Photograph:
First Boredom Fighter in Australia 19-8410 (c/n RE1) at its base at Moruya, NSW in January 2017 (David C Eyre)
Country of origin:
United States of America
Description:
Single-seat light sport aircraft
Power Plant:
One 48 kw (65 hp) Continental A-65 four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 6.09 m (20 ft)
- Length: 4.81 m (15 ft 8 in)
- Max speed: 193 km/h (120 mph)
- Cruising speed: 177 km/h (110 mph)
- Stalling speed: 68 km/h (42 mph)
- Rate of climb: 366 m/min (1,200 ft/min)
- Service ceiling: 4,867 m (16,000 ft)
- Range: 815 km (506 miles)
- Empty weight: 214 kg (473 lb)
- Loaded weight: 349 kg (770 lb)
History:
The Boredom Fighter was designed by Donald Wolf as a single-seat ultralight aircraft to look like a classic aircraft of the 1920s and was marketed by Sirius Aviation in the United States. It was an open cockpit biplane that had been built in small numbers around the world, most being finished in a wide variety of World War I and 1920s colour schemes. It was constructed of wood, the engine usually installed being a Continental A-65, but other variants of the Continental, as well as Rotax and Subaru conversions, have been installed.
A couple is known to be under construction in Australia and one, described as a Wolf Boredom Fighter, became 19-8410 to its owner/builder in the Latrobe Valley, VIC, this aircraft being fitted with a Continental A-65 engine. In 2016 it was sold with 10 hours total time to a new owner and has been subsequently based at Moruya, NSW.