Jodel DR1050 Excellence
{{Short description|French homebuilt aircraft}}
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| name=DR1050 Excellence | image=Schaffen Jodel DR1050.JPG | caption=Jodel DR1050 }}{{Infobox Aircraft Type | type=Amateur-built aircraft | national origin=France | manufacturer=Jodel | designer=Jodel and Pierre Robin | first flight= | introduced= | retired= | status=Plans available (2012) | primary user= | more users= | produced= | number built=618 factory built{{cite web|last=Gebhardt|first= Lutz|title=A list of the Jodel DR.100 series aircraft|work= Gebhardt Aviation Pages|url=http://avions-jodel.de/Privat/Jodel/jodel_dr100_series_list.html |date= November 2000|accessdate=28 February 2019}} | developed from= Robin DR100 | variants with their own articles=Robin DR.200 }} |
The Jodel DR1050 Excellence and Ambassadeur are part of a family of French built aircraft, designed by Jean Délémontez (the principal designer of Jodel aircraft) in collaboration with Pierre Robin, as a development of the Jodel D.10 project.{{cite web|last=Teijgeler|first=Hans|title=The Jodel DR.100 series|url=http://www.jodel-passion.org/index.php?p=dr100&themodels|accessdate=28 February 2019}} The aircraft was built from 1958 to 1967 both by Centre-Est Aeronautique (CEA) (see Robin Aircraft) and by Société Aéronautique Normande (SAN)Jackson 1974, pp. 373-4 but since the demise of the latter in 1968 has only been supplied as plans.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011–12, page 95. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 99. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}
Design and development
The original aircraft was designated the DR.100 and features a cantilever low-wing, a three-seat enclosed cockpit, fixed, tailwheel conventional landing gear with a single engine in tractor configuration. This was developed ultimately to the DR1050M1 Sicile Record with swept fin and many other refinements such as wheel pants and improved canopy. Versions were manufactured by both SAN and CEA and variously named Ambassadeur, Excellence, Sicile, and Sicile Record. At least 618 of the family were constructed, 286 by SAN and 332 by CEA, between 1958 and 1965. Tricycle landing gear is optional on home-built aircraft.
This design was further developed by CEA as the DR200/220/250 series and subsequently as the Robin DR400 series.
The aircraft is made from wood, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its {{convert|8.72|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} span wing employs a NACA 23012 airfoil and has an area of {{convert|13.60|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}. The standard engine used is the {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Continental O-200 four-stroke powerplant.
Variants
:Original version with {{convert|90|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Continental C90 engine.Taylor 1961, p. 45
;DR.105
:First production version with {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Continental O-200-A engine.
;DR.1050
:Improved version with Continental O-200-A engine or with {{convert|105|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Potez 4E engine (as DR.1051).Taylor 1965, p. 35.
;DR.1050M
:Modified version of DR.1050, with swept fin, one piece all-moving tailplane and available with Continental O-200-A or Potez 4E engines (as DR.1051M).Taylor 1965, p. 54.
;DR.1050M1
:Final version of DR.1050, with one piece all-moving tailplane and available with Continental O-200-A or Potez 4E engines (as DR.1051M1).
Specifications (DR1050)
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References
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- {{cite book|last=Donald|first=David|title=The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft|year=1997|publisher=Blitz Editions|location= Leicester, UK|isbn=1-85605-375-X}}
- {{cite book|last=Taylor|first= John W. R.|authorlink=John W. R. Taylor|title=Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961–62|year=1961|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company|location= London}}
- {{cite book|last=Taylor|first= John W. R.|title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1965–66|location=London|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company|year=1965}}
- {{cite book|last=Taylor|first=John W. R.|title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1966–67|location= London|publisher= Sampson Low, Marston & Company|year= 1966}}
- {{cite book|last=Jackson|first= A.J.|title=British Civil Aircraft since 1919 (Volume 3)|location= London|publisher=Putnam|year= 1974|ISBN=0-85177-818-6}}
External links
{{commons category|Jodel DR-1050}}
- {{Official website|http://www.avionsjodel.com/}}
- [http://www.flugzeug-bild.de/name/einzelbild/number/14430/kategorie/flugplaetze~deutschland~hahnweide-edst.html Photo of a DR1050]
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