Built by Franz Meichelböck and a friend in Ober Sankt Veit, a district of Vienna, in 1913.
Meichelböck 1913 Eindecker
Era
Meduna
In 1910 a monoplane of some type was designed and built by Meduna, in Czechia.
Meißwinkel-Frohmüller 1910 Gleiter
A glider built by Wilhelm Meißwinkel and Heinrich Frohmüller at Buchhagen, Germany; first flown on October 19, 1910.
Meger Heli-Star
The Heli-star is a two place, homebuilt three rotor helicopter designed by Mike Meger, flight director of Enstrom.
It was equipped with tricycle landing gear, using modified Enstrom F-28 helicopter rotor blades, gearbox and tail boom. Developed in 1969, it was first flown on 25 March 1971.
The helicopter can be flown from either seat with dual controls. The fuselage splits open at the windshield line, sliding forward for access. The helicopter was demonstrated with the front section slid open in flight.
Only the one was built.
Engine: 1 × Lycoming HIO-360-C1A, 205 hp (153 kW)
Main rotor diameter: 3× 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
Length: 29 ft (8.8 m)
Height: 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m)
Empty weight: 1,450 lb (658 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 2,100 lb (953 kg)
Maximum speed: 100 kn (115 mph; 185 km/h)
Cruise speed: 78 kn (90 mph; 144 km/h)
Service ceiling: 13,000 ft (4,000 m)
Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (5.1 m/s)
Disk loading: 2.1 lb/sq ft (10 kg/m2)
Crew: 1
Capacity: 1 passenger
Meckler-Allen New York hydro-biplane
The Meckler-Allen airplane was built by Allen Canton and John J. Meckler in 1912 for an attempt to make a transatlantic flight. At the time it was the largest airplane in the world, measuring 104 ft long, and 76 ft across. It had a long triangular fuselage, an auxiliary wing between the main biplane cell and the biplane tail, twenty-two tanks of gasoline, five engines and miles of rigging wires. It was constructed out in the open, at a place called Clason Point in the South Bronx of New York City, on the waterfront of the East River opposite LaGuardia Airport.
Medway Budget
The Medway Budget trike uses a Rotax 503 and Raven wing.
Medway Eclipse / Hybred
The Eclipse R, new in 1998, had a Jabiru four stroke on the double monopole chassis with a Raven wing.
When equipped with a Rotax 503, the trike is marketed as the Hybred, also with a Raven wing.
Eclipse R
Empty weight: 149 kg
Wing span: 11.0 m
Wing area: 15.0 sq.m
Fuel capacity: 50 lt
Certification: BCAR S
Engine: Jabiru, 80 hp
MAUW: 367 kg
Seats: 2
Max speed: 129 kph
Cruise speed: 100 kph
Minimum speed: 48 kph
Climb rate: 4.1 m/s
Fuel consumption: 9 lt/hr
Price (1998): £18,000
Medway Microlights
1998:
Burrows Lane
Middle Stoke
ME3 9RN
Rochester
Kent
United Kingdom
Trike builder
Mecavia Onyx Biplace
A tandem two-seat composites, built developed from single-seat Piel CP.150 Onyx and featuring rear-mounted wings and high canard. The fuselage is in wood and composites with the kit including all mouldings. The engine is limited to 55 kg for CoG reasons.
Onyx bi 582
Engine: Rotax 582 DCDI, 64 hp
Wing span: 9.20 m
Wing area: 16.07 sq.m
MAUW: 440 kg
Empty weight: 220 kg
Fuel capacity: 50 lt
Max speed: 185 kph
Cruise speed: 150 kph
Minimum speed: 64 kph
Climb rate: 5 m/s
Seats: 2
Fuel consumption: 13 lt/hr
Kit price (1998): 117 800 Fttc
Mecavia
France
Markets kit to construct tandem two-seat composites-built Onyx Biplace, developed from single-seat Piel CP.150 Onyx and featuring rear-mounted wings and high canard.
1998:
2 rue des Naudinières
F-37270 Larcay
France
