Q-talk 136 - Q1 Interest Making a Come Back?
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- Published: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 16:24
- Written by Doug Humble
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It's great to see the Quickie world is still going strong, I check the QBA site often to see what's going on.
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A bit of history about this aircraft, back in 2006 I got some plans for the Q1 and was getting ready to build when a friend told me about a guy that owned one, but had passed away back in 2000. I started doing some research and found the phone number for the son. I gave him a call and asked if I could have a look at it as I was interested in building one. Before I knew it, he said,if I'm so interested make him an offer, the following week I took it home for $5000 AUD. This aircraft was one of the first Rutan designs in Australia, it first flew in 1985 and has done over 300 hours on 3 different engines. From 2000 onwards it was gathering dust in a farm shed. After 24 years the paint was a bit faded, so the new paint job, prop and spinner are the only work wehave done on it. The rest was still in good condition.
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It is so much fun to fly. We fly off rough bush strip with no problems. Its weight is about 240kg TOW. It has a Rotax 503 with twin carbs. I can cruse at 110 kts at 5200 rpm or 130kts 6000 rpm and stalls at 50kts. It has two extra fuel tanks giving about 40L all up. It has a 45"diameter prop set at 28 degrees pitch. I have 30 hours flying on it now.
Craig Jones
Campbelltown, South Australia
Finishing the Q-200 I bought from Mike Brown is on my 10 year plan, but at only 29 years old, I've hopefully got that in me. In the meantime I've picked up a previously flying Q1 that I plan to get back up in the air.
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It came with a Nelson H-63-CP engine. It looks like there was talk of using this engine before, but I know very little about this engine. It looks like the rights to the Nelson engines were sold in 1996 to Sport Plane Products, Inc. - Charles Rhoades out of Naples, FL. I've tried calling the number listed, but it is no longer in service. Does anyone know anything about this engine?
Regards, Cody Austin
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Nathan Peck sent this photo of his Q1 originally built by is Dad. He has recently converted to a Rotax 503. We may see him and his machine at the Field of Dreams Fly-in this fall.
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