This is a spaceframe trike. The wing is able to be rotated 90 degrees for easy hangerage.
Starter 503
Empty weight: 145 kg
Wing span: 10.20 m
Wing area: 14.8 sq.m
Fuel capacity: 50 lt
Engine: Rotax 503 , 52 hp
MAUW: 400 kg
Seats: 2
Max speed: 120 kph
Cruise speed: 85 kph
Minimum speed: 45 kph
Climb rate: 4 m/s
Fuel consumption: 9 lt/hr
Price (1998): 75 500 Fttc
1998:
route de Paris
F-76520 Franquevillette
France
Trike / LSA builder
Designed and built by Ery in 1911.
Features a laminer flow, rivetless wing.
Engine: Rotax 447, 40 hp
HP range: 40-100
Wing span: 20 ft
Wing area: 57 sq.ft
Height: 5.5 ft
Length: 16.5 ft
Top speed: 135 mph
Cruise: 125 mph
Stall: 50 mph
Range: 400 sm
Rate of climb: 1100 fpm
Takeoff dist: 520 ft
Landing dist: 400 ft
Service ceiling: 15000 ft
Fuel capacity: 12 USG
Empty weight: 325 lb
Gross weight: 620 lb
Seats: 1
Baggage capacity: 2.5 cu.ft / 20 lb
Landing gear: nose
A single-seat monoplane with an engine of 20 hp.
The first machine built by Louis G. Ericson, president of the Eureka Soap Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, and member of the Springfield Aeronautical Club. It was a pusher biplane of Curtiss type with variable incidence lower wings with a span of 30″, a 4-cyinder. Knox 225 auto engine, removed from Ericson’s own Buick, and a total weight of 800-900 lbs. No flight was recorded. Ericson built three more machines. All crashed, and the last crash broke his hip and forced him to retire from aviation.
The Epps Monoplane, which made successful flights, was designed and built in 1912 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia. It was an open cockpit, single engine, mid-winged wire braced monoplane with conventional landing gear supplemented with skids.
The 1909 Epps monoplane was designed and built by Benjamin Thomas Epps in the USA.
The early American Ben Epps Monoplane of 1907 was designed and built by Benjamin Thomas Epps in Athens, Georgia. This machine is quoted as being the first heavier-than-air aeroplane in history that flew south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Machine can be identified by its high wing monoplane construction, pilot seat construction under the wing, tricycle undercarriage, pusher construction.
The Épervier Project was developed within the framework of an end-of-program project for the Mechanical Engineering bachelor degree at the Université de Sherbrooke, in 2008. The goal of the project was to design and construct a single passenger, homebuilt construction plane.
The team was made of David Rancourt, Nicolas Vincent, François Bérubé, David Barabé, Mathieu Lavoie, Gabriel Arsenault, Maya Caron, Jasmin Mc Fadden, Francis Beaucaire, Miguel Costa, Mathieu Lessard, Guy Bilodeau.
