Stits SA-5 Flut-R-Bug

The Flut-R-Bug can be built as a single place or tandem seat aircraft. It was an early complete-kit aircraft, sold with a pre-welded fuselage. Stits planned to deliver 100 kits to the German market for homebuilding.[2] Examples have been completed in the United States and in Europe.

The SA-5 is a mid-wing, tricycle landing gear design with folding wings. The aircraft was intended to be towed by a vehicle by the (lowered) tail on its main gear with wings folded along its sides. The cockpit can be open, or covered with a bubble canopy. The fuselage is constructed from welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering. The wings use spruce wooden spars with fabric covering.[3]

SA-5A

Single place variant

SA-6A

Two seat tandem variant with a 1,015 lb (460 kg) gross weight[4]

SA-6B

Two seat variant with wider span wings and larger tail surface[5]

Data from Sport Aviation

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 17 ft (5.2 m)
• Wingspan: 23 ft (7.0 m)
• Wing area: 103.5 sq ft (9.62 m²)
• Airfoil: NACA 4412
• Empty weight: 528 lb (239 kg)
• Fuel capacity: 9 U.S. gallons (34 L; 7.5 imp gal)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 horizontally opposed piston, 65 hp (48 kW)
• Propellers: 2-bladed Sensenich, 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) diameter

Performance

• Maximum speed: 87 kn (100 mph, 160 km/h)
• Cruise speed: 70 kn (80 mph, 130 km/h)
• Stall speed: 35 kn (40 mph, 64 km/h)
• Range: 170 nmi (200 mi, 320 km)
• Service ceiling: 12,000 ft (3,700 m)
• Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (5.1 m/s)
• Wing loading: 6.4 lb/sq ft (31 kg/m²)