Gene Turner/Adams Aeronatics T-100D Twin Boom Light Aircraft & Projects

[hesham]

Hi,


the well known designer,Gene Turner and his T-40 light aircraft of 1960s,
and he designed the T-100D,it was a high-wing pusher light aircraft in twin
boom configuration,it was purchased by the Adams Aeronautics Company.


http://www.adamsaero.com/3.html
http://turnert-40airplanes.com/new_page_3.htm

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1-2-1984,

Turner designed some aircraft,T-40,T-77,T-80 &T-100,with this T-85 amphibian
twin boom concept

 

[Stargazer]

There was only one T-100 "Mariah" built by Turner himself [N116ET (c/n 1001)]. The rest were produced by Adams Aeronautics.
The T-85 was never built, and neither was the T-80 "Texas Tern" tandem-wing flying boat project.
Only the T-40 "Ophelia Bumps" series was built in some numbers (only from plans, as Turner worked for the FAA and there would have been a conflict of interest if he had sold kits): T-40, T-40A, T-40AS (Super T-40A), T-40B (aka T-77), T-40C (aka T-77A).
No two T-40A aircraft were quite the same. Over 80 aircraft were built in the T-40/T-77 series, but they were all different, depending on what engine, what canopy, what tail, what wings and what landing gear the builders chose. For that same reason there can be single-seat T-40A types, but also two-seat T-40s, taildragger or tri-gear T-40As, etc. A researcher's nightmare!

 

[hesham]

From JAWA 1987-88,

the T-110.

 

[Stargazer]

the T-110.

New to me, thanks.