Italian homebuilt aircraft
TheAerolab LoCamp is an Italianamateur-built aircraft, designed and originally produced byAerolab SRL ofGallarate. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction, although the company plans to alsocertify the aircraft toJAR-VLA as well as produce alight-sport aircraft category version.[1][2][3]
The LoCamp design is now produced by one of Aerolab's original dealers,Golden Age Aeroworks, LLC ofRichland Center, Wisconsin,United States.[4]
Design and development
[edit]The LoCamp is intended to resemble a 1930s style light aircraft. It features a cantileverlow-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit withpolycarbonate windscreens, fixedconventional landing gear and a single engine intractor configuration.[1][2][5]
The aircraftfuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with the wing built from wood or optionallyaluminium sheet and its flying surfaces covered indopedaircraft fabric. Its 9.10 m (29.9 ft) span wing employs aNACA 4416airfoil, has an area of 13.5 m2 (145 sq ft) and mountsflaps. The standard engine available is the 110 hp (82 kW)Rotec R2800four-strokeradial engine, although the 65 hp (48 kW)Walter Mikron MIIIC was under evaluation by the manufacturer.[1][2][5]
In 2015 the manufacturer was considering producing a fully assembledspecial light-sport aircraft version.[2]
- LoCamp
- Low wing monoplane model[1]
- HiCamp
- Parasol wing model, that uses the same fuselage as the LoCamp model[1][6]
- BiCamp
- Biplane model, that uses the same fuselage as the LoCamp model[1][7]
Specifications (LoCamp)
[edit]Data from Bayerl and Aerolab[1][5]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one passenger
- Length: 6.71 m (22 ft 0 in)[8]
- Wingspan: 9.10 m (29 ft 10 in)
- Height: 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) (propeller turning)[8]
- Wing area: 13.50 m2 (145.3 sq ft)
- Airfoil:NACA 4416
- Empty weight: 385 kg (849 lb)
- Gross weight: 599 kg (1,321 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 120 litres (26 imp gal; 32 US gal)
- Powerplant: 1 ×Rotec R2800 seven cylinder, air-cooled,four strokeradial engine, 82 kW (110 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed wooden, 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) diameter
Performance
- Maximum speed: 195 km/h (121 mph, 105 kn)
- Cruise speed: 171 km/h (106 mph, 92 kn)
- Stall speed: 67 km/h (42 mph, 36 kn) with full flaps
- Never exceed speed: 213 km/h (132 mph, 115 kn)
- Range: 732 km (455 mi, 395 nmi)
- g limits: +4.0/-2.0
- Rate of climb: 4 m/s (790 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 44.4 kg/m2 (9.1 lb/sq ft)
- ^abcdefgBayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al:World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 91. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
- ^abcdTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al:World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 92. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.ISSN 1368-485X
- ^Downey, Julia:2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 38. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
- ^Golden Age Aeroworks LLC (2016)."About Golden Age Aeroworks LLC".goldenageaeroworks.com. Archived fromthe original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved28 March 2017.
- ^abcAerolab SRL."LoCamp Data Sheet". Archived fromthe original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved17 September 2012.
- ^Aerolab SRL."HiCamp Data Sheet". Archived fromthe original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved17 September 2012.
- ^Aerolab SRL."BiCamp Data Sheet". Archived fromthe original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved17 September 2012.
- ^abJackson 2007, p. 356.
- Jackson, Paul, ed. (2007).Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2007–2008. Coulsdon, Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group.ISBN 978-0-7106-2792-6.
