Freiberger Ron's 1

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Ron's 1
RoleTwo-seat homebuilt aerobatic monoplane
National originUnited States
DesignerRonald Darwin Freiberger
First flightNovember 1971

The Freiberger Ron's 1 is an American two-seat homebuilt aerobatic monoplane designed and built by Ronald D. Freiberger, it was highly modified aerobatic variant of the Spezio Tuholer.

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Design and development

Freiberger, a design engineer at General Motors and Rose-Hulman graduate flew Ron's 1 in November 1971, it was a braced low-wing monoplane with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered with Ceconite. [1] The two-spar wing had vee-bracing struts and was made of wood with a Ceconite covering. [1] Ron's 1 had a fixed tailwheel type landing gear with fairings over the main wheels, the pilot and passenger sat in tandem open cockpits. [1] Powered by a 160 hp (119 kW) Lycoming O-320-B1B flat-four air-cooled engine driving a two-bladed metal fixed pitch propeller, Freiberger enclosed the engine in a radial-style cowling to give the aircraft a look of the early 1930s racing aircraft. [1]

Specifications

Data fromJane's All the World's Aircraft 1973–74 [1]

General characteristics

Performance

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Taylor 1973, p. 329

Bibliography

  • Taylor, John W.R., ed. (1973). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973–74. London, United Kingdom: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN   0-354-00117-5.