Ace Scooter

The Ace Scooter is an American aircraft that was designed for homebuilt construction.

Not to be confused with Ace (Scooter album).
Scooter
Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company

Design and development

The Ace Scooter is a single place, strut-braced, high wing aircraft with conventional landing gear. The tractor engine is mounted above the wing. The open cockpit has a short rounded nose. The fuselage is of wood construction with aircraft fabric covering.[1]

Specifications (Scooter)

Data from Air Trails

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Length: 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
  • Wingspan: 28 ft (8.5 m)
  • Height: 7 ft (2.1 m)
  • Wing area: 115 sq ft (10.7 m2)
  • Aspect ratio: 6.75
  • Empty weight: 390 lb (177 kg)
  • Gross weight: 625 lb (283 kg)
  • Fuel capacity: 7 U.S. gallons (26 L; 5.8 imp gal)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Volkswagen air-cooled engine Horizontally opposed piston, 65 hp (48 kW)
  • Propellers: 2-bladed wooden

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 76 kn (88 mph, 142 km/h)
  • Cruise speed: 65 kn (75 mph, 121 km/h)
  • Stall speed: 30 kn (34 mph, 55 km/h)
  • Service ceiling: 12,000 ft (3,700 m)
  • Rate of climb: 600 ft/min (3.0 m/s)

Related development

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gollark: It's less complex for everyone interacting with it, since they can just... use SQLite, which has bindings for everything, instead of "zimlib". And by "efficiency" do you mean "space efficiency" or "lookup efficiency"? Because, as I said, SQLite would probably only add a few bytes per directory entry row, which is not a significant increase.
gollark: SQLite's overhead is pretty low, and the majority of the filesize is from the binary blobs which would remain the same in each.
gollark: It's less complex for them as the code is already there and written with a nice API, and "less efficient" how? Slightly more space on headers?
gollark: You could easily store the directory entry bits as an SQLite table.

References
  1. "none". Air Trails: 74. Summer 1971.
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