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Freiberger Ron's 1

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Top speed
  
225 km/h

Length
  
5.79 m

Wingspan
  
7.47 m

The Freiberger Ron's 1 is an American two-seat homebuilt aerobatic monoplane designed and built by Ronald D. Freiberger, it was highly-modified aerobatic variant of the Spezio Tuholer.

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Design and development

Freiberger, a design engineer at General Motors and Rose-Hulman graduate flew Ron's 1 in November 1971, it was a braced low-wing monoplane with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered with Ceconite. The two-spar wing had vee-bracing struts and was made of wood with a Ceconite covering. Ron's 1 had a fixed tailwheel type landing gear with fairings over the main wheels, the pilot and passenger sat in tandem open cockpits. Powered by a 160 hp (119 kW) Lycoming O-320-B1B flat-four air-cooled engine driving a two-bladed metal fixed pitch propeller, Freiberger enclosed the engine in a radial-style cowling to give the aircraft a look of the early 1930s racing aircraft.

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74

General characteristics

  • Crew: 2
  • Length: 19 ft 0 in (5.79 m)
  • Wingspan: 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
  • Height: 4 ft 0 in (1.22 m)
  • Empty weight: 1135 lb (514 kg)
  • Gross weight: 1800 lb (816 kg)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-320-B1B flat-four air-cooled engine, 160 hp ( kW)

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 140 mph (225 km/h)
  • Cruise speed: 110 mph (177 km/h)
  • Endurance: 3 hours  0 min
  • Service ceiling: 10000 ft (3050 m)
  • Rate of climb: 1300 ft/min ( m/s)

    • References

    Freiberger Ron's 1 Wikipedia
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