WILLIAMS-CANGIE "SUNDANCER"

WILLIAMS-CANGIE “SUNDANCER”

Plane & Pilot

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 12:00 AM ET

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Edited By: Omar Filipović

Key Takeaways:

The Sundancer is a high-performance, single-seat racing biplane co-designed by Art Williams and Carl Cangie, and famously flown by Sidney White.
Built around the Bushby Midget Mustang fuselage, it features a flush-riveted stressed skin and lightweight alloy wings.
It achieved immediate and significant racing success, setting a national record on its first flight, winning the 1973 Reno championship, and all five races it entered in 1974.

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The Sundancer is built around the basic fuselage and tail unit of the Bushby Midget Mustang. The single seat racing biplane was co-designed by Art Williams and Carl Cangie, built by Ralph Thenhaus, and flown by Sidney White. It set a national class record of faster than 194 mph the first time that it was flown. It won the championship at Reno in 1973, then went on to victories in the five races in which it was entered in 1974. The fuselage of the Sundancer has a flush-riveted stressed skin. The wings are a conventional lightweight alloy structure with no flaps.