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Keli SkySpark

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This aircraft was designed and built by the Italian astronaut Maurizio Keli (Italian: Maurizio Cheli), with the assistance of the Turin Polytechnic Institute, DigiSky and several other companies (Sparco, Sicme Motori). As a prototype, an Alpi Pioneer 300 aircraft was used. June 10, 2009 made the first flight. The main design feature is electric traction. A battery pack weighing more than 70 kg is installed on the machine. The power of this electric motor is 75 kW.

SkySpark June 12, 2009 set a world speed record for this type – 250 kilometers per hour.

Keleher Lark-IK-1

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The Lark is an enclosed cabin cockpit midwing monoplane. This single-seat taildragger is relatively unusual with its strut-braced mid-wing configuration. The fuselage is of steel-tube construction, and the wing uses wood spars and ribs. The whole aircraft is fabric covered. Engines vary from 65 to 100 hp.

Gross Wt. 855 lb
Empty Wt. 555 lb
Fuel capacity 12 USG
Wingspan 23 ft
Length 17 ft
Top 135 mph.
Cruise 122 mph
Stall 55 mph
Climb rate 1000 fpm
Takeoff run 550 ft
Landing roll 700 ft
Range 300 miles

Keil-Myers Ballo-plane

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An electrically-propelled dirigible balloon combined with lifting aeroplanes. Its envelope constructed by Carl E. Myers at his balloon farm at Frankfort, N.Y. for Mr. W. M. Keil of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., this Keil-Myers HTA/LTA airship was presented the week of January 13, 1906 at the 69th Regiment Armoury Auto Show in Manhattan, of which the aviation exhibition element was put on by the Aero Club of America. Nothing is known of its existence afterwards.

Kébouroff-Vasiliev 1912 Monoplane

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Vissarion Kébouroff

The second monoplane design of Kébouroff and Vasiliev, built in 1912 in Georgia (part of Russia). In 1910 Vissarion Kébouroff took flying lessons from Blériot at his flying school in Pau, France where he obtained a brevet from the Aero Club de France. On his return to Russia he brought back two Blériot monoplanes which he flew there frequently. As these machines were rapidly worn out and in need of repair, Kébouroff worked together with Alexander Vasiliev to design and built a new monoplane to replace the aging Blériots. Kébouroff and Vasiliev actually built a pair, where the second (1912) is given as the same construction as the first but fitted with a 50 hp Gnôme rotary engine. Later a third monoplane was built by the two which was designed somewhat along the lines of the Nieuport IV monoplane.

Kébouroff-Vasiliev

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Vissarion Kébouroff (ბესარიონ ქებურია / Виссарион Савельевич Кебуров) took flying lessons from Blériot at his flying school in Pau where he obtained a brevet from the Aero Club de France on August 29, 1910, No.209, becoming the first licensed aviator from Georgia. On his return to Russia he brought back two Blériot monoplanes which he flew there frequently. As these machines were rapidly worn out and in need of repair, Kébouroff worked together with Alexander Vasiliev to design and built a new monoplane to replace the aging Blériots. Kébouroff and Vasiliev actually built a pair.