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Unsure of the
RV3 weight - but that's my thinking of the Vision with single
rotor.
Hi George,
The weight is easy. Gross is alleged to
be 1100 lbs, but that was before Van got realistic :-) My
empty weight with the 13B is about 850 lbs, so I can easily make the 1320
limit. Stall speed is supposed to be 51 mph, and the limit is 51.8 mph (45
kts). Believe it or not (choose carefully <g>) my stall speed is
exactly 51 mph :-)
The catch is speed. We have a 138 mph speed
limit, and the RV-3 will likely top that with anything that will get it off the
ground. There's a bit of fuzziness in the rules though, and I think it's
the speed at max continuous allowed power. I can imagine a statement
in my logbook now- "Max continuous rpm allowed is 4500. Higher
rpm operation must be limited to 3 hours or less."
:-)
Van's lists the RV-3 as using engines from 100-160 HP,
so a single would certainly fly it, and a turbo single would fly it
well.
BTW, these are just the sorts of rationalizations that
I'm using to order a Dynon D10A EFIS Monday, pending another test of my buddy's
unit this weekend.
Cheers,
Rusty
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