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Cook Challenger

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Wingspan
  
8.36 m

Manufacturer
  
Cook Aircraft Corporation

First flight
  
May 1969

The Cook JC-1 Challenger was a 1960s American cabin monoplane built by the Cook Aircraft Corporation.

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Development

John Cook founded the Cook Aircraft Corporation in 1968 at Torrance, California to build and market his JC-1 Challenger cabin monoplane design.

The Challenger was a low-winged cantilever four-seat monoplane of all-metal construction. It was powered by a single 150 horsepower (110 kW) Lycoming O-320 piston engine and had a fixed nosewheel undercarriage. Two prototypes were built and the first aircraft flew in May 1969. A third prototype was built in 1971 but crashed in 1972 killing Cook. A fourth modified prototype was built by the company but was never certified and the company stop all design and development in the mid 1970s.

Specifications

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1971–72

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Capacity: 3 passengers
  • Length: 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
  • Wingspan: 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
  • Height: 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
  • Wing area: 131.2 sq ft (12.19 m2)
  • Aspect ratio: 5.7:1
  • Airfoil: NACA 23015
  • Empty weight: 1,180 lb (535 kg)
  • Max takeoff weight: 2,150 lb (975 kg)
  • Fuel capacity: 40 US gal (150 l; 33 imp gal)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-320-E2A air-cooled horizontally opposed piston engine, 150 hp (110 kW)
  • Propellers: 2-bladed Sensenich metal fixed pitcj, 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) diameter

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 150 mph (241 km/h; 130 kn)
  • Cruise speed: 125 mph (201 km/h; 109 kn) at 7,000 ft (2,135 m) (econ cruise)
  • Stall speed: 54 mph (87 km/h; 47 kn) flaps down
  • Never exceed speed: 185 mph (298 km/h; 161 kn)
  • Range: 691 mi (600 nmi; 1,112 km)
  • Service ceiling: 15,000 ft (4,600 m)
  • Rate of climb: 700 ft/min (3.6 m/s)
  • Take-off run to 50 ft (15 m): 1,020 ft (310 m)
  • Landing run from 50 ft (15 m): 1,020 ft (310 m)

    • References

    Cook Challenger Wikipedia
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