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Rutan QuickieThe Quickie is a light homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, Tom Jewett, and Gene Sheehan and marketed by the Quickie Aircraft Corporation founded by the latter two men. It was one of the dozens of unconventional designs penned by Rutan for the general aviation market. The original Quickie was the Model 54 in Rutan's design series. Appearing at first glance to be a biplane or canard design, the Quickie is in fact called a tandem-wing aircraft, meaning that both the front and rear wings are full airfoils. The front wing is a canard, and is fitted with elevators, but provides about 60% of the lift. Highly efficient, and of composite construction, the Quickie is a typically radical Rutan aircraft. There are three main versions of Rutan's design. The Quickie has one seat and is powered by a 20 horsepower (15 kW) engine. The Quickie Q2 has a 64 horsepower (48 kW) Volkswagen engine and seats two side by side, while the Q200 (also seating two) is faster than the Q2 with a 105 horsepower (78 kW) Continental O-200 engine and uses a different airfoil for the canard. Both the Q2 and the Q200 can be constructed as Tri-Qs, featuring tricycle landing gear rather than conventional gear. External links Related content Related development: Comparable aircraft: Designation sequence: 54
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