Jodel DR1050 Excellence

DR1050 Excellence
Jodel DR1050
Role	Amateur-built aircraft
National origin	France
Manufacturer	Jodel
Designer	Jodel and Pierre Robin
Status	Plans available (2012)
Unit cost	€400 (plans only, 2015)
Variants	Robin DR.200

The Jodel DR1050 Excellence and Ambassadeur are a family of French amateur-built aircraft, designed by Jean Délémontez (the principal designer of Jodel aircraft) in collaboration with Pierre Robin, as a development of the Jodel D.11. The aircraft was built in the 1960s both by Centre-Est Aeronautique (see Robin Aircraft) and by Société Aeronautique Normande but since the demise of the latter in 1968 has only been supplied as plans.

The DR1050 features a cantilever low-wing, a three-seat enclosed cockpit, fixed, tailwheel conventional landing gear or with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration. Tricycle landing gear is optional.

The later DR1050M Sicile, manufactured by Centre-Est Aeronautique, featured a swept fixed fin with separate rudder in place of the earlier straight fin/rudder. This design was further developed as the DR200/220/250 series and subsequently as the Robin DR400 series.

The aircraft is made from wood, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 8.72 m (28.6 ft) span wing employs a NACA 23012 airfoil and has an area of 13.60 m² (146.4 sq ft). The standard engine used is the 100 hp (75 kW) Continental O-200 four-stroke powerplant.

Data from Bayerl

General characteristics