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Jetex Sharky
This plan of the Wilmot Mansour 'Sharky' kit has been drawn by Howard Metcalfe
from the tracing that David
Carpenter made from an original model in the Southampton Hall of Aviation.
(David is the creator of the Jetex exhibit in the Hall of Aviation, and the photograph of
the Sharky kit comes from that exhibit.)
Howard has also contributed notes to help builders and flyers.
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Two ways to get the Sharky plan:
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Easy, but smaller
Print this page. At the bottom, and fitting within the page width, is
a copy of the plan.
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More work for you, but larger
Click this link
to a separate copy.
If you want to print it in full, you'll need to save it to disk, then open it in a graphics
program in order to print it.
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Howard writes:
According to my
rusty memory, the Sharky was for the Jetex 50 and with that it must have been a
spectacular performer. If I am right it will be just right for [a Rapier] L2 and a hot
rod with a L2HP.
Ben [Nead] mentioned adding downthrust but I notice there is an
effective downthrust of 2° already as the wing is set at 2° positive
and tail at 0°, therefore you may not need any additional downthrust.
Proof is in the pudding of course and good luck with flying.
I have worked out
that for a CG at 30%, it is 1.25" behind the root l.e. of the original but the
wing shape is so complicated that this can only be a best estimate and a
starting point.
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Jetex 'Sharky' kit
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Howard Metcalfe
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