DSK-1 Hawk and DSK-2 Golden Hawk | |
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Role | Recreational aircraft |
Manufacturer | Homebuilt |
Designer | Richard Killingsworth |
First flight | 26 May 1973 [1] |
The DSK Airmotive DSK-1 Hawk was an unusual homebuilt aircraft designed in the United States in the early 1970s. While the design itself was utterly conventional - a single-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage - its method of construction was not, since the DSK-1 Hawk used a surplus 200 US Gal military drop tank as its fuselage. Designer Richard Killingsworth sold over 250 sets of plans. [2]
The DSK-1 featured "drooping ailerons" that acted as flaps for short field operations.
A follow-on design, the DSK-2 Golden Hawk with a more conventional fuselage for builders who could not obtain a suitable drop tank. This was expected to fly in 1976, but on 12 April 1975, Killingsworth was killed when the Hawk prototype crashed shortly after takeoff.
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1980–81 [1]
General characteristics
Performance
DSK-1 Hawk and DSK-2 Golden Hawk | |
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Role | Recreational aircraft |
Manufacturer | Homebuilt |
Designer | Richard Killingsworth |
First flight | 26 May 1973 [1] |
The DSK Airmotive DSK-1 Hawk was an unusual homebuilt aircraft designed in the United States in the early 1970s. While the design itself was utterly conventional - a single-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage - its method of construction was not, since the DSK-1 Hawk used a surplus 200 US Gal military drop tank as its fuselage. Designer Richard Killingsworth sold over 250 sets of plans. [2]
The DSK-1 featured "drooping ailerons" that acted as flaps for short field operations.
A follow-on design, the DSK-2 Golden Hawk with a more conventional fuselage for builders who could not obtain a suitable drop tank. This was expected to fly in 1976, but on 12 April 1975, Killingsworth was killed when the Hawk prototype crashed shortly after takeoff.
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1980–81 [1]
General characteristics
Performance