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ADI Sportster
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The ADI Sportster is a two-seat gyroplane that has been marketed in plans form for home-building since 1974. It was the first homebuilt gyrocopter design to be able to carry a passenger.
Specifications (ADI Sportster)
General characteristics
- Crew: one pilot
- Capacity: 1 passenger
- Length: 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m)
- Main rotor diameter: 28 ft 0 in (8.54 m)
- Height: 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
- Main rotor area: 616 ft² (57 m²)
- Empty: 650 lb (295 kg)
- Loaded: 1,100 lb (500 kg)
- Maximum takeoff: lb ( kg)
- Powerplant: 1x Lycoming O-320, 150 hp (112 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 90 mph (144 km/h)
- Range: 150 miles (240 km)
- Service ceiling: 12,000 ft (3,658 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (305 m/min)
- Wing loading: 1.8 lb/ft² (9 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.14 hp/lb (220 W/kg)
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