Rutan Quickie

infobox Aircraft
name = Quickie
type = amateur-built airplane

manufacturer = Quickie Aircraft Corporation

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caption = Quickie Q2
designer = Burt Rutan, Tom Jewett and Gene Sheehan
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status = kit production completed
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number built = 2000+
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The Quickie is a light single seat homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. One of the dozens of unconventional aircraft penned by Rutan for the general aviation market, the "original Quickie" is Model 54 in Rutan’s design series.Fact|date=January 2008

The Q2 is a two seater in kit form and marketed by the Quickie Aircraft Corporation founded by Tom Jewett, and Gene Sheehan. cite web|url = http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/Quickie/|title = Quickie|accessdate = 2008-10-01|last = Canada Aviation Museum|authorlink = |year = undated] Over 2000 kits were sold before production ended. Appearing at first glance to be a modified biplane or canard design, the Quickie is in fact a "tandem wing aircraft"; both the front and rear wings are full airfoils. The forward wing is technically a canard, fitted with elevators, but it provides about 60% of the lift. The aft wing serves as horizontal tail, although all pitch control comes from the forward canard. Highly efficient, and of composite construction, the Quickie and Q2 are typically Rutan aircraft designs.

Development

The Quickie was designed in 1977 by Burt Rutan, with the prototype construction commenced in August of that year. The design was frozen in January 1978.

The design of the Quickie was optimized to be a minimal number of fiberglass components : the fuselage/fin, front wing and rear wing. Integration of components was a high priority, and the engine choices very wide, though again in a quest for simplicity, the prototype used a VW Beetle flat-four engine as a power plant.Fact|date=January 2008

Rutan was later to state that the design was meant to echo the famous X-Wing of Star Wars, making the Quickie a very attractive as well as exciting aircraft for a first-time homebuilder.Fact|date=January 2008

Kit production was commneced in June 1978 and by the late 1990s over 3,000 single and two seater kits had been produced and sold.

Variants

There are three main versions of Rutan's design. ;Quickie:The original model has one seat and is powered by an 18 horsepower (14 kW) engine;Quickie Q2:This two seater has a 64 horsepower (48 kW) Volkswagen engineFact|date=January 2008 ;Q200:This two seater model is faster than the Q2 with a 105 horsepower (78 kW) Continental O-200 engine and uses a different airfoil for the canardFact|date=January 2008

Both the Q2 and the Q200 can be constructed as Tri-Qs, featuring tricycle rather than conventional landing gear.Fact|date=January 2008

pecifications (Quickie Q2)

aircraft specifications

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ref=QuickieBuilderscite web | url=http://www.quickiebuilders.org/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi?answer=980714241&id=980713619 | title=What are the specifications for a Q2? | work=Quickie Builders Association | accessdate=2006-04-14 ] "and" Western Canada Aviation Museumcite web | url=http://www.wcam.mb.ca/AC/QUICKIE2.html | title=Quickie 2 C-GIKP | work=Western Canada Aviation Museum | accessdate=2006-04-14 ]
crew=one pilot
capacity=one passenger
length main=19 ft 10 in
length alt=6.05 m
span main=16 ft 8 in
span alt=5.08 m
height main= 4 ft 5 in
height alt=1.35 m
area main=67 ft²
area alt=6.22 m²
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empty weight main=490 lb
empty weight alt=222 kg
useful load main=510 lb
useful load alt=231 kg
max takeoff weight main=1,000 lb
max takeoff weight alt=454 kg

engine (prop)=Revmaster 2100-DQ
type of prop=converted auto-engine
number of props=1
power main=64 hp
power alt=47.7 kW
power more=at 3,200 rpm

max speed main=180 mph
max speed alt=290 km/h
cruise speed main=140 mph
cruise speed alt=225 km/h
never exceed speed main=200 mph
never exceed speed alt=322 km/h
stall speed main=
stall speed alt=
range main=550 mi
range alt=885 km
climb rate main=1,200 ft/min
climb rate alt=6.10 m/s

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ee also

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* EAM Eagle X-TS
* Viking Dragonfly

sequence=Rutan Aircraft Factory Model
33 -
35 -
40 - 54 -
61 -
68 -
73

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see also=
* Scaled Composites
* AMSOIL Racer

References

External links

* [http://www.quickiebuilders.org/ Quickie Builders Association]
* [http://www.quickheads.com/ Quickie Plans History Newsletters and Discussion Forum]
* [http://www.geocities.jp/kawak0073/Quicky24.jpgOriginal Quickie photo]