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Warwick W 3 Bantam

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First flight
  
June 1966

Designer
  
Bill Warwick

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

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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

Operational history

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

Specifications (W-3 Bantam)

Data from Plane and Pilot

General characteristics

  • Length: 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
  • Wingspan: 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m)
  • Empty weight: 535 lb (243 kg)
  • Gross weight: 790 lb (358 kg)
  • Fuel capacity: 11.5 U.S. gallons (44 L; 9.6 imp gal)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-145B Horizontally Opposed Piston

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 122 kn; 225 km/h (140 mph)
  • Cruise speed: 100 kn; 185 km/h (115 mph)
  • Stall speed: 45 kn; 84 km/h (52 mph)
  • Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (5.1 m/s)

    • References

    Warwick W-3 Bantam Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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