A pilot of up to 250 pounds can comfortably jump aboard the Super Bandit. The single-seat, opened-frame can be equipped with a 94-hp EA-81 Subaru engine or it can morph into an ultralight with a 55-hp 503 Rotax engine. With the Subaru, it can reach 85 mph and with the Rotax, 63 mph. Useful load is 313 pounds with the Subaru or 348 pounds with the Rotax.
Kit prices in 2001 were:
Basic kit (without engine, instruments and propeller): $7500
Deluxe kit: $11,000
1 engine
Jatho Stahltaube
The 1911 Jatho “Stahltaube” (“Steel Dove”) monoplane was designed and built by Karl Jatho in Germany.
Jatho V
This 1910 Jatho Eindecker was first fitted with a 35 hp Koerting engine. It is likely that this Blériot-inspired monoplane was later identified as the Jatho V, later fitted with an Argus engine.
Jatho VI Eindecker
Not much is known about this pusher, which was designed by pioneer Karl Jatho (1873-1933) of Germany. It had a 50 hp Argus engine, a wing span of 11.8 m and a maximum speed of 70 km/h. It was built by the Hannoversche Flugzeugwerke GmbH in 1910 and was reported to fly well.
Jatho Motordrachen / Doppeldecker / Zweidecker I
Rebuilt from Karl Jatho’s earlier Dreidecker, which had been damaged on August 21, 1903, the Jatho Doppeldecker “Motordrachen” of 1903 was powered by a 9-12 hp Buchet motor, belt-drive pusher propeller.
Two Germans, Gustav Weisskopf and Karl Jatho, made the first motorized flight on August 14, 1901 with a 21-horsepower monoplane with 12 horses, a flight of 850 meters. The second was a similar performance on August 18, 1903.
It is on the moor of Vahrenfelder, that Karl Jatho flew 18 meters, rising to 1 meter of height, with his biplane type “Zweidecker I”. The propulsion was from a two-bladed propeller and single-cylinder Buchet engine of 9 horses.
Engine: Buchet, 9-12 hp
Wingspan: 8 m
Wing area: 36 sq.m
Length: 3.6 m
Height: 1.78 m
Jaskiewicz Electric
In September 1973 the Liverpool Echo covered a story about a man who was building an aircraft to be powered by a form of electric motor. Jan Jaskiewicz was the designer and builder, although at the time he was employing two women to do the fabric work for him. He had leased an old school for his workshop in Great Homer Street, Liverpool, UK.
The aircraft was of tubular steel construction and employed a large amount of glass-fibre areas. Empty weight was quoted at 300 lb. At that time a professional-looking fuselage had been completed and the wings were about to be worked on. The exact nature of the engine, which the designer referred to as a battery engine”, was not revealed.
Jarzab Klos
Single seat single engined parasol winged air¬craft with conventional three axis control. Wing has unswept leading and trailing edges, and constant chord; V tail. Pitch/yaw control by elevon; roll control by ailerons; wing profile Clark Y; double surface. Undercarriage has three wheels in tail dragger formation. Aluminium tube/wood fuselage, partially en¬closed. Engine mounted at wing height driving tractor propeller.
Began in 1974, it was not until July 1977 that the aircraft, a joint venture between Kazimierz Jarzab, S Kustron and S Wojton, made its first flight. It is a parasol winged tail dragger constructed largely from wood and aluminium alloy. The pilot sits under the wing, in an open cockpit but protected by a windscreen, and the two blade pusher propeller is mounted at the trailing edge of the wing. A tubular empen¬nage supports the V tail, which has in addition two fins, shaped like an isosceles triangle with rounded corners.
Length overall 13.8 ft, 4.20 m.
Height overall 3.6ft, 1.10m.
Wing span 23.0ft, 7.0m.
Constant chord 2.8ft, 0.86m.
Sweepback 0 degs
Total wing area 65 sq.ft, 6.0 sq.m.
Wing aspect ratio 8.2/1.
Engine: MZ 250, 16 hp.
Power per unit area 0.25 hp/sq.ft, 2.7 hp/sq.m.
Fuel capacity 5.3 US gal, 4.4 Imp gal, 20.0 litre.
Empty weight 209 lb, 95kg.
Max take off weight 419 lb, 190kg.
Payload 209 lb, 95 kg.
Max wing loading 6.45 lb/sq.ft, 31.7 kg/sq.m.
Max power loading 26.2 lb/hp, 11.9kg/hp.
Cruising speed 68mph, 110kph.
Max climb rate at sea level 400ft/min, 2.0mls.
Take off distance 660ft, 200m.
Range at average cruising speed 622 mile, 1000km.
Jarvis Jaybird
The design was originally by the Jarvis Manufacturing Co (as Jaybird) and first flew on 1 February 1946 with a 65hp Lycoming O-145-B engine and fixed tricycle gear. The Jaybird features a pod nacelle with a pusher engine.
The Jarvis Jaybird design was acquired by Volmer Jensen as homebuilt project soon after World War II and became the VJ-21 Jaybird with retractable wheels and 75hp Continental A75 engine.
Engine: 65hp Lycoming O-145-B
Cruise speed: 110 mph
Top speed: 125 mph
Landing speed: 40 mph
Range: 400 mi
Seats: 2 side-by-side
Wingspan: 45 ft
Length: 24 ft
ROC: 700 fpm
TO to 50ft: 960 ft
Price: $2500
Jaritz 1912 monoplane
Austrian Paul Jaritz after finishing his engineering studies in 1911 went to Leipzig, where he met Wilhelm Weidenauer, who was in the bicycle and motorcycle business and wanted to enter the field of aviation. So Jaritz built a steel-tube monoplane and Weidenauer constructed the 30 hp 4-cylinder engine, composed from two pacemaker engines. The Lindenthal airfield offered a shed for free.
The aircraft was ready in spring 1912 and test flying continued until summer. A couple of flights were accomplished, but the engine proved quite troublesome. It quickly overheated and lacked in power.
Weidenauer then built another engine, this time a 50 hp with 5-cylinders, probably a radial or fan-type. But before that was completed Jaritz was ordered home for his military service and the liaison came to an abrupt end.
JAP-Harding 1910 monoplane
Powered by a 40 hp air-cooled JAP V-8 engine, the JAP-Harding 1910 monoplane carried race number 8 from the May 1910 Lyon meeting. It did not fly there, but flew successfully in France and Britain.
The plane still exists, at the London Science Museum.
Span 30 ft
Length 27 ft
Weigh, 510 lb.
Speed: 50 mph
