The 1974 Flying Wing built by Chuck Hollinger had tip rudders and elevons. Spill plates at the wing tips directed air flow to vertical stabilisers. The pillot had three axis control through a joystick, and weightshift.
Wingspan: 28 ft
Wing area: 170 sq.ft
Glider weight: 75 lb
Soaring plane, Germany, 1962
The French-built Holleville RH.1 Bambi was designed and built by Monsieur Roger Holleville and flown for the first time on July 27, 1953. It is a side-by-side two-seat aircraft and was unusual at the time to be among self-build types to make extensive use of synthetic resins and sandwich construction. It was originally intended to make construction plans available to clubs and groups, however, the design was sophisticated and plans to market kits were abandoned.
The Bambi is basically of wooden construction and the exceptional cleanliness of the overall design results in an outstanding performance on a 65 h.p. engine.
The aircraft has a low-wing layout and a fixed tail-wheel undercarriage.
The Bambi was initially operated by its designer from Guyancourt airfield to the west of Paris. By 1964 it was owned by Monsieur Gerard Chaplain and based at St Dizier.
It has visited the United Kingdom to attend light aircraft rallies including at Biggin Hill airport in Kent in 1967. The sole Bambi received a 90 hp Continental C90-8F engine in the early-1980s. In October 2001 the aircraft was donated to the GPPA (Groupement pour la Préservation du Patrimoine Aéronautique) which is operating the Musée Régional de l’Air at Angers Loire Aéroport, Marcé near Angers, France. The Bambi is preserved in airworthy condition in the Musee Regional de l’Air at Angers Aerodrome, 20 km north east of the town.
Engine: 1 × Continental A65, 48 kW (65 hp)
Wingspan: 8.38 m (27 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 9.9 sq.m (107 sq ft)
Length: 6.71 m (22 ft 0 in)
Height: 2.24 m (7 ft 4 in)
Empty weight: 289 kg (637 lb)
Gross weight: 499 kg (1,100 lb)
Maximum speed: 200 km/h; 108 kn (124 mph)
Cruise speed: 169 km/h; 91 kn (105 mph)
Endurance: 4.5 hours
Service ceiling: 4,500 m (14,700 ft)
Rate of climb: 5.5 m/s (1,080 ft/min)
Crew: 1
Capacity: 1 passenger
One example only of the Hollandair HA-001 Libel (Dragonfly) single-seat agricultural aircraft was built in 1957.
Netherlands
Formed as an aeronautical trading concern in 1956 specialising in the overhaul of aircraft and engines. One example only of the Hollandair HA-001 Libel (Dragonfly) single-seat agricultural aircraft was built in 1957.
The Holdsworth Sailplane was a single seater designed and built in 1931 by H.Holdsworth, the ground engineer of the Bradford & County Gliding Club.
Of conventional wooden construction, it was designed to have a high wing loading.
Only one was built and no CofA is recorded.
Due to other events, notably the Bullet 2100 project and Molt’s declining health, the Micro-IMP was not developed further. Jerry Holcomb went on however to develop, build and fly a refinement of the Micro-IMP design which he named the “Perigee”.
The Perigee, which was designed by Jerry Holcomb of Perigee Associates and initially called the Ultra Imp, first flew in April 1987 and is based on the TPG form of construction pioneered on the Aerocar Micro-Imp. This is a version of the same company’s Mini-Imp, which clearly provided the conceptual starting point for the Perigee.
The TPG (Taylor Paper Glass) form of construction was developed by Moulton B. Taylor, president and general manager of Aerocar, which was created in 1948 to develop Mr Taylor’s extraordinary flying car concept. TPG is a paper core (with metal inlays to accommodate compression loads) covered in glassfibre in a matrix of polyester resin and covered with ripstop Dacron fabric. The Mini-Imp and Micro-Imp both have retractable tricycle landing gear, but the Perigee uses fixed tailwheel landing gear with cantilever main legs ending in elegant speed fairing round the wheels. The need to accommodate a tailwheel led to an alteration of the Y-shape tail unit by comparison with the Aerocar types: in the Perigee it is turned through 1800 so that the vertical surface is at the bottom with the tailwheel attached to its lower edge.
The streamlined fuselaqe is of composite construction with spruce longerons, TPG bulkheads, cockpit floor, tailcone and side skins, a glassfibre nose and some aluminium alloy components. The braced high-set wing has an aluminium alloy/TPG main spar, a spruce/TPG rear spar, wood main ribs, TPG nose ribs, a glassfibre leading edge and fabric covering aft of the main spar. The full-span flaperons are of aluminium alloy sheet over polystyrene foam. The three tail surfaces are similar to the wing in basic construction, but have no wood in them. Propulsion is the task of a twin-blade pusher propeller behind the tail unit, and this is driven by an extension shaft running aft from the engine located behind the cockpit.
Fixed-gear, strut-based monoplane with Y tail, pusher engine. Wings fold for towing on highway. Optional retractable gear, cantilever wing. Powerplant: Cuyuna 430 drives controllable pusher prop. Landing gear: Fixed taildragger.
Information packages were sold but plans and kits never materialized.
Type: sport lightplane
Seats: one.
Powerplant: one 35-hp (26-kW) Cuyuna 430
Maximum speed 120 mph (193 km/h)
Initial climb rate 700 ft (213 m) per minute
Service ceiling 12,500 ft (3810 m)
Range 200 miles (322 km)
Empty weight 380 lb (172 kg)
Maximum take-off 720 lb (326 kg)
Wingspan 28 ft (8.53 m)
Length 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
Height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Wing area 81 sq.ft (7.53 sq.m).
Aspect Ratio 10:1.
Stall speed 40 mph.
Vmax 140 mph.
Takeoff run 300 ft. Landing roll 300 ft.
Fuel capacity 8+ USG.
1983: Jerry Holcomb, 1010 N.E. 122nd St., Vancouver WA 98664, USA.
LSA builder
Electrician Hans Hohl was not a successful aviator and little is recorded of his designs. None of his machines is known to have flown; the main criticism of Hohl always given to his non-existent airfoil. Even in 1912, when the army allowed the use the Exerzierplatz at Halle-Beesen – 10 or so miles from Merseburg, south of Berlin – the last-known of his monoplanes, “Hohl-5”, failed to make a sustained test flight.
High-wing monoplane designed by Arthur Erritt Holbrook and built by the Holbrook Helicopter Aeroplane Co. in Joplin, Missouri. At around the time of the founding of his company, Holbrook also filed (January 19, 1910) to patent an Aeroplane; rather a tandem wing monoplane fitted with both tractor propeller and vertical rotors – hence the name of the firm. Four years later, on February 10, 1914, Holbrook was finally granted US Patent 1,086,916 for his invention. It is reasonable to assume that this photographed machine, with shafts protruding above the wing, was a “first draft” to be augmented to a form visible in the patent of Holbrook, where two rotary propellers are visible. After its appearance in 1910, Holbrook’s aeroplane was never heard from again.
