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The Brutsche Freedom 40 was an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Neal H. Brutsche and produced by Brutsche Aircraft Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah. The aircraft was intended to be supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, with a partial kit available.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', pages 64 and 129. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The Freedom 40 featured a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with a door, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.〔 The aircraft was made from pop rivetted sheet aluminum. Its span wing had a wing area of and could be folded for ground transport or storage. The cabin width was . The acceptable power range was and the standard engine used was the Hirth 2702 two-stroke powerplant.〔 The Freedom 40 had a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of in the aircraft's wing tanks the payload for the pilot and baggage was .〔 To simplify construction, the design had no complex parts to make and no compound curves to form. In 1998 the plans sold for US$250.00. Completion cost for the airframe alone was estimated at US$3000.00 in 1998.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brutsche Freedom 40」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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