Thompson expanded his experiment in powering a boxkite with a model airplane engine into full-size reality with twin vinyl-covered aluminum-tube frames and a 55hp snowmobile motor and a prop in 1972. A two-place tandem “flying box-kite” a test pilot, reported in his own words, “Great stability. I was 35 feet off the ground before I realized I had taken off!”
FAA registration N64492 was issued on 30 March 1973, seen as still valid in mid-2007. Marketed plans for $75.
Philadelphia PA.
USA
Circa 1972 built the Boxmoth
Built in 1956 by W Z Thompson as a two-place enclosed, low-wing monoplane, registered N4054A.
Engine: Continental A-65-8, 65hp
Wing span: 16’10”
Length: 14’0″
Useful load: 240 lb
Cruise speed: 100 mph
Stall: 55 mph
W Z Thompson
Harrodsburg KY.
USA
Circa 1956 built a monoplane
Built circa 1957, the Mighty Mite was a fully aerobatic single place enclosed high-wing monoplane, registered N5M.
Engine: Continental C-85, 85hp
Wingspan: 16’0″
Length: 17’0″
Max speed: 165 mph
Cruise: 150 mph
Stall: 50 mph
Range: 300 mi
Built in the 1950s, the Poncho single place mid-wing midget racer proved too tricky for competition flying. The forward fuselage was incorporated in the Thompson Mighty Mite.
The 1949 Midget racer Screaming Meany (p: Carl Thompson) was a single-place enclosed low-wing monoplane powered by an 85hp Continental C-85. Registration was N1210M.
Wakefield MA.
USA
Circa 1949-57 built a Midget, Poncho and Mighty Mite
A tandem two-seat primary trainer, the THK-15 was an updated Magister, made of metal, and with a cockpit canopy.
Of 100 ordered for the Turkish Air Force, 60 had been delivered and production ceased in 1956.
54 were used by the Turkish Air Force 1955-1963 and the remaining THK-15 were donated to the Jordan Royal Air Force.
After the change to MKEK the MKEK-4 designation was used.
MKEK 4 Ugur
Engine: DH Gipsy Major 10 Mk.I, 145 hp
Wing span: 31 ft 2.5 in / 9.50 m
Wing area: 171 sq.ft
Length: 24 ft 7.25 in
Empty weight: 1465 lb
Loaded weight: 2045 lb
Max speed: 135 mph
Cruise: 110 mph
ROC: 800 fpm
Service ceiling: 16,000 ft
Range: 300 mi
Seats: 2 tandem
The THK-14 1950 side-by-side two-seat training glider was only built as a prototype.
In 1952 Makina ve Kimya Endustrisi Kurumu / MKEK took over THK factory at Ankara, together with existing designs and the THK Prototype 14 became the MKEK Model 6.
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