Buehler Executive

[Mark Nankivil]

Good Day All -

Came across this from a cut out article in Aero News. Don't know which isse/year. Anyone else recognize it?

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[riggerrob]

Wow!
Never heard of Buehler Executive before.
Did it fly?
I suspect that it would have suffered many of the same balance and stability problems as the next dozen straight-wing canards. The engine is too far aft for Rutan-style canard balance and the ridders are too far forward for yaw stability.

 

[Motocar]

Lateral Blueprint Beuhler, Soon I will complete the profiles on the floor and front

 

[Motocar]

Blueprint Buehler by Motocar

 

[boxkite]

Please note that it's spelled Buehler, not Beuhler.

See NTSB entries MIA73FKT66 and MIA81FKT82.

 

[Aerohydro]

Regarding the NTSB entry MIA81FKT82 - note that the aircraft was described as being a push-pull canard, ie it had two engines.

The entry indicates that the pilot had 5 hours flight time with this particular aircraft, but that it was also a fatal accident, unfortunately.

 

[Aerohydro]

A newspaper article - spread across two pages - about the Buehler Executive. There are quite a few differences between the aircraft seen in the undated Aero News article, at the start of this thread, and the machine profiled in this newspaper piece.

 

[Aerohydro]

Further newspaper articles - again spread over two pages - detailing the fatal accident.

 

[Motocar]

Please note that it's spelled Buehler, not Beuhler.

See NTSB entries MIA73FKT66 and MIA81FKT82.

Ready

 

[Motocar]

Further newspaper articles - again spread over two pages - detailing the fatal accident.

It is interesting to know the story behind the first photograph, in reality the plane was quite modified, the arrangement of the front engine is somewhat improvised, while the photographs provide lights on the rear cover of the engine, the use of double tail and rear horizontal stabilizer while maintaining the canard wing, the latter presents two "Fences" on the marginal edge, The update took away a lot of its charm and graceful ways. Sad end.

 

[Motocar]

New Blueprint Buehler

 

[Arjen]

Fixed typo in drawing + filename.

 

[Aerohydro]

... The update took away a lot of its charm and graceful ways ...

True. There's a famous engineering saying; "simplicate and add more lightness" - often attributed to William Bushnell Stout, though it was one of his colleagues, Gordon Hooton, who actually came up with the phrase.

For whatever reason - design-wise - those behind the Buehler Executive chose to move in the opposite direction.