Soviet Designer Claims Smallest Piloted Plane
From Reuters
MOSCOW —
A Soviet designer says he has developed the world’s smallest piloted airplane, Tass news agency reported Wednesday.
The aircraft designed by Viktor Dmitriev weighs just 103 pounds, Tass said. It is 3.3 feet tall and about 10 feet long. Its maximum speed is 78 m.p.h.
The plane needs just five pints of fuel an hour and can take off and land on about 100 feet of asphalt, gravel, ground or grass, Tass said. Dmitriev suggested that the plane could prove useful to geologists, ranchers and farmers, the report added.
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