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- OBJECT TYPE
- civil/single seat/home built kit
- DATE
- 1978
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0246.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Quickie Aircraft Corp.
- MODEL
- Rutan Quickie
- LOCATION
- Mojave, California, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- FUSELAGE FIBERGLASS COVERED FOAM/ CANOPY- PLEXIGLASS/ WHEELS, RUBBER/ CONSOLE- FIBREGLASS/ GLASS, WOOD, PLASTIC, METAL, FABRIC
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 528.0 cm
- Width
- 508.0 cm
- Height
- 123.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Aircraft
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Quickie
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- California
- City
- Mojave
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- The Museum aircraft first flew in October, 1984 and was operated by the owner/builder until 1990 when it was donated to the Canada Aviation Museum.
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
A HOMEBUILT AIRCRAFT USED AS A RECREATIONAL VEHICLE - Technical
-
Made of glass fibre and foam, the Quickie was designed to be a fast and efficient, single-seat, sports homebuilt, powered by a small engine. The unusual tandem-winged , tailless aircraft was flown by each of its three designers on the day of its first flight. Since 1 mph (1.6 km/h) per engine horsepower at cruising speed is considered efficient, the Quickie’s 7 mph (11.3 km/h) per horsepower is remarkable. Construction on the prototype Quickie started in August 1977, with design frozen in January 1978. By June 1978 the Quickie was offered as a complete kit with engine included. During the 1980s a more powerful engine was introduced which could also be fitted to earlier versions. A radical development was the Quickie Q2, a two-seat model prototype which was built in Surrey, B.C. and first flown in 1980. By the late 1990s, 3 000 one and two-seat kits had been sold. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- ON TAIL & UNDERSIDE OF FOREPLANE: 'C-GGLC'/ INSIDE COCKPIT: 'EXPERIMENTAL [DYMOTAPE] NOTICE/ THIS AIRCRAFT IS OPERATING/ WITHOUT A CERTIFICATE/ OF AIRWORTHINESS/ AROBATICSPROHIBITED [DYMOTAPE]'
- Missing
- From CA of 02/19/1999 by Mike Irvin: No - Complete
- Finish
- AIRCRAFT BODY WHITE WITH BLUE STRIPE ALONG SIDES & REGISTRATION NUMBERS ON TAIL & UNDERSIDE OF FOREPLANE
- Decoration
- BLUE STRIPE ALONG BOTH SIDES OF FUSELAGE
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Quickie Aircraft Corp., Airplane, after 1978, Artifact no. 1990.0246, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0246.001/
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