Marquart MA-4 Lancer
| MA-4 Lancer | |
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| Role | Homebuilt aircraft |
| Designer | Ed Marquart |
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The Marquart MA-4 Lancer is a single place, homebuilt biplane.[1]
Design and development
The MA-4 is a single engine, single place biplane with conventional landing gear designed by Ed Marquart. The aircraft uses a constant-chord wing.[2][3]
Operational history
In 1966 pilot Chuck Wickliffe, won first place flying the Clark Dollar Bill Special in the biplane category at the Reno Air Races with a speed of 147 mph (237 km/h).[4][5]
Specifications (MA-4 Lancer)
Data from Air Trails
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m)
- Wingspan: 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Wing area: 116 sq ft (10.8 m2)
- Empty weight: 650 lb (295 kg)
- Gross weight: 1,000 lb (454 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 16 gal
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental Horizontally opposed piston, 65 hp (48 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed
Performance
- Maximum speed: 128 kn; 237 km/h (147 mph)
- Cruise speed: 96 kn; 177 km/h (110 mph)
- Stall speed: 39 kn; 72 km/h (45 mph)
- Rate of climb: 800 ft/min (4.1 m/s)
See also
- Related development
- Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
References
- ↑ Air Trails: 79. Winter 1971. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Ed Marquart, Flabab Airport pioneer dies". General Aviation News. 20 July 2007.
- ↑ Air Trails Sprot Aircraft: 70. Winter 1969. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Don Berliner. Airplane Racing: A History, 1909-2008.
- ↑ Philip Handleman. Air Racing Today: Heavy Iron at Reno. p. 110.
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