Quickie Aircraft

Quickie Aircraft
Industry	Homebuilt Aircraft
Founded	1978; 48 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.

A Quickie Q2, with vortex generators on the canard.

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]

The QAC was sued and lost a legal battle due to the crash of a single place Quickie. The judgement was overturned by an appeals court, but the financial damage had been done. Then, partner Tom Jewett was killed in the crash of a different aircraft design. The Quickie Aircraft Corporation - leaderless and fiscally strapped - went bankrupt in 1986.^[3]

Gallery

QAC Quickie Q2 in flight
QAC Quickie Q2, canopy up
QAC Quickie Q2, side view
Opening turn in the 2023 Bluegrass 150 air race.

References

↑ Kocivar, Ben (August 1981). "180 MPH Kit Canard". Popular Science. pp. 58–60. 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. Bibcode:1985ExFl....3..253G. doi:10.1007/BF00281769. ISSN 0723-4864. S2CID 117849066.
↑ "Jewett's 'Big Bird'". www.check-six.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.

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[Googlebooks-1] Kocivar, Ben (August 1981). "180 MPH Kit Canard". Popular Science. pp. 58–60. 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. Bibcode:1985ExFl....3..253G. 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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