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The Culp Special is an American aerobatic homebuilt aircraft designed and produced by Culp's Specialties of Shreveport, Louisiana. The aircraft is supplied as a kit or in the form of plans for amateur construction.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 144. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The Culp Special is intended to resemble aircraft of the 1930s. It features a wire and strut-braced biplane layout, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with dual windshields, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.〔 The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing and wood, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has a wing area of . The standard engine used is the Russian Vedeneyev M14P nine cylinder, air-cooled, four stroke radial engine.〔 The Culp Special has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is .〔 The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 2500 hours.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Culp Special」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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