X-Mozilla-Keys:                                                                                 
Bill Freeman wrote:

Guys,

Get all the inside story on the AR-5 in Oct Kitplanes.  Nice article by
Dave Martin.  Sounds like a pretty neat airplane, altho 2 strokers
have some weird quirks as A/C engines.  Stable, excellent controls
and very fast.   Much of the performance is due to the extreme attention
to airfoil smoothness and lots of detail development.

Paul - it dumps its cooling air and exhaust out the sides of the cowl, and
the cowling uses external expansion, a personal favorite that obviously
provides extremely low cooling drag in this application.
In fact, the fuselage looks a lot like a tiny Corsair.

Bill

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