The Acro Sport is a single-seat
aerobatic
Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glid ...
sportsplane designed by US aviation enthusiast
Paul Poberezny in the early 1970s for
homebuilding. Plans are marketed by
Acro Sport Inc.
The Acro Sport is a short-span
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
of conventional
taildragger configuration, typically built with an open
cockpit
A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a Pilot in command, pilot controls the aircraft.
The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ...
and
spatted main
undercarriage
Undercarriage is the part of a moving vehicle that is underneath the main body of the vehicle. The term originally applied to this part of a horse-drawn carriage, and usage has since broadened to include:
*The landing gear of an aircraft.
*The ch ...
. Its structure is a fabric-covered, steel tube
fuselage and
tail group, with a wood wing structure.
Variants
The
Acro Sport II is the two place version of the Acro Sport I
Specifications
References
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External links
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Acro Sport aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
1970s United States sport aircraft
Poberezny aircraft
Aerobatic aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1972