Mathews Mr Easy Explained

The Mathews Mr Easy is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Lyle Mathews and associates and produced by the Vintage Ultralight and Lightplane Association of Marietta, Georgia. It was the sixth and final design of Mathews. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.[1] [2]

Design and development

The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 2540NaN0. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 2500NaN0.

Mr Easy features a strut-braced and cable-braced biplane layout, a single-seat, open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration, mounted above the tail boom tube.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 241NaN1 span wing has a wing area of 145square feet. The standard engine used is the 400NaN0 Rotax 447 two-stroke twin-cylinder powerplant.

Mr Easy has a typical empty weight of 250lb and a gross weight of 485lb, giving a useful load of 235lb. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is 205lb.

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a 400NaN0 engine is 1750NaN0.

The designer estimates the construction time from the supplied plans as 250 hours.

Operational history

In the United States ultralights are not required to be registered, and in April 2014 no examples were in fact registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of two had been registered at one time.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 286. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.
  2. Web site: Blueprints Price List. 23 April 2014. Perkins. Scott, V.U.L.A. Vintage Ultralight and Lightplane Assoc.. 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20140820004100/http://www.vula.org/blueprint_pricelist.html. 20 August 2014. dead.
  3. Web site: Make / Model Inquiry Results. 23 April 2014. Federal Aviation Administration. 23 April 2014.