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I also bought the plans for the STOL King but have not received them yet.
Although the general specs on this aircraft are enough for me to want to
build one I've tried to get more detailed information about this
aircrafts performance by emailing Preceptor aircraft twice and they
will not respond other than to say thank you for the email and that
they will get back with me later. Phone calls to their number only
takes me to an answering machine telling me to call back at 2 PM.
Doesn't matter, I prefer finding someone independent of them who has
built this aircraft themselves to answer the questions anyway.
Their specs say this aircraft will take off in 50 feet but no mention
of whether the aircraft is lightly loaded or at gross weight or even
which engine is needed for this performance. How about stall speed?
Their specs say 15 MPH, I assume that is with power on and full flaps,
anyone know?
Also, I found these numbers for the aircraft which differ by a large
amount with what is currently on their web site:
http://tinyurl.com/n4m6v
> STOL King — (Preceptor Aircraft Corp.); monoplane, high; conventional
> gear; 75-120; empty wt: 675 lbs; gross wt: 1500 lbs; fabric, tubing;
> seats: 2; plans: none; kit price: $17,000
>
Obviously, this is an old spec because their kit is now 25 thousand
dollars but why would the specs change, just to meet LSA or is the
airframe much lighter now? Is there anyone here who knows anything
about the real world performance of this plane?
Preceptors web page for the STOL King:
http://www.preceptoraircraft.com/STOL%20King.htm
If anyone else is researching this I'm putting links to all of the
sites I can find about the STOL King and or Storch homebuilts plus a
few others on a new yahoo group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Extreme_STOL- there is no activity there
but the links section of the group is full of lots of different
homebuilt aircraft which will take off and land in 300 feet or less
which is growing and may be helpful to others like myself who are
deciding on which extreme STOL aircraft to build.
I've tried to get the opinion of CPotter (post above) and although
very friendly and helpful in every other way he is reluctant to guess
on the performance figures I'm looking for because his project is not
finished yet. Anyone know someone who has one flying right now and how
to contact them ?
--
Christopher
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