takeoff and Landing) with a useful load comparable to bigger airplanes. This airplane will carry four adults, their luggage and enough fuel for a trip of several hours, even in floatplane configuration. This experimental aircraft is a true four place airplane.
The TUNDRA is offered in either a tail dragger or a tricycle gear configuration. The TUNDRA structure is already built to attach a tail or nose wheel and even floats (all required parts are included).

The TUNDRA is an all metal plane with a useful load of more than 1100 pounds and 58 gallons of fuel (219.5 lt).

Tundra
Engine: 200 hp
Undercarriage: Wheels
Max. take off weight: 2550 lbs
Design load factor normal @ 2550 lbs: +3.8 -1.7G
Maximum wing loading @ 2550 lbs: 13.90 lbs/sq ft
Maximum flap extended speed: 90 mph (78 kts)
Maximum cruise speed – Vc: 140 mph (122 kts)
Never exceed speed (Vne): 160 mph (140 kts)
Take-off roll: 400ft
Cruise speed 75% power and 1500ft: 132 mph (115kts)
Stall speed with extended flaps (Vso): 30 mph (26 kts)
Stall speed (Vs): 42 mph (37 kts)
Rate of climb: 1000 fpm
Service ceiling: 14 000 ft
Endurance: 5.2 hrs
Range: 673 miles
Length: 25 ft 6in
Height: 7 ft
Wheel span: 8 ft
Wing span: 36ft
Wing area: 183.6 sq ft
Wing chord: 5ft 1in
Horizontal tail span: 10ft 7in
Horizontal tail area: 39 sq ft
Empty weight: 1450 lbs
Design gross weight: 2550 lbs
Useful load: 1100 lbs
Fuel capacity: 58 US gl
Full fuel weight: 348 lbs
Design payload: 722 lbs
Wing loading: 13.90 lbs/sq ft
Power loading: 13 lbs/bhp
Cabin width: 44in
Cabin length: 112in

Tundra
Engine: 200 hp
Undercarriage: Skis
Max. take off weight: 2550 lbs
Design load factor normal @ 2550 lbs: +3.8 -1.7G
Maximum wing loading @ 2550 lbs: 13.90 lbs/sq ft
Maximum flap extended speed: 90 mph (78 kts)
Maximum cruise speed – Vc: 128 mph (112 kts)
Never exceed speed (Vne): 160 mph (140 kts)
Take-off roll: 650ft
Cruise speed 75% power and 1500ft: 125 mph (110kts)
Stall speed with extended flaps (Vso): 40 mph (35 kts)
Stall speed (Vs): 45 mph (39 kts)
Rate of climb: 800 fpm
Service ceiling: 14 000 ft
Endurance: 5.2 hrs
Range: 660 miles
Length: 25 ft 6in
Height: 7 ft
Wheel span: 9 ft
Wing span: 36ft
Wing area: 183.6 sq ft
Wing chord: 5ft 1in
Horizontal tail span: 10ft 7in
Horizontal tail area: 39 sq ft
Empty weight: 1604 lbs
Design gross weight: 2550 lbs
Useful load: 946 lbs
Fuel capacity: 58 US gl
Full fuel weight: 348 lbs
Design payload: 598 lbs
Wing loading: 13.90 lbs/sq ft
Power loading: 12.78 lbs/bhp
Cabin width: 44in
Cabin length: 112in

Tundra
Engine: 200 hp
Undercarriage: Floats
Max. take off weight: 2800 lbs
Design load factor normal @ 2550 lbs: +3.8 -1.7G
Maximum wing loading @ 2550 lbs: 15.25 lbs/sq ft
Maximum flap extended speed: 90 mph (78 kts)
Maximum cruise speed – Vc: 125 mph (110 kts)
Never exceed speed (Vne): 140 mph (122 kts)
Take-off roll: 1300ft
Cruise speed 75% power and 1500ft: 118 mph (103 kts)
Stall speed with extended flaps (Vso): 45 mph (39 kts)
Stall speed (Vs): 52 mph (45 kts)
Rate of climb: 600 fpm
Service ceiling: 14 000 ft
Endurance: 5.2 hrs
Range: 613 miles
Length: 25 ft 6in
Height: 9 ft
Wheel span: 9 ft
Wing span: 36ft
Wing area: 183.6 sq ft
Wing chord: 5ft 1in
Horizontal tail span: 10ft 7in
Horizontal tail area: 39 sq ft
Empty weight: 1692 lbs
Design gross weight: 2800 lbs
Useful load: 1108 lbs
Fuel capacity: 58 US gl
Full fuel weight: 348 lbs
Design payload: 760 lbs
Wing loading: 15.25 lbs/sq ft
Power loading: 14.2 lbs/bhp
Cabin width: 44in
Cabin length: 112in

Dream Aircraft

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In 1979, Yvan and Yves Desmarais founded, with their cousin Serge Gagné and backed by their mother Gisèle, the company D & G Inc. The company is specialized in Welding and assembly. After some modest beginnings in their home garage, D & G Inc. gains a solid reputation based on its integrity and the quality of its workmanship.
As the years pass, the company invests in new technology with the purchase of welding robots and in 1996, they move in a new 60,000 square feet plant. A couple of years later, the company invests again; this time, 1.5 million dollars is invested in the purchase of high technology machinery for sheet metal transformation.

