Warwick W-3 Bantam

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W-3 Bantam
Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin United States
Designer Bill Warwick
First flightJune 1966
Introduction1966
Unit cost
$1200 in 1971

The W-3 Bantam is a simple single place, homebuilt aircraft design from Bill Warwick of Torrance, California. [1]

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Design

The W-3 is a single place tricycle gear, low wing aircraft with an open cockpit or bubble canopy. Construction is all metal with a welded-steel-tube forward fuselage with attachment points for the wing spars and engine mount. The fuselage uses non-compound curves and features a square vertical stabilizer [2]

Operational history

The prototype was featured on the cover of the May 1972 issue of Popular Mechanics. [3]

Specifications (W-3 Bantam)

Data from Plane and Pilot

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. Air Trails: 77. Winter 1971.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Plane and Pilot W-3 Bantam" . Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  3. Popular Mechanics. May 1972.Missing or empty |title= (help)