Sanstroem Friendship 3

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Friendship F3
Friendship F3.JPG
A first production Friendship F3
General information
Type Ultralight aircraft
National origin France
Manufacturer Friendship Legend (R,S & Associes SAS Erik Sanstroem) [1]
StatusProduction completed
Number builtone
History
Introduction date2012
First flightJuly 2012

The Friendship 3 is a French ultralight aircraft with tandem seats, engineered in France and Switzerland, and assembled in Czech Republic by Ivanov Aircraft for the manufacturer, R,S & Associes SAS Erik Sanstroem of Versailles, Yvelines. Inspired by 1950s and 1960s light aircraft and motorgliders, the Friendship 3 is a two-place tandem-seat ultralight aircraft with dual controls, so that the rear seated passenger can also fly. [1]

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The company seems to have been founded 2012 and gone out of business in 2014. [2]

Design and development

The Friendship 3 was designed for both soaring and cross-country powered flying, with a glide ratio of 24:1. The Friendship F3A has a composite fuselage; and wood and fabric for the wings with the main spars in carbon fiber. The aircraft was registered in France in late 2012. [1] [3]

Variants

Friendship 3
F3A: Available with 80 hp Rotax 912 engine.
F3B: Available with 100 hp Rotax 912 engine.

Specifications (Friendship F3A)

Data from Tacke [1]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 75. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN   1368-485X
  2. ↑ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". archive.org.{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ↑ Tisserant, Philippe (December 2012). "Friendship 3 Retour du RF3 en ULM biplace". Vol Moteur (322): 22–27. ISSN   0299-8203 . Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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