Starfire Firebolt. Thoseto technical specifications. A photo.

Starfire Firebolt - American single-engined sports biplane, designed and manufactured by «Starfire Aviation» with 1996 years.

Starfire Firebolt photo

Development of a single-engine biplane sports conducted by American aircraft engineers to 1993 years, while, as a basis for initial design served as a model of another American sport biplane - Steen Skybolt. To minimize development time, American aircraft manufacturers practically did not change the design of sports aircraft, but partially optimized its flight performance, thereby making the aircraft more acceptable in terms of its production and subsequent implementation.

The American aircraft construction company "Starfire Aviation", in an attempt to minimize the cost of the aircraft, went on the way of issuing only drawings and manuals on the assembly of the aircraft, which in its turn became one of the main reasons for the failure of this project, which requires about 3000 hours of free time, respective components and specialized tool to create a plane, which effectively meant that future owners work required to create a biplane about one year (subject daily 8-hours s work). However, as is well known and that several aircraft models have been implemented directly in the assembled state, however, they turned out to be a very high cost, which is why implementation required several years.

Photo Starfire Firebolt

The configuration of the aircraft biplane provided Starfire Firebolt higher rigidity of the design, which in turn enables it to different kinds of aerobatic stunts, and, quite safely. aircraft compact design also led to a high maneuverability and good handling.

On board the aircraft Starfire Firebolt can accommodate only two people - a pilot and one passenger, and, the aircraft has a very narrow scope of its application, in particular, the aircraft is not suitable for transportation of goods, and provides service only in private use.

The power plant of the aircraft model Starfire Firebolt is located in the nose of the aircraft, and is a six-cylinder piston aircraft engine Lycoming IO-540 300 power in HP Thanks to a powerful propulsion system, the aircraft can accelerate up to speed in 378 km \ h .. and overcome the distance to 805 kilometers.

Aircraft Starfire Firebolt

According to 2013 years, in the world there are 9 aircrafts of this model, however, due to the fact that self-assembly manuals were sold in large numbers, it is possible that the actual number of aircraft Starfire Firebolt appreciably greater.