The Frederick-Ames EOS/SFA was a single-seat sports aircraft designed in the United States in the 1970s with the intention of marketing it for homebuilding. It was a highly streamlined low-wing cantilevermonoplane with swept flying surfaces and retractable tricycle undercarriage. Its construction was of metal throughout.
Originally named simply the Eos (for the Greek goddess of the dawn), it was shown at the 1973 EAA Fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, albeit in incomplete form. When finished, it crashed on its first flight due to an engine seizure, was extensively damaged, and abandoned as too expensive to repair. Nevertheless, the aircraft was rebuilt in 1978 and re-engined with a Volkswagen engine conversion. Plans to market the design were never realised. Two other examples are known to exist.
Specificationsedit
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1980–81[1]
"Oshkosh: Sport aviation's greatest show". Flight: 527. 19 August 1978. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
January 01, 1970
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