Quickie Q1 | |
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Quickie in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. | |
Role | Single seat aircraft |
Manufacturer | Rutan Aircraft Factory (prototype) Quickie Aircraft (production) |
Designer | Burt Rutan, Tom Jewett, Gene Sheehan |
First flight | November 1977 |
Status | kit production ended |
Number built | 350+ |
Variants | QAC Quickie Q2 Viking Dragonfly |
The Rutan Model 54 Quickie is a lightweight single-seat taildragger aircraft of composite construction, configured with tandem wings.
The Quickie was primarily designed by Burt Rutan[1] as a low-powered, highly efficient kit-plane. Its tandem wing design has one anhedral forward wing and one slightly larger dihedral rear wing. The forward wing has full-span control surfaces and is thus similar to a canard wing, but is considerably larger. The aircraft has unusual landing gear, with the main wheels located at the tips of the forward wing.