Yvan Desmarais, the company’s vice-president, has always been fascinated by aviation. A pilot since he was 19 years old, he nurtured a dream which he transmitted to his business partners. His dream was of a highly secure plane; be it on wheels or on floats. A plane that would be solid, durable and easy to build.

With more than 20 years expertise in manufacturing and with Yvan Desmarais’s flying experience on many different aircrafts, the construction of the first prototype began in 1998. The first flight was done at the Bromont airport on May 12th 2001 with great success. Following this first flight, many more are accomplished in the month and with the necessary flying hours accumulated by June 7th 2001, the special flying certificate can be delivered. On October 3rd 2001, the first flight on floats is accomplished, again with great success.

2008: 565 Maisonneuve, Granby QC, Canada J2G 3 H5

Drake M-19

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Built by Justin Drake
LSA legal

Engine: VW 1835, 40 hp
HP range: 40-75 hp
Cruise: 70 mph
Stall: 38 mph
Range: 230 sm
Rate of climb: 550 fpm
Takeoff dist: 400 ft
Landing dist: 500 ft
Fuel capacity: 8 USG
Empty weight: 494 lb
Gross weight: 750 lb
Length: 16 ft
Wing span: 24 ft
Wing area: 104 sq.ft
Seats: 1
Cockpit width: 24 in
Landing gear: tailwheel

Dragon Light Aircraft Co Dragon 150

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Side by side two seat single engined high-wing monoplane with conventional three axis control. Wing has swept back leading edge, unswept trailing edge and tapering chord, conventional tail. Pitch control by elevator on tail; yaw control by fin mounted rudder; roll control by half span ailerons; control inputs through stick for pitch/roll and pedals for yaw. Wing braced from below by struts; 100% double surface. Undercarriage has three wheels in tail dragger formation; composite suspension on tailwheel and bungee suspension on main wheels. Push right go right tailwheel steering connected to yaw control. No brakes. Aluminium/fabric fuselage, partially enclosed. Engine mounted below wing driving tractor propeller.
Anodized aluminium tubing is seamless mandrel drawn. Aluminium extrusions are to British HE30 standard. Stainless steel cables, aircraft quality fasteners, Dacron wing covering, heat shrunk polyester covering to tail surfaces and ailerons.
The Dragon 150 is the first aircraft produced by the Dragon Light Aircraft Co, which is an offshoot of the independent airline British Air Ferries. It makes no claim to be revolutionary, but instead is intended as a robust, practical machine in which conventional aircraft pilots will feel immediately at home.
The Dragon 150 only just a microlight and is certainly not an ultralight in the US sense of the term. Designer Billy Brooks deliberately made the weight and wing loading as high as the microlight definition would allow, to maxi¬mise the number of days in which the aircraft can be used in the fickle British climate.
Although the prototype, which first flew on 10 July 1982, was powered by a Hunting HS525A engine, DLAC decided to fit the Robin EC44 to the production version.
Controls include a central control column, dual linked rudder pedals and dual linked throttles with a friction adjuster. A wide range of options is available, including 720 channel radio, electric start, parachute and extra instruments. Supplied as a pre cut, pre bent, pre drilled kit requiring 30 40 h to complete.

