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The Stolp SA-900 V-Star is an American aerobatic homebuilt biplane, currently produced by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co in the form of plans for amateur construction. In the 1990s it was also available as a kit from Stolp Starduster Corporation of Riverside, California.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 264. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The V-Star was designed as a low-cost, economical and easy to fly design, with a light wing loading and short runway requirements. It features a strut-braced biplane layout, with cabane struts, interplane struts and flying wires, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.〔 The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing. Its span wings are made from spruce and plywood, with the whole aircraft covered with doped aircraft fabric. The wings employ a Clark YH airfoil and have a total area of . The engine used is the Continental A65 or other similar powerplants.〔 The V-Star has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is .〔 The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a engine is and the landing roll is .〔 The designer estimates the construction time from the kit that was available in the 1990s as 1800 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「Stolp SA-900 V-Star」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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