Taiwan Dancer TD-3
{{Short description|Taiwanese amateur-built aircraft}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2022}}
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The Taiwan Dancer TD-3 is a Taiwanese amateur-built aircraft produced by Taiwan Dancer Technology Co. of Nangang Village, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City. Designed by Chin Lien Wei, the aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 122. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 129. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}
By May 2017 the company website had been taken down and the company may have ceased operations.{{cite web|url = http://tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net/index.html|title = Taiwan Dancer|accessdate = 26 May 2017|author=Taiwan Dancer Technology Co., Ltd. |work = tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net|date =}}
Design and development
The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with doors for access, fixed tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.{{cite web|url = http://tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net/en/products3.html|title = TD-3|accessdate = 22 October 2012|last = Taiwan Dancer Technology Co.|year = 2007}}
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing while the wing is made from aluminum sheet parts, with all surfaces covered in formed epoxy polymer. Its {{convert|8.62|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} span wing is supported by "V" struts, employs a NASA-HQ3.0 airfoil, has an area of {{convert|11.16|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} and mounts flaperons. The wings can be folded in 15 minutes for ground transportation or storage. The recommended power range is {{convert|65|to|110|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} and the standard engines used are the {{convert|97|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} geared Volkswagen air-cooled engine and the {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants.
The TD-3 was completed in 2007 and won first prize for an aircraft design, awarded by the Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs.{{cite web|url = http://tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net/en/company2.html|title = Company Profile|accessdate = 29 December 2014|last = Taiwan Dancer Technology Co., Ltd.|year = 2007|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141230024025/http://tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net/en/company2.html|archivedate = 30 December 2014}}
Specifications (TD-3)
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References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://tdaircraft.myweb.hinet.net/en/products3.html}}