Wednesday - September 23, 2015
Air Shark
Named after the mako shark, Brazil’s Anequim school project airplane sets 5 world records
The Lycoming AEIO-360 engine, a 360 cu in flat 4 that weighs 300lbs and makes 200hp and runs at 2700rpm or less. With all the aftermarket goodies installed, it might make 220hp. Or not. The basic engine has been in production for more than 50 years now.
As you can see, the Anequim is not a big airplane. The actual fish is bigger.
Huh? wth? This wasn’t supposed to post yet. I did a Quick Save and went to bed, Oh well. I had been looking to see if there were any updates on the Bugatti 100P airplane, if it had maybe taken it’s second flight. And I ran across this. Pretty sure this is the same technical college down in Belo Horizonte that studied the Bugatti design with all sorts of CAD and computer analysis programs and decided it wouldn’t be stable at low or moderate speeds. So they went out and designed their own plane, and then developed the technology to build it.
While the wings and tail fins are quite different between the two aircraft, their bodies are quite similar ... double ended needles, with the pilot so recumbent he’s nearly lying down flat. Neither aircraft is very big, and both are mighty darned streamlined. That makes it all the more interesting to me, because Bugatti designed his craft as art, and the Boys From Brazil designed theirs a minimalist low drag shape, using the best computing tools available. Funny how similar they look ... and how natural ... like high speed fish. Air sharks.
Right. So with pretty much a standard out of the box engine, they built their lightweight wonder plane and took to the skies. And not only did it fly, it zoomed.
Here’s a link to a video of the little white shark setting the record for the 3km speed. (0:43) 521kph. 323mph. From a non-turbo 4 cylinder engine.
Maiden flight video right here. The white wonder just wants to fly!
The Anequim Project, a group of students and professors from Brazil’s Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), has built and flown the world’s fastest four-cylinder airplane. Anequim comes from the Brazilian name for the shortfin Mako, the fastest shark in the seas, a fitting namesake for the airplane that gobbled up title to five world records during recent flights in August: multiple speed records over various distances as well as a new fastest time-to-climb record.
1. Speed over 3 km with restricted altitude
Previous record: Nemesis DR-90 - 466.83km/h (Jon Sharp)
New record claim: 521.08km/h2. Speed over 15 km
Previous record: Nemesis DR-90 - 455.8 km/h (Jon Sharp)
New record claim: 511.19 km/h3. Speed over 100 km closed course
Previous record: W.Air Race - 389.6 km/h (Richard Young)
New record claim: 490.14 km/h4. Speed over 500 km closed course
Previous record: VariEze - 387.4 km/h (Klaus Savier)
New record claim: 493.74 km/h5. Time to climb up to 3,000 meters
Previous record: Pushy Galore – 3 minutes and 8 seconds (Bruce Bohannon)
New record claim: 2 minutes and 26 seconds
other links:
http://www.skydynamics.com/
https://www.facebook.com/AnequimProject
http://sportaviation.epubxp.com/i/555869-sep-2015/110
http://www.flyingmag.com/sites/all/files/imagecache/enlarged_image/_images/201509/Anequim-CEA-311.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/AnequimProject/photos/a.451586941569900.100207.316576858404243/937937772934812/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/AnequimProject/photos/pcb.942234729171783/942234612505128/?type=3
http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/2014/11/first-flight-brasil-takes-off-to-set-a-world-record.html
http://www.lycoming.com/Lycoming/PRODUCTS/Engines/Aerobatic/EngineData.aspx
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