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The Pawnee Warrior was an American helicopter that was designed and produced by Pawnee Aviation of Longmont, Colorado. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 327. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The Warrior was designed to comply with the US ''Experimental - Amateur-built'' aircraft rules. It featured a single diameter two-bladed main rotor, a two-bladed tail rotor, both made from single metal extrusions. The kit's drive components were intended to be supplied complete and ready to install. The aircraft had a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield and skid-type landing gear. A cockpit enclosure was optional. The standard engine used was a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition Hirth 2706 powerplant.〔 The aircraft fuselage was made from steel and aluminum tubing and supplied in three major bolt-together sub-assemblies. It had an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage was .〔 The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the planned assembly kit as 80 hours.〔 The company said "the Warrior was used () a proof of concept platform to develop new models" and was followed by the two place Pawnee Chief. 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「Pawnee Warrior」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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