Bagalini Colombo

Colombo
Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin United States
Designer Marino Bagalini
Status Plans available (1998)
Unit cost
US$220.00 (plans only, 1998)

The Bagalini Colombo (English: Columbus) is an Italian homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Marino Bagalini. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.[1]

Design and development

The Colombo features a strut-braced parasol wing, a two-seats in side-by-side configuration open cockpit with a windshield, fixed conventional landing gear, or optional tricycle landing gear, and a single engine in tractor configuration.[1]

The aircraft is made from wood and metal, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 10.5 m (34.4 ft) span wing employs an RSG 35 airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to an RSG 36 airfoil at the wing tip. The wing mounts Junkers ailerons and has a wing area of 16.723 m2 (180.00 sq ft). The standard engine used is the 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447 two-stroke powerplant.[1][2]

The Colombo has an empty weight of 150 kg (330 lb) and a gross weight of 320 kg (710 lb), giving a useful load of 170 kg (370 lb). With full fuel of 23 litres (5.1 imp gal; 6.1 US gal) the payload is 151 kg (333 lb).[1]

The manufacturer estimates construction time from the supplied kit to be 700 hours.[1]

Specifications (Colombo)

Data from AeroCrafter and The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage[1][2]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 126. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1
  2. 1 2 Lednicer, David (2010). "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". Retrieved 12 December 2013.

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