Photograph:
First Flying Legend Tucano kit at Ausfly at Narromine, NSW in September 2015 (David C Eyre)
Country of origin:
Italy
Description:
Two-seat in tandem light sport aircraft
Power Plant:
One 86 kw (115 hp) Rotax 914 turbocharged four-cylinder horizontally-opposed liquid-and-air-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in)
- Length: 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
- Height: 2.43 m (8 ft)
- Wing area: 10 m² (107 sq ft)
- Never exceed speed: 300 km/h (186 mph)
- Cruising speed at 75% power: 230 km/h (143 mph)
- Stalling speed clean: 75 km/h (47 mph)
- Take-off run: 150 m (492 ft)
- Landing run: 190 m (623 ft)
- Rate of climb: 338 m/min (1,110 ft/min)
- Range: 1,000 km (621 miles)
- Fuel capacity: 84 litres (18 Imp gals)
- G limits: +4.4/-2.2
- Wing loading: 59.5 kg/m² (12.2 lb/sq ft)
- Empty weight: 371 kg (816 lb)
- Loaded weight: 600 kg (1,323 lb)
History:
The Flying Legend Tucano was a 70 per cent scale replica of the Embraer Tucano two-seat military trainer produced in Italy for the sport aircraft market. By mid 2015 more than 12 kits had been completed around the world and production of kits has continued.
The full-size Tucano was a turboprop-powered aircraft designed and built by Embraer in Brazil as the EMB-312 and was supplied to a number of air forces around the world. It was produced in large numbers, the type operating in the advanced trainer role with the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Production of the Tucano kit took place at Caltagirone in south-east Sicily. It has been in production since 2011 and, known as the T-27, was first shown to the sports aircraft world in Germany at Aero Friedrichshafen.
The first kit arrived in Australia in early 2015 and construction commenced at Rylstone, NSW, this aircraft being fitted with a Rotax 914 turbocharged engine.
The Flying Legend aircraft was a cantilever low-wing aircraft seating two in tandem powered by the Rotax 912 series of engines driving a three-blade composite propeller and was of all-metal construction using 2024-T3 and 6061-T6 aluminium sheet.
In addition to building the Tucano scale replica kit, the manufacturer also produced a scale replica of the Hawker Hurricane fighter of World War II.
Variants of the Tucano kit have included the basic ‘R’ fitted with a 75 kw (100 hp) Rotax 912ULS engine, a similar model with the Rotax 914 turbocharged engine, and a model with a Rotax 912 engine with a compressor which provided 104 kw (140 hp).
In July 2014 Brazilian pilot, Bruce Ryan Young, flew his aircraft to the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) event at Oshkosh in Wisconsin, USA from Brazil via Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Netherland Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and the Bahamas, covering 10,558 km (6,561 miles) at an average ground speed of 222 km/h (138 mph).