Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fanstar
| Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fanstar | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Touring plane |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: |
Rhein-Flugzeugbau GmbH |
| First flight: |
n / A |
| Commissioning: |
n / A |
| Number of pieces: |
0 |
The design by Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fanstar was a four-seat development of the Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fanliner for the North American market from 1984. The design was later abandoned and not implemented.
history
The design by Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fanstar was created in the mid-1980s at a request from Canadian Bill Rice , who had Fanstar Partners Inc. , which he founded, investigate the production and sales opportunities for Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fanliner in North America . With funding from the provincial government of Manitoba , Rice planned to set up a fanliner production facility in Canada. Notwithstanding the two prototypes of the seventies, the Canadian Fanliner should a Mazda - Wankel engine are equipped. The use of the Whisper Fan jacket screw , which is under development at Rhein-Flugzeugbau , was also examined. During a sales tour in 1987, during which Rice presented the Fanliner II to North American flight schools as a training aircraft, the need for an enlarged Fanliner version with more than two seats became apparent. As a result, the enlarged design of the four-seater Fanstar 200 was created at Rhein-Flugzeugbau.
Fanstar Partners did not succeed in realizing the necessary financing to set up a series production in Canada. After MBB was not interested in participating either, the Fanstar project was abandoned in the late 1980s.
construction
For the four-seater Fanstar 200, Hanno Fischer resorted to the construction of the Rhein-Flugzeugbau Fantrainer , for which a new, four-seater plastic cabin was essentially designed. As with the Fantrainer, the plastic wings of the LFU-205 should also be used with the Fanstar 200 . An Allison 250-C20B turbine with 420 hp was to be used as the drive .
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Fan star | Fan star 200 |
|---|---|---|
| Crew / passengers | 2 | 4th |
| length | 6.10 m | 6.59 m |
| span | 9.61 | 9.61 m |
| height | 2.03 | 2.27 m |
| Wing area | 13 m² | 13 m² |
| Empty mass | 1140 kg | |
| Takeoff mass | 1760 kg | |
| Top speed | - | 370 km / h |
| Range | 1000 km | |
| Engines | a Mazda rotary engine; 200 hp | an Allison 250-C20B ; 420 hp |
See also
literature
- Paul Zöller: Rhein-Flugzeugbau GmbH and Fischer Flugmechanik . 1st edition, 2016, BoD-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7431-1823-2
- Eric Weiner: Fanstar , Flying Magazine, Aug. 1987