Aerolab LoCamp

LoCamp
Role Amateur-built aircraft
National origin Italy
Manufacturer Aerolab SRL
Status In production (2012)



The Aerolab LoCamp is an Italian amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Aerolab SRL of Gallarate. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction, although the company plans to also certify the aircraft to JAR-VLA as well as produce a light-sport aircraft category version.[1][2]

Design and development

The LoCamp is intended to resemble a 1930s style light aircraft. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with polycarbonate windscreens, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.[1][3]

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with the wing built from wood or optionally aluminum sheet and its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 9.10 m (29.9 ft) span wing employs a NACA 4416 airfoil, has an area of 13.5 m2 (145 sq ft) and mounts flaps. The standard engine available is the 110 hp (82 kW) Rotec R2800 four-stroke radial engine, although the 65 hp (48 kW) Walter Mikron MIIIC was under evaluation by the manufacturer.[1][3]

Variants

LoCamp
Low wing monoplane model[1]
HiCamp
Parasol wing model, that uses the same fuselage as the LoCamp model[1][4]
BiCamp
Biplane model, that uses the same fuselage as the LoCamp model[1][5]

Specifications (LoCamp)

Data from Bayerl and Aerolab[1][3]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 91. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. Downey, Julia: 2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 38. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  3. 1 2 3 Aerolab SRL (n.d.). "LoCamp Data Sheet". Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  4. Aerolab SRL (n.d.). "HiCamp Data Sheet". Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  5. Aerolab SRL (n.d.). "BiCamp Data Sheet". Retrieved 17 September 2012.

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