AVCEN Jetpod
| AVCEN Jetpod | |
|---|---|
| Type: | STOL - airplane |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: |
Avcen Limited |
| First flight: |
August 16, 2009 |
| Number of pieces: |
1 |
The AVCEN Jetpod was an eight-seat, twin-engine STOL aircraft made by the British manufacturer Avcen Limited with a turbine drive.
history
The company was founded on October 18, 1988 as Quickmany Ltd. (later European Air Charter Ltd.) founded in London by Michael Robert Dacre (* January 12, 1956 - August 16, 2009) as a non-scheduled flight company and in 2004 in Avcen Ltd. renamed. The prototype was manufactured at Avcen Limited Malaysia in the Patimas Technology Center, a technology park in Bukit Jalil , a suburb twenty kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur .
construction
The Jetpod was developed as a VQ-STOL (Very Quiet - Short Take Off and Landing) aircraft. The length of the take-off stretch was given as 125 meters. These STOL properties should be achieved through a combination of horizontally and vertically arranged nozzles. The specified speed was 550 km / h and the purchase price was less than USD 1 million. The prototype took off on August 16, 2009, with Michael Dacre as the pilot, from Taiping Airport ( ICAO code : WMBI) in the city of Taiping (Malaysia) without the approval of the local aviation authority. The plane rose steeply after takeoff and toppled to the left at a height of 200 meters, crashed to the ground and went up in flames. Michael Dacre died at the scene of the accident, leaving behind a wife and two children.
use
Variants such as the military version M-300 , the M-400 for the navy and the U-600 as a UAV were planned .
Web links
- Avcen Limited website (offline) ( Memento of August 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Video of the crash on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ WirtschaftsWoche of March 18, 2005, accessed on March 18, 2010
- ↑ Bernerzeitung, accessed on March 18, 2010
- ↑ Article at Gizmag.com , accessed on March 18, 2010.
- ↑ accident report avcen jetpod 08/16/2009 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on May 21, 2017th