List of slowest fixed-wing aircraft

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This article lists fixed-wing aircraft with a stall speed of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph) or less, and certain other aircraft. It does not list helicopters or vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

Fixed-wing aircraft are limited by their stall speed, the slowest airspeed at which they can maintain level flight. This depends on weight, however an aircraft will typically have a published stall speed at maximum takeoff weight.

Short take-off and landing aircraft typically have a low stall speed.

Slowest aircraft[edit]

The MacCready Gossamer Condor is a human-powered aircraft capable of flight as slow as 8 miles per hour (13 km/h). Its successor, the MacCready Gossamer Albatross can fly as slow as 9.23 miles per hour (14.85 km/h).[1] It has a maximum speed of 18 miles per hour (29 km/h).[2]

The Ruppert Archaeopteryx has a certified stall speed of 30–39 kilometres per hour (19–24 mph).[3]

The Vought XF5U can fly as slow as 32 kilometres per hour (20 mph).[4]

The Tapanee Pegazair-100 stall speed is 45 kilometres per hour (28 mph).

The Zenith STOL CH 701 and ICP Savannah both have stall speeds of 48 kilometres per hour (30 mph).

The Slepcev Storch has a stall speed of 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph). It is a 3/4 scale replica of the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, which had a stall speed of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph).[5]

The British Auster WW2 reconnaissance aircraft had a placarded stall speed of 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph),[6] but that was merely the speed at which its control surfaces lost authority. As reported in many personal accounts by the pilots in their memoirs, the speed at which the aircraft would actually stall was 24 miles per hour (39 km/h). Either speed making it the slowest aircraft used in WW2 and possibly the slowest conventional warplane of all time.[7]

The Antonov An-2 had no published stall speed. At low speeds its elevator cannot generate enough downforce to exceed the stalling angle of attack. In practice it could maintain approximately 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) without descending.[8]

The slowest jet-powered aircraft is the PZL M-15 Belphegor, with a stall speed of 58.5 knots (108.3 km/h; 67.3 mph)[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Flight of Human Powered Aircraft: Gossamer Albatross by AeroVironment, Inc". AeroVironment, Inc. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  2. ^ "7 Extreme Planes: the Biggest, Smallest, Fastest and Slowest". PlaneFinder.net. 17 April 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. ^ "ARCHAEOPTERYX". www.ruppert-composite.ch. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  4. ^ "It Became Known Why The USA Created The World's Slowest XF5U Plane". 8 September 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Fieseler Fi 156 Storch - Specifications - Technical Data / Description". www.flugzeuginfo.net. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  6. ^ "The British Taylorcraft". Taylorcraft Foundation. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  7. ^ Munro, Ronald Lyell. Above the Battle. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781473872752. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  8. ^ "AN2 specs". www.an2flyers.org. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Dusting Crops With the Jet Powered PZL M-15 Belphegor Biplane". Disciples of Flight. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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