The Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug is a homebuilt aircraft designed by Ray Stits.

Design and development

The Flut-R-Bug can be built as a single place or tandem seat aircraft. It was an early complete-kit aircraft, sold with a pre-welded fuselage. Stits planned to deliver 100 kits to the German market for homebuilding. Examples have been completed in the United States and in Europe. The SA-5 is a mid-wing, tricycle landing gear design with folding wings. The aircraft was intended to be towed by a vehicle by the (lowered) tail on its main gear with wings folded along its sides. The cockpit can be open, or covered with a bubble canopy. The fuselage is constructed from welded steel tubing with

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. The wings use

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wooden spars with fabric covering.

Variants

;SA-5A :Single place variant ;SA-6A :Two seat tandem variant with a gross weight ;SA-6B :Two seat variant with wider span wings and larger tail surface

Specifications (Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug)

References

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