2000->

BK Fliers BK 1

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With tail dragger or tricycle gear configuration, the BK1 is a design to carry up to 6 ft 4 in 250lb pilot, 30 lbs of baggage, at 130 mph for 400 miles with an hour reserve. At the time it could be built from scratch for
under $10K.
In 2005 a BK-1 was flown 1200 miles to Oshkosh in 10 flight hours, with 2 fuel stops. The BK-1 also appeared at Sun-N-Fun 2006 and Oshkosh 2006.

Engine: Great Plains 1835 Volkswagen, 60 hp
Wing Span: 19 feet 4 inches
Length: 15 feet 4 inches
Cockpit Width: 24 inches
Cockpit Height: 40 inches (curved canopy)
Leg Room: 50 inches (firewall to seat back bulkhead)
Fuel Capacity: 15 USgallons
Empty Weight: 430 pounds
Gross Weight: 800 pounds
Fuel: 90 Pounds (15 USGallons)
Pilot Size: Up to 250 lb – 6 foot 4 inches tall
Baggage: up to 30 lb
Takeoff Distance: 700 feet
Landing Distance: 700 feet
Rate of Climb: 750 fpm @ 65 mph IAS (initial)
Max Continuous Cruise: 130 mph
Fuel burn max cruise :3.5 USgallons per hour.
Range 400 miles with reserves.
Economy Cruise: 100 mph
Economy fuel burn: 2.5 USgallons per hour.
Economy range: 500 miles with reserves.
Top Speed: 145 mph

Bird Symmetry

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In 1989, Cory Bird was a shop fabricator at Scaled Composites, aviation designer Burt Rutan’s company, when he decided to use his knowledge of composite construction to build aeronautical art. Built by Patti and Cory Bird, after 14 years of on again, off again construction, Symmetry first flew in April 2003.
The aircraft took the Grand Champion award at Oshkosh 2004.

Top speed: 284 mph
Seats: 2

Biplanes of Yesteryear Mifyter II

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An LSA legal two place version of the original Miifyter ultralight. It can be split in two parts (aft of the cockpit) for storage.

Cruise: 70 mph
Stall: 40 mph
Range: 260 sm
Rate of climb: 750 fpm
Takeoff dist: 150 ft
Landing dist: 250 ft
Engine: Geo Metro, 150 hp
Fuel capacity: 4 USG
Empty weight: 705 lb
Gross weight: 1150 lb
Length: 16.3 ft
Wing span: 21.5 ft
Wing area: 153 sq.ft
Seats: 2
Cockpit width: 40 in
Landing gear: tailwheel

B&F Technik FK-12 Comet / FK-Lightplanes FK-12

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Peter Funk started in 1994 with the development of an Ultralight biplane, which went in production at the end of 1997 as the FK-12 Comet.
The FK12 Comet is an ultra-light two-seat aerobatic biplane design using modern materials.
It has good flight performance with optimised laminar flow wings with 4 full length ailerons (flaperons) making it highly agile with good viability. The wings fold down in a few minutes giving it a width of only 2.42m for storage.

The FK12 has a max. speed of 220 km/h and engines used are Rotax 912 or 912S of 80-100hp. Price 2009: 46000 EURO

FK 12 Comet

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Engine: Rotax 912, 80 hp
Wing span: 6.7 m
Wing area: 13.4 sq.m
Empty Weight: 265 kg / 584 lbs
MTOW Weight: 450 kg / 992 lbs
Fuel capacity: 42 lt
Cruise: 103 kt / 118 mph / 190 kmh
VNE: 119 kt / 137 mph / 220 kmh
Stall: 35 kt / 40 mph / 65 kmh
Climb Rate: 1200 ft/min / 6,9 m/s
Take-off distance (50ft obstacle): 460 ft / 140 m
Landing distance (50ft obstacle): 520 ft / 160 m
Fuel consumption: 12.8 lt/hr
Certification: Vz
Seats: 2
Price (1998): 91 600 DM

Berends Rooster

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Standing 47 metres high (the height of a 16-storey building) and weighing 435 kilograms, the rooster was the biggest special shape balloon in Europe. The balloon’s creator and pilot was Alex Jan Berends, though the craft was built by Cameron Balloons in the UK in 2000.