Stewart Headwind
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| name=Stewart Headwind | image= | caption= }}{{Infobox aircraft type | type=Homebuilt aircraft | national origin=United States | manufacturer=Stewart Aircraft Corporation | designer=Don Stewart | first flight=1962 | introduced=1962 | retired= | status= | primary user= | more users= | produced= | number built= | program cost= | unit cost=approximately $990 to build in 1971{{cite journal|journal=Air Trails|date=Winter 1971|title=The true cost of building your own plane|author=Leo J. Kohn|page=63}} ({{Inflation|US|990|1971|fmt=eq}}){{Inflation/fn|US}} | developed from= | variants with their own articles= }} |
The Stewart Headwind JD1HW1.7 and SAC-1VW is a single-seat high-wing tube-and-fabric construction homebuilt aircraft.{{cite journal|journal=Air Trails|date=Winter 1971|page=76}}
Design and development
The first Headwind was flown on March 28, 1962. It was one of the first aircraft to fly in the United States using a VW engine. The prototype flew with a Huggins VW conversion.{{cite journal|journal=Air Progress Sport Aircraft|date=Winter 1969|page=70}} To use a standard propeller, a patented PRSU (propeller speed reducing unit) was developed to keep the engine RPM high and propeller RPM at its optimum speed.{{cite web|author=www.jrwebworks.net |url=http://www.stewartaircraft.com/main.html |title=Stewart Aircraft Michigan |publisher=Stewartaircraft.com |date=1962-03-28 |accessdate=2010-05-31}}
The design was inspired by the Demoiselle by Alberto Santos-Dumont.{{cite web|url=http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepPeanutHeadwind.html |title=Stewart Headwind |publisher=Airbum.com |date= |accessdate=2010-05-31}} The fuselage is triangular sections of welded tube steel covered in fabric.
Variants
A Volkswagen air-cooled engine was the only engine specified for this model, however many examples exist with alternate engine installations.
Specifications Stewart Headwind
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See also
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References
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- Sport Aviation Feb 1972, pp 22. Stewart Headwind
- Sport Aviation June 1976, pp 70. On To Oshkosh! Headwind Caravan
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External links
- https://sites.google.com/site/flywithstewart/
- http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepPeanutHeadwind.html
- http://www.pilotfriend.com/experimental/acft3/66.htm