Engines – Power

Zuck-Whitaker Plane-Mobile

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Plane-Mobile NX30031

The 1947 Plane-Mobile built by Daniel R Zuck and Stanley D Whitaker was a roadable airplane with a floating, or pivotal, wing, free to change its angle of attack according to the vagaries of the air currents. There were no rudders or elevators in the tail, instead the wings had “ailerators,” a combination of ailerons and elevators.

Registered NX30031, it reportedly suffered a severe ground loop during a test flight.

Engine: Continental A-40, 40hp
Wingspan: 31’6″
Length: 15’6″
Useful load: 375 lb
Max speed: 90 mph
Cruise speed 80 mph
Stall: 40 mph
Range: 285 mi
Seats: 2

Zselyi 1910 monoplane

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Reported in Flight, April 16, 1910, as a monoplane which had just been constructed at Budapest by an engineer, Aladar Zselyi. The frame is constructed of spruce and steel-tubing, braced in the ordinary way by steel wires. The two main-planes fit into sockets in the main frame at a small dihedral angle. They have a span of 20 ft. and a chord of 6 ft., while the total lifting surface of the machine is 130 sq. ft., and the elevator has an area of 21.5 sq. ft. A two-bladed Chauviere tractor-screw, 6 ft. in diameter, is driven direct by a 30-h.p. Darracq water-cooled motor,

Engine: 30-h.p. Darracq
Prop: two-blade Chauviere 6 ft diameter
Wing span: 20 ft
Wing chord: 6 ft
Wing area: 130 sq. ft
Elevator area: 21.5 sq. ft
Length: 23 ft
Empty weight: 340 lb
Loaded weight: 475 lb

Zornes 1912 Headless pusher

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Charles A. Zornes seems to have started aircraft construction in Walla Walla, Washington, USA, in 1909. After they trained at the Benoist Aviation school in St. Louis, he and Johnny Ludwig together with some associates set up a company in 1912 in Pasco, Washington to manufacture aeroplanes. He also ran a flying school there, with the 1912 headless pusher and at least two others. Zornes crashed on April 19 1912, with injuries that did not seem to be life threatening. He appears in some lists of aviation casualties after the accident, but it appears he might have survived and lived until 1954.

Zongshen C80 / C100 / C115

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Zongshen Aero aircraft engines power LSA/Microlight/Ultralight and UAV applications.

The C80 series is designed to be externally compatible with Rotax 912 or 914 series engine mounts and accessories including propellers, internally they are not part compatible.

The range includes:
C80 – 80 HP twin carb.
C100 – 100 HP twin carb.
C115 – 115 HP twin carb with turbocharger.

All 914 size.

The engines are supplied with:
Gearbox + clutch setup (2.43:1 ratio) Starter motor Dual electrical ignition system Electrical regulator Water expansion tank Oil tank 20A DC generator Exhaust socket set 2x CHT sensors 1x Oil temp sensor 1x Oil pressure sensor 1x Mechanical fuel pump.

All engines supplied with 18 month or 200 hour warranty.