The V-STOL Pairadigm ( en, Paradigm) is an American twin-engine center-line thrust STOL

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that was designed and produced by V-STOL Aircraft Corporation of Fort Myers, Florida, introduced in the late 1990s. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 360. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.

Design and development

The Pairadigm features a strut-braced

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, a two-seats-in-

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semi-enclosed cockpit with a windshield, fixed

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and two

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-mounted engines, one in

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in the nose and the other in pusher configuration in the rear fuselage. The aircraft is made from bolted-together

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tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped

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. Its span high-lift wing mounts flaps, is supported by V-struts and has a wing area of . The tail is a conventional low-tail design. The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is and the standard engines used are two

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in-line twin-cylinder, two-stroke, single ignition powerplants. The aircraft 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 twin engines is and the landing roll is . The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 250 hours.

Operational history

By 1998 the company reported that 10 kits had been sold and one aircraft had been completed and was flying, with the design generally available from July 1998. As of May 2015 no examples were registered in the United States with the

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Specifications (Pairadigm)

References

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