The Ganzavia GAK-22 Dino was an unusual light utility aircraft built in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...
in the early 1990s. In configuration, it was a
biplane
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with
cantilever
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wings and a very pronounced negative stagger, making it almost a tandem wing design. The pilot and a single passenger sat side by side under an expansive
bubble canopy
A bubble canopy is an aircraft canopy constructed without bracing, for the purpose of providing a wider unobstructed field of view to the pilot, often providing 360° all-round visibility.
The designs of bubble canopies can drastically vary; s ...
, and it had a fixed tricycle undercarriage. The fuselage was of welded steel tube construction, and the wings of
duralumin
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Its ...
, with the whole aircraft skinned in fabric, other than the forward fuselage which had aluminium skin. A single prototype flew in 1993, but the project was abandoned by the mid-1990s, with the aircraft itself placed in the
Transport Museum of Budapest (Közlekedési Múzeum).
Specifications
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GAK-22 Dino
1980s Hungarian civil utility aircraft
Biplanes with negative stagger
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1993
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