Alvarez Polliwagen

Polliwagen
General information
TypeHomebuilt aircraft
Designer
Joseph Alvarez

The Alvarez Polliwagen is a 1970s homebuilt aircraft. The aircraft has a combination of many high performance features not typically found in a Volkswagen air-cooled engine-powered homebuilt.

Design and development

The Polliwagen is a low wing, side-by-side configuration, T tailed, tricycle landing gear equipped aircraft with tip tanks. The aircraft was developed and tested with a one quarter scale radio controlled model. Ailerons and flaps are full span. The fuselage is built from composites with foam cores. The aircraft's engine is configured with a constant speed propeller. Entrance is through a swing up canopy.

Specifications (Polliwagen)

Data from Plane and Pilot

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

References

  1. ↑ David E. Pullmann. Acceptance of Mediocrity. p. 197.
  2. ↑ "none". Flight International. 22 August 1977.
  3. 1 2 "Polliwagen". Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "none". Popular Mechanics: 77. January 1980.