Dragon 150
Length overall 23.7 ft, 7.23 m.
Height overall 7.7ft, 2.35m.
Wing span 34.9ft, 10.64m.
Chord at root 6.2ft, 1.88m.
Chord at tip 4.8ft, 1.45m.
Dihedral 1.5 degs.
Sweepback 1deg.
Tailplane span 11.0ft, 3.36m.
Fin height 6.3 ft, 1.91 m.
Total wing area 189 sq.ft, 17.6 sq.m.
Total aileron area 30.8 sq.ft, 2.86 sq.m.
Fin area 19.5 sq.ft, 1.81 sq.m.
Rudder area 9.8 sq.ft, 0.91 sq.m.
Tailplane area 40.4 sq.ft, 3.75 sq.m
Total elevator area 12.4 sq.ft, 1.15 sq.m.
Wing aspect ratio 6.0/1.
Wheel track 5.7 ft, 1.74 m.
Wheelbase 18.2 ft, 5.55 m.
Tailwheel diameter overall 4 inch, 10 cm.
Main wheels diameter overall 16 inch, 40 cm.
Engine: Robin EC44, 45 hp at 6500 rpm.
Propeller diameter and pitch 72 x 42 inch, 1.83 x 1.07 m.
Toothed belt reduction, ratio 3.3/1.
Max static thrust 240 lb, 109kg.
Power per unit area: 0.24hp/sq.ft, 2.6hp/sq.m .
Fuel capacity 6.9 US gal, 5.7 Imp gal, 26.0 litre.
Empty weight 328 lb, 149kg.
Max take off weight 791 lb, 359kg.
Payload 463 lb, 210kg.
Max wing loading 4.181b/sq.ft, 20.4kg/sq.m.
Max power loading 17.6 lb/hp, 8.0kg/hp.
Load factors; +6.0, 3.0 ultimate.
Max level speed 66mph, 106 kph.
Never exceed speed 85mph, 136kph.
Max cruising speed 60mph, 96kph.
Economic cruising speed 53mph, 86kph.
Stalling speed 25mph, 40 kph.
Max climb rate at sea level 500 ft/ min, 2.5m/s.
Min sink rate 400ft/min at 28kph, 2.0m/s at 45kph.
Best glide ratio with power off 9/1 at 38 mph, 61 kph.
Take¬off distance 150 ft, 45 m.
Landing distance 100ft, 30m.
Service ceiling 14,000ft, 4270m.
Range at average cruising speed 100 mile, 160km.

Doyn Aircraft Inc

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USA
This Wichita, Kansas, company, offering conversions to provide more power and performance to Cessna models 150,170,172,175, and Cardinal, was taken over by Air-Mod Engineering Company of Oklahoma City. The Cessna 170 conversions were known as the Doyn Dart I; the Dart II of the mid-1960s was a refined version of the Piper Apache. Beech Travelair conversions were also completed.

Doyle O-2 Oriole / O-3 Oriole

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Doyle O-2 Oriole

William Burke of the Vulcan Last Company backed the Wilson and Harvey Doyle plan to build a two-place, tandem, open-cockpit parasol sportplane and the Vulcan Aircraft Division began design work in a rented second floor room and construction in a former street car barn in Portsmouth.

The resulting Vulcan American Moth was a hit, but the relationship among the principles was deteriorating and the Doyle brothers left to start their own Doyle Aircraft Company in Baltimore. They produced fourteen Doyle Orioles which were similar to the Moth before bankruptcy ended the effort.

The prototype flew on 15 October 1928 with a yellow and black paint scheme and was priced at $2,975. Doyle Aero did not survive the Great Depression economy and ceased operations after a short production run. Harvey Doyle became an aeronautical engineer, and Wilson Doyle would become a professor of Political Science.

Seven of the O-2 Oriole and one O-3 Oriole were all built in 1928.

The last surviving O-2 serial number A-5 (NX9531) was restored in 1984 after being in storage since 1934 and identified by its designer Harvey Doyle.

Doyle Aero Corp

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Two brothers named Wilson and Harvey Doyle were 1925 graduates of Harvard and Yale respectively and moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, where William Burke of the Vulcan Last Company. Burke backed their plan to build a two-place, tandem, open-cockpit parasol sportplane and the Vulcan Aircraft Division began.
The result was the Vulcan “American Moth.” The plane was a hit, but the relationship among the principles was deteriorating and the Doyle brothers left to start their own Doyle Aircraft Company in Baltimore in 1929. They produced fourteen Doyle Orioles which were similar to the Moth before bankruptcy ended the effort.

Doyle Moon Maid ROG-1

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Moon Maid started out to be a gyroplane, but after a couple of years the designer/builder, Richard Doyle, decided to turn it into a standard airplane, stretching the fuselage four feet and replacing the rotor with a pair of wings spanning 23.5 feet. He pow¬ered it with a Bob Huggins 1523cc VW conversion of about 50 hp, one of the first homebuilts to use VW power.

The aircraft first took the air (now as N12041) in June 1964. The Moon Maid initially had a 25hp VW1200, later received a 50hp VW1600 and finally a 60hp VW1840.

During its career the aircraft was modified several times and amongst others received a dorsal fin, a slightly enlarged vertical tail and a new cantilever undercarriage with wheel pants.

Although plans were available for amateur construction (for engines in the 35-50hp range), no further aircraft were built.

Engine Huggins VW 1523cc conversion, 50 hp.
Gross weight 660 lbs.
Empty weight 460 lbs.
Fuel capacity 12 USgal.
Wing¬span 23 ft 6 in
Length 18 ft
Vmax 90 mph.
Cruise speed 80 mph.
Climb rate 600 fpm.
Range 200 nm.