Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug
| SA-5 Flut-R-Bug | |
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| SA-6B Flut-R-Bug at Luxembourg Airport in 1965 | |
| Role | Homebuilt aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Stits Aircraft Company |
| Designer | Ray Stits |
| First flight | 1956 |
| Number built | 27 full kits sold, 1200 set of plans sold.[1] |
| Unit cost |
US$1250 in 1956 |
The Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug is a homebuilt aircraft designed by Ray Stits.
Design and development
The Flut-R-Bug can be built as a single place or tandem seat aircraft. The Flut-R-Bug was an early complete-kit aircraft, sold with a pre-welded fuselage. Stits planned to deliver 100 kits to the German market for homebuilding.[2] Examples have been completed in the United States and in Europe.
The SA-5 is a mid-wing, tricycle landing gear design with folding wings. The aircraft was intended to be towed by a vehicle by the (lowered) tail on its main gear with wings folded along its sides. The cockpit can be open, or covered with a bubble canopy. The fuselage is constructed from welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering. The wings use spruce wooden spars with fabric covering.[3]
Variants
- SA-5A
- Single place variant
- SA-6A
- Two seat tandem variant with a 1,015 lb (460 kg) gross weight.[4]
- SA-6B
- Two seat variant with wider span wings and larger tail surface.[5]
Specifications (Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug)
Data from Sport Aviation
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 1 passenger
- Length: 17 ft (5.2 m)
- Wingspan: 23 ft (7.0 m)
- Wing area: 103.5 sq ft (9.62 m2)
- Airfoil: NACA 4412
- Empty weight: 528 lb (239 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 9 U.S. gallons (34 L; 7.5 imp gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 Horizontally opposed piston, 65 hp (48 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed Sensenich, 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) diameter
Performance
- Maximum speed: 87 kn; 161 km/h (100 mph)
- Cruise speed: 70 kn; 129 km/h (80 mph)
- Stall speed: 35 kn; 64 km/h (40 mph)
- Service ceiling: 12,000 ft (3,700 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (5.1 m/s)
- Wing loading: 6.4 lb/sq ft (31 kg/m2)
References
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- ↑ Ronald J. Wanttaja. Kitplane Construction. p. 5.
- ↑ "Check Pilot Report ion the Flut-R-Bug". Flying Magazine. July 1956.
- ↑ Sport Aviation: 25. January 1959. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "EAA Fly-In". Flying Magazine: 36. November 1960.
- ↑ Dean McCarty (March 1957). "Report on the Stits Homebuilt". Flying Magazine.