Piel Zephir

{{short description|1970s French light aircraft}}  {{Infobox aircraft | name = CP.80 | logo = | logo_size = | image = Piel CP.801 AN0245892.jpg | alt = | caption = A CP.801 | long_caption = | other_names = | aircraft_type = Racing aircraft | aim = | outcome = | related = | national_origin = France | manufacturer = homebuilt | design_group = | designer = Claude Piel | builder = | issuer = | status = | owners = | primary_user = | more_users = | service = | major_applications = | proposals = | prototypes = | number_built = | construction_number = | civil_registration = | military_serial = | radio_code = | requirement = | aircraft_carried = | flights = | total_hours = | total_distance = | construction_date = | introduction = | retired = | first_flight = ca. 1974 | initiated = | in_service = | last_flight = | expected = | developed_from = | variants = | developed_into = | preservation = | fate = | predecessors = | successors = | concluded = }}

The '''Piel CP.80 Zephir (or Zef)''', '''Piel CP.801''' and '''Piel CP.802''' are racing aircraft developed in France in the 1970s and marketed for homebuilding.<ref name="JAE">{{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |isbn= 0-7106-0710-5|page=725}}</ref> They are compact, single-seat, single-engine monoplanes with low, cantilever wings.<ref name="JAWA 77">{{cite book |title=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1977-78 |editor1-last=Taylor |editor1-first=John W.R. |editor2-last=Munson |editor2-first=Kenneth |date=1977 |publisher=Jane's Yearbooks |location=London |isbn=9780531032787 |edition=Sixty-eighth year of issue.|page=496}}</ref><ref name="Markowski">{{cite book |last=Markowski |first=Mark |title=The Encyclopedia of Homebuilt Aircraft |publisher=TAB Books |location=Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania |year=1979 |isbn=0-8306-2256-X|page=256}}</ref>

==Design and development== The pilot sits in a fully enclosed cockpit and the tailwheel undercarriage is fixed.<ref name="JAWA 77"/><ref name="Markowski"/><ref name="WDLA11">Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 96. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X</ref> Although designed to be built of wood,<ref name="Markowski"/> the first CP.80 to fly (registered F-PTXL and named ''Zef'') was built from composite materials by Pierre Calvel and beat even the designer's own CP.80 into the air.<ref name="JAWA 77"/> Calvel's CP-80 was entered in the French Formula One air races in 1976, but failed to qualify.<ref name="F1">{{cite journal|last1=TAYLOR|first1=JOHN|title=French Formula One|journal=Flight International|date=31 July 1976|pages=262-263}}</ref>

==Variants== ;Piel CP.80 :Single seat racer, typically powered by a {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Continental O-200 for Formula One Air Racing.<ref name="WDLA11" /><ref name="WDLA15">{{cite journal|last1=Tacke|first1=Willi|first2=Marino|last2=Boric|title=World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16|journal=Flying Pages Europe SARL|date=2015|page=101|issn=1368-485X}}</ref> ;Piel CP.801 ;Piel CP.802

==Specifications (CP.80)== {{Aircraft specs |ref=<ref name=JAWA75-76>{{cite book|editor1-last=Taylor|editor1-first=John W.R.|title=Jane's all the world's aircraft, 1975-76|date=1975|publisher=Franklin Watts Inc.|location=New York|isbn=978-0531032503|edition=66th annual|pages=77-78}}</ref> |prime units?=met  |genhide=

|crew=1 |length m=5.3 |span m=6 |height m=1.7 |wing area sqm=6.2 |aspect ratio=5.8 |airfoil=NACA 23012 |empty weight kg=260 |gross weight kg= |gross weight lb= |gross weight note= |max takeoff weight kg=380 |fuel capacity={{convert|40|L|USgal impgal|abbr=on}} |more general=  |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Continental C90-8F |eng1 type=4-cyl air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine |eng1 hp=90 |prop blade number=2 |prop name=wooden fixed pitch propeller |prop dia m=1.52  |max speed kmh=310 |cruise speed kmh=240 |cruise speed note=at 60% power at {{convert|1200|m|abbr=on}} |stall speed kmh=95 |never exceed speed kmh=380 |range km=450 |range note=at 60% power |combat range km= |combat range miles= |combat range nmi= |combat range note= |ferry range km= |ferry range miles= |ferry range nmi= |ferry range note= |endurance= |ceiling m=6000 |g limits= |roll rate= |climb rate ms=12 |time to altitude= |wing loading kg/m2=61.2 |fuel consumption kg/km= |fuel consumption lb/mi= |power/mass=0.177 kW/kg (0.107 hp/lb |more performance= |avionics= }}

==References== {{Commons category|Piel CP.80}} {{reflist}}

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