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The Mooney M-18 "Mite" is a low-wing, single-place monoplane with retractable, tricycle landing gear.〔M.R. Montgomery & Gerald Foster: ''A Field Guide to Airplanes - Second Edition'', p. 46. Houghton Milflin Company 1992. ISBN 978-0-395-62888-1〕〔Plane and Pilot: ''1978 Aircraft Directory'', p. 53. Werner & Werner Corp Publishing, 1978. ISBN 0-918312-00-0〕 The Mite was designed by Al Mooney and was intended as a personal airplane marketed to fighter pilots returning from World War II.〔 ==Development== The M-18 design goal was extremely low operating costs.〔 The Mite is constructed mainly of fabric-covered wood, with a single spruce and plywood "D" wing spar. The wing aft of the spar is fabric-covered.〔 The airfoil selected for the design was the NACA 64A215. The M-18 represented the first time a NACA 6-series airfoil had been used on a civil aircraft after World War II.〔 The aircraft featured a unique "safe-trim" system. This mechanical device links the wing flaps to the tail trim system and automatically adjusts the horizontal stabilizer angle when the flaps are deflected, reducing or eliminating pitch changes when the flaps are lowered.〔 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「Mooney M-18 Mite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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