It has classic looks, 4 seats, plenty of interior room and
STOL-type behavior -- and it just plain flies great. The Avipro
Aircraft Bearhawk is getting serious ganders wherever it taxis
by... especially from those who have become acquainted with the
specs and performance of this surprisingly agile kit-built
aircraft. But, most of all, it's just a solidly good-looking
conventionally geared aircraft with GREAT manners.
With a "real world" useful load/CG envelope of 1100-1300 pounds,
and cruise speeds in the vicinity of 150 mph (or a little more with
the bigger engines), the kit-built Bearhawk has over 90 completed
aircraft to its resume, thanks mostly to a QB (Quick Build) kit
that the manufacturer claims takes as much as 2000-3000 hours worth
of work out of the process.
The Bearhawk was designed by engineer Bob Barrows, with kits
produced just south of the border in Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico.
Workmanship and quality of componentry get high m,arks form
builders and the fellow repping this airplane all over North
America, a fellow refugee from Air Progress, Budd Davisson, is
particularly proud of the quality of welding that comes in the
kit.
The Bearhawk boasts a Vne of 175 mph, cruise speeds of 135-150+
mph (on 150-260 HP), landing speeds of 40 mph, and 200-500 foot
takeoff rolls. Rates of climb vary from 1500-1700 fpm, with at
least 650 nm range (as much as 900 if you slow down to 50% power).
Empty weight is 1150-1350 pounds, while the gross weight is solid
2500 pounds (which is boosted to 2700 for floatplanes). The
Bearhawk has a 42 inch cabin width, a cabin length of 9 feet, 8
inches (from t he firewall all the way back to the very rear of the
baggage area), a wing span of 33 feet, and a 12 inch wide CG
envelope.
Budd says that the Bearhawk QB kit (FAA Approved under the 51%
Rule), has a build time of 850-1200 hours, as reported by actual
builders. The wings are all metal (with 90% of the riveting having
been done at the factory) and the fuselage frame comes pre-welded,
painted and ready for cover.
Let's Check Out The Bearhawk With
Aero-TV!!!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV
site (which will be upgraded aggressively
over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a video on
another web page is but one of the hundreds of amazing little
features that we've worked hard on, for many months now, to
implement in different phases of the initial release of
Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy unaltered
Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we have
extensive plans for future functionality, but this feature
allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or Feature
program to embed it on a different web site, though we must
note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those sites
or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper mission of
the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Shows You How To Build A Glasair Sportsman
2+2 in RECORD TIME, Files A SpaceX Update With Elon Musk, Gets
A Sobering Briefing From P.A.S.S., Flies The Piper Matrix, Checks
Out More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC 2007, Offers Thielert Diesel Talk
From "The Man", Spills Some Juicy Cirrus G3 Details, Shoots A
Clarity Aloft Headset Profile, Shows You What "Flying The
Vestimumax" Is All About, Scores A BUNCH of LSA reports, and
SO MUCH MORE!!!!! Do NOT miss them!
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