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Ritz
Standard
ultralight, ultra lite aircraft, amateur built, experimental,
homebuilt aircraft.
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Jerry Ritz -
As an Aeronut I met Jerry in 1948 when I was invited by them to
join.
The invitation was as a result of my showing at the Nats that
year in
Olathe. I was 16 then and just become a senior. He was a great
builder,
flier and innovator.
What most do not know his World Champion success was very much
due to
the fact that our mutual friend Bill Erlich who owned his own
furniture
business practically closed down his own business for nearly a
year so
he could take over Jerry's business. This was at Jerry's request
so he
could concentrate on refining himself and his models to go to
Russia for
the Champs.
In later years Charlie Sotich and I met Jerry at OshKosh
to see him and his Ultra Light airplane the year he crashed it
and
killed himself.
Ironically the crash was mostly due to the wing construction,
Fike
lattice and the material pine. The two were not compatable. The
lattice
would not flex and the pine could not take the stress as
aircraft grade
spruce would have. The wing literally exploded. He and his
youthful
assistant had flown it many times and were ready to sell kits of
the
airplane.
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I took many pics of him with the plane then at Oshkosh. He
had a photographer taking sales movies when he crashed. Ironic
again,
that morning his assistant could not make it and the
photographer urged
Jerry to make it fly faster so he put it in a dive overstressing
it.
There was no dihedral or flex for stress
relief. The wing was a flat Clark Y like
wing medium aspect ratio. He told us that he
also built a successful man powered airplane
for the Kemmer Prize. I believe the Ritz
glider is in the AMA Museum after being
repaired by Art Christenson a few years
back.
Author : Ed Schema |
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Ritz Standard A ultralight aircraft
specifications |
| Empty Weight |
200 lbs |
| Gross Weight |
475 lbs |
| Wing Span |
36 ft |
| Wing Chord |
4 ft |
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| Wing Area |
140 ft.� |
| Engine |
250 Zenoah |
| Prop |
54 x 27 |
| Fuel Capacity |
5 gallons |
| Takeoff Speed |
25 mph |
| Cruise Speed |
30 to 50 mph |
| Top Speed |
60 mph |
| Stall Speed |
15 mph |
| Climb Rate |
400 ft./m |
| Set up Time |
20 minutes |
| Building Time |
200 hours,
approximately |
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Ritz
Standard
ultralight, amateur built, experimental,
homebuilt aircraft.
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