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The Maule M-5 is an American four-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by the Maule Aircraft Company.


Design and development

The M-5 was a development of the earlier
Maule M-4 The Maule M-4 is an American four-seat cabin monoplane designed by Belford Maule and built by the Maule Aircraft Company. Design and development The design of the M-4 was started in 1956 by Belford Maule and the prototype ''Bee Dee'' first ...
with improved
STOL A short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft is a conventional fixed-wing aircraft that has short runway requirements for takeoff and landing. Many STOL-designed aircraft also feature various arrangements for use on airstrips with harsh conditio ...
performance. It has a 30% increase in flap area and enlarged tail surfaces. Two prototype M-5s flew in 1971, one powered by a 210-hp (157 kW) engine, the other with a 220-hp (164 kW) engine. The M-5 is a steel-tube and fabric high-wing braced-monoplane with a cantilever tailplane with a single fin and rudder. It has a fixed-tailwheel landing gear and an enclosed cabin with two rows of side-by-side seating for a pilot and three passengers. The aircraft entered production in 1974 and was named the Strata Rocket and the Lunar Rocket. A generally similar M-6 Super Rocket was also developed with a wingspan and more fuel capacity, smaller ailerons and larger flaps.


Variants

;M-5-180C :Initial production variant with a
Lycoming O-360 The Lycoming O-360 is a family of four-cylinder, direct-drive, horizontally opposed, air-cooled, piston aircraft engines. Engines in the O-360 series produce between 145 and 225 horsepower (109 to 168 kW), with the basic O-360 produc ...
-C1F engine, more than 94 built. ;M-5-200 :One aircraft modified with a engine. ;M-5-210C Strata Rocket :180C with a Continental IO-360-D engine in a revised cowling, 206 built. ;M-5-210TC Lunar Rocket :210C fitted with a turbocharged Lycoming TO-360 engine, 10 built. ;M-5-220C Lunar Rocket :210C fitted with a
Franklin 6A-350-C1 The Franklin O-350 (company designation 6A-350) was an American air-cooled aircraft engine of the 1960s. The engine was of six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed layout and displaced . The power output was . The 6V-350 was a vertically mounted, fan ...
engine, 57 built. ;M-5-235C Lunar Rocket :210C fitted with a Lycoming O-540-J1A5D engine, more than 379 built. ;M-6-235C Super Rocket :235C with a wingspan and more fuel capacity, smaller ailerons and larger flaps, 136 built.


Specifications (M-5-235C Lunar Rocket)


References

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