The Sport Racer is an American
homebuilt
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racing aircraft that was designed and produced by
Sport Racer Inc of
Valley Center, Kansas
Valley Center is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States, and a suburb of Wichita. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 7,340.
History
Valley Center was incorporated on September 29, 1885, and was named for its loca ...
. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.
[Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 256. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ]
Design and development
The Sport Racer features a cantilever
mid-wing
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, a two-seats-in-
tandem
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enclosed cockpit under a
bubble canopy
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, fixed
conventional landing gear
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with
wheel pants
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and a single engine in
tractor configuration
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.
The aircraft
fuselage
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is made from welded
4130 steel tubing. The span wing has a wooden structure, covered in
doped aircraft fabric
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and has a wing area of . The standard engine used is a
Ford Motor Company
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V-6 automotive conversion powerplant.
The Sport Racer 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, passenger and baggage is .
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a engine is and the landing roll is .
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied plans as 1600 hours.
Specifications (Sport Racer)
See also
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List of aerobatic aircraft
An aerobatic aircraft is an aerodyne (a heavier-than-air aircraft) used in aerobatics, both for flight exhibitions and aerobatic competitions.
Most fall into one of two categories, aircraft used for training and by flight demonstration teams, wh ...
References
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Photo of a Sport Racer
Sport Racer
1990s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft