Monnett Moni

{{Short description|Sport aircraft developed in the early 1980s}} __NOTOC__  {{Infobox aircraft | name = Moni | logo = | logo_size = | image = Monnett moni.JPG | alt = | caption = Monnett Moni on display in the National Air and Space Museum | long_caption = | other_names = | aircraft_type = Sport aircraft | aim = | outcome = | related = | national_origin = United States | manufacturer = Monnett Experimental Aircraft Inc for [[Homebuilt aircraft|homebuilding]] | design_group = | designer = [[John Monnett]] | builder = | issuer = | status = | owners = | primary_user = | more_users = | service = | major_applications = | proposals = | prototypes = | number_built = 380 kits sold between 1982 and 1986<ref name="NASM fact sheet">{{cite web|url=http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp?profile=objects&newstyle=single&quicksearch=A19920066000 |title=Monnett Moni |work=Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum website |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |accessdate=2008-10-08}}</ref> | construction_number = | civil_registration = | military_serial = | radio_code = | requirement = | aircraft_carried = | flights = | total_hours = | total_distance = | construction_date = | introduction = | retired = | first_flight = July 24, 1981 | initiated = | in_service = | last_flight = | expected = | developed_from = | variants = [[Electric Aircraft Corporation ElectraFlyer-C]] | developed_into = | preservation = | fate = | predecessors = | successors = | concluded = }}

The '''Monnett Moni''' is a sport aircraft developed in the United States in the early 1980s and marketed for [[homebuilt aircraft|homebuilding]].

Designed by [[John Monnett]], who coined the term "air recreation vehicle" to describe it,<ref name="NASM fact sheet" /> it is a single-seat motorglider with a low, cantilever wing and a V-tail. Construction is of metal throughout, and it is intended to be easy and inexpensive to build and fly. Like many sailplanes, the main undercarriage is a single monowheel, which in this case was mounted in a streamlined fairing beneath the fuselage and is not retractable, with a steerable tailwheel behind it. Builders are also given the option of constructing their example with fixed tricycle undercarriage.<ref name="Jane's">''Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1984-85'', 756</ref> Power is provided by a small two-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled engine.

[[File:Moni-SUH.jpg|thumb|Monnett Moni at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum]]

Examples of the Moni are on display at the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]] of the [[National Air and Space Museum]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!228134!0|title=Monnett Experimental Aircraft, Inc. (MONI) Collection, 1981|work=Smithsonian Institution Research Information System|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=2008-10-07}}</ref> and the [[EAA AirVenture Museum]].<ref name="EAA">{{cite web|url=http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Monnett%20Moni.asp |title=Monnet Moni – N107MX |work=AirVenture Museum website |publisher=EAA |accessdate=2008-10-08}}</ref>

==Variants== The [[Sonex Xenos]] motorglider is an evolution of the Moni, and provided much of the design foundation for the [[Sonex Aircraft|Sonex]] line of aircraft.<ref name="soaring">Rozansky, Murry: [https://www.sonexaircraft.com/press/kitplanes_xenos_0405.pdf "Soaring with Sonex: Designer John Monnett returns to the motorglider scene with the two-place Xenos,"] April 2005, ''[[Kitplanes (magazine)|Kitplanes]],'' retrieved August 22, 2020</ref>

The all-electric-powered [[Electric Aircraft Corporation ElectraFlyer-C]] is a modified Monnett Moni in [[taildragger]] configuration.<ref name="concept">Laboda, Amy: [https://www.kitplanes.com/electraflyer-c-concept-airplane-flying-2/ "ElectraFlyer-C Concept Airplane Flying,"] August 1, 2008, ''[[Kitplanes]]'' retrieved August 22, 2020</ref>

==Specifications (with tricycle gear)== {{Aircraft specs |ref=<ref name="Jane's" /> |prime units? = imp |crew=One pilot |length m=4.46 |length ft=14 |length in=8 |span m=8.38 |span ft=27 |span in=6 |height m=1.07 |height ft=3 |height in=6 |wing area sqm=7.0 |wing area sqft=75 |empty weight kg=118 |empty weight lb=260 |gross weight kg=227 |gross weight lb=500 |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=[[IAME KFM 107]] |eng1 kw=22 |eng1 hp=30 |max speed kmh=193 |max speed mph=120 |cruise speed kmh=177 |cruise speed mph=110 |range km=515 |range miles=320 |ceiling m=3,810 |ceiling ft=12,500 |glide ratio=20 |climb rate ms=2.5 |climb rate ftmin=500 |sink rate ms=0.85 |sink rate ftmin=167 }}  {{aircontent  |see also= |related= |similar aircraft= |lists= }}

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==References== {{commons category|Monnett Moni}} * {{cite book |title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1984-85 |url=https://archive.org/details/janesallworldsai8485john |url-access=registration |publisher=Jane's Publishing |location=London }}

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