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The Garrison Melmoth was an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and built by Peter Garrison. The project was commenced in 1968 and it first flew on 6 September 1973. The aircraft was designed and built from scratch, drawing on Garrison's previous experience working on the Practavia Sprite. The Melmoth was destroyed on the ground in 1982, when another aircraft hit it.〔Plane and Pilot: ''1978 Aircraft Directory'', page 142. Werner & Werner Corp, Santa Monica CA, 1977. ISBN 0-918312-00-0〕 ==Design and development== The aircraft was designed as a research project that would comply with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) experimental-amateur-built rules. It featured a cantilever low wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. Garrison spent over 10,000 hours building the aircraft.〔 Garrison explains how the aircraft's name was chosen, "I christened it Melmoth, after the Byronic protagonist of the nineteenth-century novel ''Melmoth the Wanderer'', who sells his soul to the devil for, among other valuable considerations, the ability to travel about at will in space and time." ''Melmoth the Wanderer'' was written by Charles Maturin and published in 1820.〔 The aircraft was built from aluminium and incorporated exceptional fuel capacity for an amateur-built of its era, including two wingtip tanks and a main tank, with a total of of fuel carried, giving a range of . To make use of the long endurance an autopilot was fitted, for comfort the cockpit was in width. Its span rectangular wing with an aspect ratio of 6:1, employed an NACA 65A316 airfoil, mounted double-slotted flaps and adjustable-incidence ailerons. The engine was a Continental IO-360-A producing , driving a Hartzell constant speed propeller of diameter. Control was via center control sticks.〔〔 The Melmoth was registered with the US FAA in the ''Experimental-Amateur-built'' category. Over time the aircraft was modified to include IFR avionics, an automatic fuel tank selection and cycling system, airbrakes, a stabilator T-tail, a turbocharged engine and built-in oxygen.〔 A follow-on design, the Garrison Melmoth 2, was commenced in August 1981 and first flew on 1 November 2002. The Melmoth 2 bears the same registration, N2MU, that the original aircraft wore.〔〔 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「Garrison Melmoth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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