The InterPlane Starboy was a proposed

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InterPlane Aircraft InterPlane Aircraft sro, also called InterPlane Aircraft, Inc., was a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Zbraslavice and founded in 1992. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for ama ...

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. The aircraft was intended to be supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction, but none seem to have been built.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 353. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.

Design and development

The Starboy design featured a cantilever

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, a two-seats-in-

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enclosed cockpit under a

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, fixed

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with

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and a single engine in

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. The aircraft was to have been constructed of a combination of

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and

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. Its span wing would have had a wing area of . The standard engine proposed was the

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. The aircraft was to have a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passenger and baggage would have been . The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the planned kit as 500 hours.

Specifications (Starboy)

References

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