The Monnett Monerai is a sailplane that was developed in the United States in the late 1970s for homebuilding. It is a conventional pod-and-boom design with a

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and a mid-mounted cantilever wing of constant chord. The kit assembles in approximately 600 hours. It has bonded wing skins and incorporates 90° flaps for glide path control. The pod-and-boom fuselage consists of a welded steel tube truss encased in a fiberglass shell, with an aluminum tube for the tailboom. A spar fitting modification was released in 1983. A powered version was designed as the Monerai P with an engine mounted on a pylon above the wings. A Sachs Rotary Engine was chosen for the prototype. A version with extended wing tips is also available (Monerai Max) which increases the span to 12 m (39 ft) and raises the glide ratio from 28:1 to more than 30:1.Said, Bob: ''1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine'', page 123. Soaring Society of America, November 1983. USPS 499-920 Both the powered Monerai P and the unpowered Monerai S versions are identical structurally.

Variants

;Monerai S :unpowered glider ;Monerai P :

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equipped with the Zenoah G-25 or the

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engine. ;Monerai Max :Monerai P version with extended wing tips

Aircraft on display

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* Serial Number 22 on display at the

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, Windsor Locks, CT * S/N 323, Museum of Flying, Santa Monica Airport, CA

Specifications (Monerai S)

References

External links

Monerai entry at aero-web.org
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