请输入您要查询的百科知识：

　

词条 Stits Playboy
释义

  1. Design and development

  2. Operational history

  3. Variants

  4. Aircraft on display

  5. Specifications (SA-3A)

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. External links

name=Stits SA-3A Playboy image=StittsSA-3APlayboyCF-RAD.jpg caption=Canada's first amateur-built aircraft Stitts SA-3A Playboy C-FRAD at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

}}{{Infobox Aircraft Type

 type=Amateur-built aircraft national origin=United States manufacturer= designer=Ray Stits first flight=1952 introduced=1952 retired= status= primary user= more users= produced= number built= program cost= unit cost=approximately $1750 to build in 1971[1] developed from= variants with their own articles=Van's Aircraft RV-3
}}

The Stits SA-3A Playboy (also called the Stitts SA-3A Playboy) is a single seat, strut-braced low-wing monoplane that was designed by Ray Stits for amateur construction. The aircraft was designed and the prototype was completed in a three-month period during 1952. The design went on to become one of the most influential in the post-war boom in aircraft homebuilding.[2][3][4]

A side-by-side two seat version is known as the SA-3B.[5]

Design and development

The Playboy was the third of fifteen different aircraft designs created by Stits, who migrated in the 1960s from selling plans to developing the Polyfiber line of aircraft coverings and related paint formulas.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}

The Playboy was designed to be constructed from either plans or from a series of partial kits. The construction is mixed with the fuselage made from welded steel and the wings built from wood. The aircraft is fabric-covered and incorporates a sliding canopy. The aircraft is unusual in that the low wings are strut-braced.[2]

The engine range is from {{convert|85|to|160|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} with the {{convert|85|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Continental C85 the most commonly used.[2]

The first in the series of Van's Aircraft designed by Richard VanGrunsven, the Van's Aircraft RV-1 was a modified Playboy and directly led to the Van's Aircraft RV-3 and the highly successful RV line of aircraft.

Operational history

Having been sold in 1955, the prototype Playboy passed through several owners' hands before being donated to the Experimental Aircraft Association. Ray Stits was the first member of Chapter 1. That plane is now in the EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[4]

Canada's first licensed amateur-built aircraft was a highly modified Playboy that was built by Keith S. Hopkinson. Hopkinson used the basic Playboy design and incorporated a Piper J-3 cowling, a Cessna 170 propeller spinner, de Havilland Tiger Moth wing struts, Cessna 140 conventional landing gear and Stinson 108 wheel pants.[3]

In March 2010 there were still 41 Playboys registered in the USA, six in Canada and two in the UK.[6][7][8]

Variants

SA-3A

Single seat version, powered by a {{convert|85|hp|kW|abbr=on}} Continental C85[2]

SA-3B

Two seats in side-by-side configuration version, powered by a {{convert|115|hp|kW|abbr=on}} Lycoming O-235[5]

Super Playboy

A one-off design with two foot wing extensions powered by a {{convert|150|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Franklin[9]

//VanGrunsven RV-1">VanGrunsven RV-1

A {{convert|125|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Lycoming O-290G powered, cantilever aluminium winged modification of an SA-3A.

Aircraft on display

  • Canada Aviation Museum - first Canadian homebuilt aircraft, modified Playboy C-FRAD[3]
  • EAA AirVenture Museum - prototype Playboy N8KK[4]

Specifications (SA-3A)

{{Aircraft specs
|ref=Plane & Pilot,[2] Canada Aviation Museum[3] & AirVenture Museum[10]
|prime units?=imp


|genhide=
|crew=one
|capacity=
|length m=
|length ft=17
|length in=4
|length note=
|span m=
|span ft=22
|span in=2
|span note=
|height m=
|height ft=6
|height in=4
|height note=
|wing area sqm=
|wing area sqft=96
|wing area note=
|aspect ratio=
|airfoil=
|empty weight kg=
|empty weight lb=600
|empty weight note=
|gross weight kg=
|gross weight lb=902
|gross weight note=
|max takeoff weight kg=
|max takeoff weight lb=
|max takeoff weight note=
|fuel capacity=14 US gallons (53 litres)
|more general=


