A Quickie Q2 at the 2003 Arlington EAA Fly-In.

The Quickie is a light homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, Tom Jewett, and Gene Sheehan and marketed by the Quickie Aircraft Corporation founded by the latter two men. One of the dozens of unconventional aircraft penned by Rutan for the general aviation market, the original Quickie is Model 54 in Rutan's design series. A Quickie Q2 at the 2003 Arlington Fly-In. ... A Quickie Q2 at the 2003 Arlington Fly-In. ... The Northwest EAA Fly-In, known colloquially as the Arlington Air Show, is an annual Experimental Aircraft Association airshow hosted in Arlington, Washington at the Arlington Municipal Airport (IATA airport code AWO). ... Also known as amateur-built aircraft, homebuilt aircraft are constructed by one or more persons for whom this is not a professional activity. ... Elbert L. Burt Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is an aircraft designer known for designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. ... The Quickie Aircraft Corporation was founded in Mojave, California in 1978 to market the Quickie homebuilt aircraft, which were designed by Burt Rutan and company founders Gene Sheehan and Tom Jewett. ... General aviation (GA) encompasses all aviation other than scheduled airline flights and military aviation. ...

Appearing at first glance to be a modified biplane or canard design, the Quickie is in fact a tandem wing aircraft; both the front and rear wings are full airfoils. The forward wing is technically a canard, fitted with elevators, but it provides about 60% of the lift. The design has no horizontal tail, as all pitch control comes from the forward wing. Highly efficient, and of composite construction, the Quickie is a typically radical Rutan aircraft. Hs123 biplane. ... In aeronautics, canard (French for duck) is a type of fixed-wing aircraft in which the tailplane is ahead of the main lifting surfaces, rather than behind them as in conventional aircraft. ... A tandem wing aircraft usually involves two full-sized wings, both of which are full airfoils. ... An airfoil (in American English, or aerofoil in British English) is the shape of a wing or blade (of a propeller or ships screw) as seen in cross-section. ... For other meanings of elevator see Elevator (disambiguation). ... Lift consists of the sum (technically the negative product) of all the fluid dynamic forces on a body normal (i. ... Composite materials (or composites for short) are engineering materials made from two or more components. ...

Variants

There are three main versions of Rutan's design. The Quickie has one seat and is powered by a 20 horsepower (15 kW) engine. The Quickie Q2 has a 64 horsepower (48 kW) Volkswagen engine and seats two side by side, while the Q200 (also seating two) is faster than the Q2 with a 105 horsepower (78 kW) Continental O-200 engine and uses a different airfoil for the canard. Both the Q2 and the Q200 can be constructed as Tri-Qs, featuring tricycle landing gear rather than conventional gear. Volkswagen (VW) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... The Continental O-200 engine is an important aircraft engine. ... A Cessna 152 with a tricycle landing gear Tricycle gear describes a kind of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, arranged in a tricycle fashion. ... The Piper Cub is a popular taildragger aircraft. ...

External links

• Quickie Builders Association

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