Photograph:
ASSO Whisky IV 15635 in Italy (A Wadman – Airliners Net)
Country of origin:
Canada
Description:
Two-seat light touring and training monoplane
Power Plant:
One 60 kw (80 hp) Limbach 2000 four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 8.01 m (26 ft 3 in)
- Length: 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Height: 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Wing area: 11.19 m² (120.5 sq ft)
- Max speed: 294 km/h (183 mph)
- Max horizontal speed: 257 km/h (160 mph)
- Cruising speed at 75% power: 209 km/h (130 mph)
- Max manoeuvring speed: 185 km/h (115 mph)
- Max flap speed: 135 km/h (84 mph)
- Stalling speed flaps up: 69 km/h (43 mph)
- Stalling speed flaps down: 60 km/h (37 mph)
- Take-off run: 101 m (330 ft)
- Landing run: 149 m (490 ft)
- Rate of climb: 239 m/min (785 ft/min)
- Max ceiling: 3,048 m (10,000 ft)
- Range: 861 km (535 miles)
- Fuel capacity: 50 litres (11 Imp gals)
- Empty weight: 282 kg (622 lb)
- Loaded weight: 480 kg (1,058 lb)
History:
The ASSO Whisky IV was a two-seat in tandem, low-wing light sport monoplane designed by Guiseppe Vidor. Construction was of all-wood with wood and fabric covering. Undercarriage was fixed tailwheel configuration. It was marketed in plans-only form by S Littner in Quebec, Canada.
One has been constructed in New Zealand by Mr Bill Izard, and an example built in Australia from plans by Mr Warren Canning became VH-OHW (c/n 347) to its owner/builder at Kyneton, VIC in June 2013 fitted with an AeroVee 2.1 engine.
Mr Vidor also produced the Champion V, an aircraft of similar appearance of wood construction with a tricycle undercarriage fitted with a Jabiru 2200 engine, and the Junior VI, with a retractable undercarriage.