Druine Turbi

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D.5 Turbi
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Druine Turbi at the Shuttleworth Collection
RoleRecreational aircraft
Manufacturer Falconar Avia
Designer Roger Druine
First flightc. 1953

The Druine D.5 Turbi was a light aircraft designed in France in the 1950s for home building. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage. The pilot and a single passenger sat in tandem, open cockpits. Essentially a scaled-up version of the Druine Turbulent design, the Turbi shared that aircraft's wooden construction. Again, like its predecessor, it was intended to be able to be powered by a variety of air-cooled engines.

Contents

The aircraft was marketed as plans and as a kit by Falconar Avia of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Plans are now supplied by Manna Aviation of Australia. [1] [2]

Design

The Turbi is built using all-wood construction. The wing uses a two-spar design. It uses slotted ailerons. [3]

Specifications (Druine D.5 Turbi)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1961–62, [4] Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59 [5]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. Vandermeullen, Richard: 2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 52. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  2. "Manna Aviation - Druine D5 Turbi Plans Blueprints". mannaaviation.com.
  3. Experimenter. October 1957.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Taylor 1961, p. 50
  5. Bridgman, Leonard, ed. (1957). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59. London: Jane's All the World's Aircraft Publishing Co. Ltd. pp. 151–152.