The Meadowcroft Chinook is a two-seat mid-winged American homebuilt aircraft design first flown in 1958.
Development
The Chinook was designed for maximum stability on the ground and the air with a roomy cockpit.
Design
The wing was patterned from the
Ace Baby Ace
The Ace ''Baby Ace,'' a single-seat, single-engine, parasol wing, fixed-gear light airplane, was marketed as a homebuilt aircraft when its plans were first offered for sale in 1929 — one of the first homebuilt aircraft plans available in t ...
homebuilt. The aircraft is a tricycle geared side-by-side seat mid-winged aircraft with a steeply raked windscreen. Each wing is braced with two small wing struts attached to the lower fuselage. The low rudder is capped with a strut braced horizontal stabilizer in a T-tail arrangement. The main gear is sourced from a
Cessna 140
The Cessna 120, 140, and 140A, are single-engine, two-seat, conventional landing gear (tailwheel), light general aviation aircraft that were first produced in 1946, immediately following the end of World War II. Production ended in 1951, and ...
. The aircraft can be reconfigured to be towed on its main gear by a vehicle.
Specifications (Meadowcroft Chinook)
References
{{reflist
Homebuilt aircraft