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Record setting CEA-308: 223 mph on 80 hp (photo: CEA308Record.wordpress.com)
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Here's an article by my friend Elliot Seguin, a project engineer and flight test engineer at Scaled Composites. It's on the Brazilian CEA-308 aircraft and the world records it set in December 2010 in the class for internal combustion powered landplane with a takeoff weight of 661 pounds or less. The article was originally written for the Scaled employee newsletter.
This good looking little airplane may be the most exciting thing to happen in record setting in the last few years. This one off homebuilt recently took the time to climb to 3000m as well as the 3km, 15km, and 100km speed records for its weight class. It was built by students of the Center for the study of Aeronautical Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, directed by Professor Paulo Iscold.
The CEA-308, Pilot Gúnar Armin, and Professor Paulo Iscold
The design phase started in 1999 as Paulo’s undergraduate project. The construction of the design started in 2000 and used wood and steel for the fuselage with white foam formed in between bulkheads and stringers which was carved to shape and covered with fiberglass. The wing is built-up wood ribs and a wood spar; like the fuselage the spaces between the wood parts were filled with white foam which was carved to shape and covered with fiberglass.
Early CEA-308 2 cycle engine installation - records were set with the Jabiru engine
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