Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug
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| name=SA-5 Flut-R-Bug | image=Stits SA6B Flutrbug LX-PUR Lux Findel 27.07.65 edited-3.jpg | caption=SA-6B Flut-R-Bug at Luxembourg Airport in 1965 }}{{Infobox aircraft type | type=Homebuilt aircraft | national origin=United States | manufacturer=Stits Aircraft Company | designer=Ray Stits | first flight=1956 | introduced= | retired= | status= | primary user= | more users= | produced= | number built=27 full kits sold, 1200 set of plans sold{{cite book|title=Kitplane Construction|author=Ronald J. Wanttaja|page=5}} | program cost= | unit cost=US$1250 in 1956 | developed from= | variants with their own articles= }} |
The Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug is a homebuilt aircraft designed by Ray Stits.
Design and development
The Flut-R-Bug can be built as a single place or tandem seat aircraft. It was an early complete-kit aircraft, sold with a pre-welded fuselage. Stits planned to deliver 100 kits to the German market for homebuilding.{{cite journal|magazine=Flying Magazine|date=July 1956|title=Check Pilot Report on the Flut-R-Bug}} Examples have been completed in the United States and in Europe.
The SA-5 is a mid-wing, tricycle landing gear design with folding wings. The aircraft was intended to be towed by a vehicle by the (lowered) tail on its main gear with wings folded along its sides. The cockpit can be open, or covered with a bubble canopy. The fuselage is constructed from welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering. The wings use spruce wooden spars with fabric covering.{{cite journal|title=Flut-R-Bug|magazine=Sport Aviation|date=January 1959|page=25}}
Variants
;SA-5A
:Single place variant
;SA-6A
:Two seat tandem variant with a {{convert|1015|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} gross weight{{cite journal|magazine=Flying Magazine|date=November 1960|title=EAA Fly-In|page=36}}
;SA-6B
:Two seat variant with wider span wings and larger tail surface{{cite journal|magazine=Flying Magazine|date=March 1957|title=Report on the Stits Homebuilt|author=Dean McCarty}}
Specifications (Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug)
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References
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