The Fisher Culex and Culite are a family of American two-seat, twin-engined

monoplane A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...

s. The aircraft is supplied in the form of blueprints for amateur construction, originally by

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and now by Mike Fisher Aircraft.Fisher, Mike
The Culex Aircraft
, retrieved 21 February 2015]

Development

Both designs are mid-wing monoplanes, constructed predominantly from wood, with tandem seating for two, with fixed

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. Empty weights for finished aircraft are typically . The designer indicates that the inspiration for the design was the

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deHavilland Mosquito bomber.

Variants

;Culex :Twin engine, mid-wing monoplane powered by two Limbach 2000

four-stroke A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either directio ...

piston engines. ;Culite :Twin engine, mid-wing monoplane powered by two Rotax 503

two-stroke A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston, one up and one down, in one revolution of the crankshaft in contrast to a four-stroke engine which re ...

piston engines.Lambert, 1991 p 536.

Specifications (typical Culex)

References

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Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear