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, built around the basic fuselage and tail unit of the Bushby Midget Mustang.
It achieved immediate success, setting a national class record of over 194 mph on its first flight.
The aircraft demonstrated dominant performance, winning the Reno championship in 1973 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.