|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Continental C85
|eng1 type=four cylinder, four-stroke piston engine
|eng1 kw=
|eng1 hp=85
|eng1 kn=
|eng1 lbf=
|eng1 note=
|power original=
|prop blade number=
|prop name=
|prop dia m=
|prop dia ft=
|prop dia in=
|prop note=


|perfhide=
|max speed kmh=
|max speed mph=145
|max speed kts=
|max speed note=
|max speed mach=
|cruise speed kmh=
|cruise speed mph=130
|cruise speed kts=
|cruise speed note=
|stall speed kmh=
|stall speed mph=
|stall speed kts=
|stall speed note=
|never exceed speed kmh=
|never exceed speed mph=
|never exceed speed kts=
|never exceed speed note=
|minimum control speed kmh=
|minimum control speed mph=
|minimum control speed kts=
|minimum control speed note=
|range km=
|range miles=400
|range nmi=
|range note=
|endurance=
|ceiling m=
|ceiling ft=12000
|ceiling note=
|g limits=
|roll rate=
|glide ratio=
|climb rate ms=
|climb rate ftmin=1050
|climb rate note=
|time to altitude=
|lift to drag=
|wing loading kg/m2
|wing loading lb/sqft=
|wing loading note=
|power/mass=
|thrust/weight=
|more performance=
|avionics=
}}

See also

{{aircontent
|see also=
|related=
  • Stits SA-7 Sky-Coupe
  • Stits SA-11A Playmate

|similar aircraft=
|lists=
}}

References

1. ^{{cite journal|magazine=Air Trails|date=Winter 1971|title=The true cost of building your own plane|author=Leo J. Kohn|page=63}}
2. ^1 2 3 4 Plane & Pilot: 1978 Aircraft Directory, page 155. Werner & Werner, 1978. {{ISBN|0-918312-00-0}}
3. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url = http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/StittsSA-3APlayboy/|title = Stitts SA-3A Playboy|accessdate = 2010-03-06|last = Canada Aviation Museum |authorlink = |year = n.d.}}
4. ^1 2 {{cite web|url = http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Stits%20SA-3A%20Playboy.asp |title = Stits SA-3A Playboy – N8KK|accessdate = 2010-03-12|last = Experimental Aircraft Association |authorlink = |year = 2010}}
5. ^1 {{cite web|url = http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/AmateurBuilt/953.htm |title = No. 953. Stits SA-3B Playboy (C-FSHM)|accessdate = 2010-03-13|last = Dupas | first = Ron |authorlink = |year = 1976}}
6. ^{{cite web|url = http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=&Modeltxt=PLAYBOY&PageNo=1 |title = FAA Registry Make/Model Inquiry Results|accessdate = 2010-03-13|last = Federal Aviation Administration|authorlink = |date=March 2010}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://wwwapps2.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/ccarcs/aspscripts/en/quicksearch.asp |title=Civil Aircraft Register |accessdate=2010-03-13 |last=Transport Canada |authorlink= |date=March 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718042755/http://wwwapps2.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/ccarcs/aspscripts/en/quicksearch.asp |archivedate=July 18, 2011 }}
8. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=summary&aircrafttype=Playboy|title = GINFO Search Results Summary|accessdate = 2010-03-13|last = Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)|authorlink = |date=March 2010}}
9. ^{{cite journal|magazine=Sport Aviation|date=January 1959|title=Renfro's Super Playboy}}
10. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Stits%20SA-3A%20Playboy%20Specifications.asp#TopOfPage |title = Stits SA-3A Playboy – Specifications|accessdate = 2010-03-12|last = Experimental Aircraft Association |authorlink = |year = 2010}}

External links

{{commons category|Stits SA-3 Playboy}}
  • Photo of a Stits Playboy
{{Stits aircraft}}

4 : United States sport aircraft 1950–1959|Homebuilt aircraft|Low-wing aircraft|Aircraft first flown in 1952
随便看

　

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

　

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间：2024/11/12 15:44:50