The Star-Lite Warp 1-A is an American
homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by
Star-Lite Engineering of
Englewood, Ohio
Englewood is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, and a northern suburb of Dayton. The population was 13,465 at the time of the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton metropolitan area.
History
Although Englewood was not actually founded until 1841 ...
, introduced in 1996. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.
[Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 257. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ]
Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US
FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles
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rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of .
The Warp 1-A features a cantilever
mid-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a
bubble canopy, fixed
tricycle landing gear with
wheel pants, a boom-mounted
T-tail and a single pod-mounted engine in
pusher configuration
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.
The aircraft is made from composites. Its span wing is made with an
aluminum spar and
S-glass
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vinyl-ester resin, is detachable for ground transport or storage and has a wing area of . The standard engine used is the
Rotax 503 two-stroke powerplant.
The Warp 1-A has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is .
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a engine is .
The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 100 hours.
Operational history
In March 2014 one example, the prototype, was
registered
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in the United States with the
Federal Aviation Administration as an
Experimental - Amateur-built, although its registration expired in June 2013.
Specifications (Warp 1-A)
References
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External links
Official website archiveson
Archive.orgPhoto of the prototype Warp 1-A
Warp 1-A
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft