Periquito | |
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Periquito II in the TAM Museum | |
Role | Sailplane |
National origin | Brazil |
Manufacturer | IPD (Instituto de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento) |
Designer | Guido Pessotti |
First flight | 1957 |
Introduction | 1959 |
Number built | 9 |
The IPD Periquito (Brazilian name for the parakeet bird), was a single-seat sailplane of high-wing construction designed in 1956 by Guido Pessotti in Brazil. [1] [2]
It had a wooden construction, with a plywood and canvas covering. Little conventional train, with fixed center skate and fixed drumstick, half-embedded. There was also a fixed skate on the tail.
Data from Taylor 1965, p. 361
General characteristics
Performance
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