The Taiwan Dancer TD-3 is a Taiwanese

amateur-built aircraft Homebuilt aircraft, also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. These aircraft may be constructed from "scratch", from plans, or from assembly kits.Armstrong, Kenn ...

produced by Taiwan Dancer Technology Co. of Nangang Village, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City. Designed by Chin Lien Wei, the aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 122. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 129. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. By May 2017 the company website had been taken down and the company may have ceased operations.

Design and development

The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with doors for access, fixed tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing while the wing is made from aluminum sheet parts, with all surfaces covered in formed epoxy polymer. Its span wing is supported by "V" struts, employs a NASA-HQ3.0 airfoil, has an area of and mounts flaperons. The wings can be folded in 15 minutes for ground transportation or storage. The recommended power range is and the standard engines used are the geared Volkswagen air-cooled engine and the Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants. The TD-3 was completed in 2007 and won first prize for an aircraft design, awarded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan), Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Specifications (TD-3)

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net/en/products3.html Homebuilt aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Taiwan Dancer aircraft