Piper PA-8 Skycycle
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Piper PA-8 Skycycle
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The Piper PA-8 Skycycle was a 1940s [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] single-seat light aircraft designed and built by [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] at [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. Towards the end of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] Piper announced a number of aircraft it intended to build after the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
One of these was the PWA-8 (Post War Airplane 8. )
An aerodynamic test aircraft was built with the name Cub Cycle and it first flew on 27 August 1944 with a small two cylinder Franklin engine.
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The Piper PA-8 Skycycle was a 1940s [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] single-seat light aircraft designed and built by [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] at [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. Towards the end of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] Piper announced a number of aircraft it intended to build after the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
One of these was the PWA-8 (Post War Airplane 8. )
An aerodynamic test aircraft was built with the name Cub Cycle and it first flew on 27 August 1944 with a small two cylinder Franklin engine.
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The Franklin engine was replaced by a 37hp Continental A-40-3 and the aircraft first flew with the Continental engine on 12 September 1944.
The Skycycle was a fabric-covered mid-wing single-engined single-seat monoplane with a tailwheel landing gear.
The fuselage was produced using a belly fuel tank as used on the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
The Cub Cycle was scrapped and a similar but new aircraft was built with the name Skycycle.
The Skycycle first flew on 29 January 1945 using the same Continental engine as the Cub Cycle.
The aircraft was further modified in [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] with a 55hp Lycoming O-145-A2 engine and designated the PA-8 Skycycle.
No further examples were built.
The Skycycle was a fabric-covered mid-wing single-engined single-seat monoplane with a tailwheel landing gear.
The fuselage was produced using a belly fuel tank as used on the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
The Cub Cycle was scrapped and a similar but new aircraft was built with the name Skycycle.
The Skycycle first flew on 29 January 1945 using the same Continental engine as the Cub Cycle.
The aircraft was further modified in [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] with a 55hp Lycoming O-145-A2 engine and designated the PA-8 Skycycle.
No further examples were built.
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A replica of the PA-8 Skycycle, the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], was built in 1995 by Ernst W. Carlson and produced by [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. Carlson intended to sell the aircraft in kit form, but no orders were forthcoming and the prototype was donated to the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], since the original PA-8 was no longer in existence.
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References
- Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, page 162-164. BAI Communications. [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]
- Downey, Julia: 1999 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 15, Number 12, December 1998, page 42. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
- Downey, Julia: 2001 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 17, Number 12, December 2000, page 39. Kitplanes Acquisition Company. ISSN 0891-1851
- Downey, Julia: 2002 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 18, Number 12, December 2001, pages 30. Kitplanes Acquisition Company. ISSN 0891-1851
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