Scott Ol' Ironsides

Ol' Ironsides
Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin United States
Designer Ron Scott
First flight 22 November 1969
Unit cost
$1530 in 1969

The Scott Ol' Ironsides is an early homebuilt aircraft using wood construction with stressed fiberglass panel construction.[1]


Design

Ol' Ironsides is a strut-braced high-wing aircraft with conventional landing gear arrangement. The wooden fuselage is made of Sitka Spruce. Fiberglass composite skins were formed in 4 x 8 sheets using two layers of cloth with resin over a waxed Masonite table. The landing gear legs, fuel tank, wink tips, wheel pants, and cowling were also formed out of fibre-glass. Scott integrated elements of the Bowers Fly Baby and Champion J-1 Jupiter construction with the Wittman Tailwind airfoil and general layout into the design.[2]

Operational history

Construction of the aircraft was started in the mid-1960s starting with a model rather than a drawing. Ol' Ironsides first flew on 22 November 1969 with a Continental C-85 engine sourced from a Cessna 140. In 1985 the prototype aircraft was restored and re-engined with an Continental O-200 and Sterba wooden propeller.[3]

Specifications (Ol' Ironsides)

Data from Sport Aviation

General characteristics

Performance

Avionics
Terra Radio, Flybuddy Loran

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

  1. Air Trails: 14. Winter 1971. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Why EAA? Ask "Ol' Ironsides"". Sport Aviation: 4. November 1971.
  3. Jack Cox (May 1992). "Ol' Ironsides revisited". Sport Aviation.
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