Monnett Monerai

Monerai
Monerai S
Role	Sailplane
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Monnett Experimental Aircraft
Designer	John Monnett
First flight	1978
Introduction	1978
Number built	100 by January 1984 from 375 kits sold.

The Monnett Monerai is a sailplane that was developed in the United States in the late 1970s for homebuilding. It is a conventional pod-and-boom design with a V-tail and a mid-mounted cantilever wing of constant chord.

The kit assembles in approximately 600 hours. It has bonded wing skins and incorporates 90° flaps for glide path control. The fuselage is of aluminum tube construction encased in a fiberglass shell. A spar fitting modification was released in 1983.

A powered version was designed as the Monerai P with an engine mounted on a pylon above the wings. A Sachs Rotary Engine was chosen for the prototype. A version with extended wing tips is also available (Monerai Max) which increases the span to 12 m (39 ft) and raises the glide ratio from 28:1 to more than 30:1.

Both the powered Monerai P and the unpowered Monerai S versions are identical structurally.

General characteristics

Performance

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