Quickie Aircraft

Quickie Aircraft
Industry	Homebuilt Aircraft
Founded	1978; 46 years ago in Mojave, California, United States
Founder	Gene Sheehan co-founder and designer; Tom Jewett co-founder and designer; ;
Defunct	1986
Fate	Bankrupt due to lawsuit
Key people	Burt Rutan, Designer; Garry LeGare, Designer; ;
Products	Quickie; Quickie Q2; Quickie Q200; Quickie Aircraft Corporation Free Enterprise; ;

The Quickie Aircraft Corporation was founded in Mojave, California, in 1978 to market the Quickie homebuilt aircraft (models Quickie, Quickie Q2, and Quickie Q200 aircraft). The original single-seater Quickie was designed by Burt Rutan and company founders Gene Sheehan and Tom Jewett. The two-seater Q2 and Q200 were designed by Canadian Garry LeGare, Jewett and Sheehan.^[1] While the Q2 and Q200 were based on the original Quickie, the design was completely different. Now defunct, the company sold over 2,000 kits in its lifetime.

The Quickie's canard wing used a GU25-5(11)8 airfoil, developed by Terence Nonweiler. It suffered performance degradation at low Reynolds numbers and in rainy conditions.^[2]

After losing a legal battle due to the crash of a home built aircraft, Quickie Quickie Aircraft Corporation - leaderless and fiscally strapped - went bankrupt in 1986^[3]

^ Kocivar, Ben (August 1981). 180 MPH Kit Canard. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
^ Galbraith, R. A. McD (1985-09-01). "The aerodynamic characteristics of a GU25-5(11)8 aerofoil for low Reynolds numbers". Experiments in Fluids. 3 (5): 253–256. doi:10.1007/BF00281769. ISSN 0723-4864. S2CID 117849066.
^ "Jewett's 'Big Bird'". www.check-six.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.

[Googlebooks-1] Kocivar, Ben (August 1981). 180 MPH Kit Canard. Retrieved 2010-02-28.

[2] Galbraith, R. A. McD (1985-09-01). "The aerodynamic characteristics of a GU25-5(11)8 aerofoil for low Reynolds numbers". Experiments in Fluids. 3 (5): 253–256. doi:10.1007/BF00281769. ISSN 0723-4864. S2CID 117849066.

[3] "Jewett's 'Big Bird'". www.check-six.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.

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