Lockspeiser LDA-01

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name=Land Development Aircraft


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type=Experimental utility transport
manufacturer=Lockspeiser
designer=David Lockspeiser
first flight=24 August avyear|1971
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status=Destroyed, cancelled from register.
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variants with their own articles=The Lockspeiser LDA-01 (Land Development Aircraft) was a British seven-tenths scale research and development aircraft, which was designed and built by David Lockspeiser to prove a concept for a low-cost utility transport.

The LDA-01 was a single-seat canard monoplane, fabric covered with metal construction. It had a canard foreplane which was the same size as each mainplane. The wing was mounted at the rear-end of the box structure fuselage which was fitted with a four wheeled landing gear. It was designed to be fitted with a detachable payload container to allow easy conversion between roles, and was powered by a rear-mounted pusher engine. The LDA-01 "G-AVOR" first flew on 24 August 1971 at Wisley in Surrey, under the power of a 85 hp (63 kW) Continental C85 piston engine, but was later refitted with a more powerful Lycoming O-320 engine. The aircraft (which by this time had been re-registered "G-UTIL") was cancelled from the aircraft register as destroyed in 1987. [cite web |url= http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=G-AVOR|title= GINFO Search Results, G-AVOR|accessdate=2008-01-07 |publisher=CAA|format= |work= ] [cite web |url= http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=G-UTIL|title=GINFO Search Results, G-UTIL |accessdate=2008-01-07 |publisher=CAA|format= |work= ]

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height m=2.77
height ft=9
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wing area sqm=10.46
wing area sqft=112.6
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empty weight kg=561
empty weight lb=1,236
gross weight kg=733
gross weight lb=1,617
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eng1 type=Lycoming O-320
eng1 kw=119
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cruise speed kmh=170
cruise speed mph=106
range km=481
range miles=299
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References

* Jackson, A.J."British Civil Aircraft since 1919" Volume 3, 1974, Putnam, London, ISBN 0 370 10014 X, Page 259
* Taylor, John W.R, (ed). "Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1976-77". London: Macdonald and Jane's. 1976. Page 190. ISBN 0354 00538 3.

External links

[http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Visschedijk/6880.htm 1000aircraftphotos.com - Photos of LDA-01]