| Constructeur(s) | | Constructeur | Construits | | Sandy Jr. HUDSON, Black Mountain (North Carolina, USA) | 1 | | Nombre total de constructions | 1 |
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| Infos techniques | The Tri-Motor is a powered conversion of a Schweizer SGU 1-19 single-seat sailplane fitted with three West Bend go-kart engines producing a total of 17.3hp and each driving a 2ft 1 in diameter two-blade wooden pusher propeller. Two West Bend Model 70013 engines are mounted on pylons on each side of the fuselage aft of the cockpit and between the wing bracing struts, and a West Bend Model 70012 is carried on a pylon on top of the rear fuselage in front of the fin. The total fuel capacity is approximately 2 US gallons, a small separate tank for the rear engine being mounted on the fin leading edge.
The standard SGU 1-19 is a utility and training single-seater of early postwar design with an all wood constant chord fabric-covered wooden wing with two spruce spars, spruce and mahogany plywood ribs and a ply leading edge. The fuselage is a fabric-covered welded chrome-molybdenum steel tube structure, and the landing gear is an unsprung monowheel with a single skid mounted on rubber blocks ahead of it, and a rubber-mounted tailskid. The tailplane and elevators are fabric-covered welded steel tube surfaces, the tailplane being braced, and the fin and rudder are either of fabric covered wooden construction when the SGU 1-19 is supplied in kit form for amateur builders, or of fabric covered steel and aluminium alloy when factory built. The pilot could sit in an open cockpit, or a transparent canopy could be provided as an optional 'extra'. |
| Histoire résumée | Imaginé et construit par Sandy HUDSON Jr, un juge d'application des lois de Black Mountain, Caroline du Nord (USA), le Schweizer SGU 1-19 N91817 fut transformé en motoplaneur à partir de mai 1962 et la construction fur achevée en septembre 1963, pour un coût de 1.000 $ ; En 1963, M. Hudson obtint avec son Trimotor le prix de l'appareil de plus faible puissance au Fly-In de l'E.A.A. (Experimental Aircraft Assocation). |
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