Blue Yonder EZ King Cobra

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EZ King Cobra
Role Kit plane
National origin Canada
Manufacturer Blue Yonder Aviation
DesignerWayne Winters
First flight1998
Introduction1998
Primary userPrivate owners
Number built1
Developed from Merlin
Variants EZ Harvard

The Blue Yonder EZ King Cobra is a Canadian designed and built, single-engined, single-seat aircraft provided as a completed aircraft or in kit form by Blue Yonder Aviation. The aircraft is approximately a 60% scale replica of the Second World War Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighter. [1]

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The aircraft can be constructed in Canada as a basic ultra-light, or amateur-built aircraft, but is not currently available as an advanced ultra-light. [2] [3]

Development

The EZ King Cobra was designed by Wayne Winters of Indus, Alberta and based on the earlier EZ Merlin. The project was started as a customer request for an ultralight category scale replica of a fighter and was later offered as a commercially available kit aircraft.

Winters created the EZ King Cobra by designing a new cantilever wing based on the Merlin wing, itself based on the Lazair wing design. The fuselage is constructed of welded 4130 steel tube and has a canopy and fin that resembles the original fighter design. The aircraft retained the Junker's ailerons of the original Merlin wing along with the Clark "Y" airfoil and construction featuring a leading edge "D" cell and foam ribs. The prototype is powered by a Rotax 582 two stroke engine of 64 hp (48 kW). [1] [4]

The prototype of the new design flew in 1998. In the basic ultralight version gross weight is limited to the category maximum of 1,200 lb (544 kg). [1]

The EZ King Cobra can accommodate a variety of powerplants: [5]

Operational history

Despite being widely demonstrated no further orders have been received for the type and the prototype remains the sole flying example. [2]

Specifications (Rotax 582)

Data from Blue Yonder website [1]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Winters, Wayne (n.d.). "EZ King Cobra". Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
  2. 1 2 Transport Canada (7 November 2016). "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register" . Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  3. Transport Canada (November 2008). "Listing of Models Eligible to be Registered as Advanced Ultra-Light Aeroplanes (AULA)" . Retrieved 2 March 2009.
  4. 1 2 Lednicer, David (October 2007). "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
  5. Winters, Wayne (n.d.). "EZ King Cobra Price Lists". Archived from the original on 17 March 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.