The Monnett Monerai is a sailplane that was developed in the United States in the late 1970s for homebuilding. It is a conventional pod-and-boom design with a V-tail and a mid-mounted cantilever wing of constant chord.
The kit assembles in approximately 600 hours. It has bonded wing skins and incorporates 90° flaps for glide path control. The pod-and-boom fuselage consists of a welded steel tube truss encased in a fiberglass shell, with an aluminum tube for the tailboom. A spar fitting modification was released in 1983.
A powered version was designed as the Monerai P with an engine mounted on a pylon above the wings. A Sachs Rotary Engine was chosen for the prototype. A version with extended wing tips is also available (Monerai Max) which increases the span to 12 m (39 ft) and raises the glide ratio from 28:1 to more than 30:1.Said, Bob: 1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine, page 123. Soaring Society of America, November 1983. USPS 499-920
The powered Monerai P and the unpowered Monerai S versions are identical structurally.
Variants Monerai S unpowered glider Monerai P powered glider equipped with the Zenoah G-25 or the KFM 107 engine. Monerai Max Monerai P version with extended wing tips
Aircraft on display US Southwest Soaring Museum Serial Number 22 on display at the New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT S/N 323, Museum of Flying, Santa Monica Airport, CA Unregistered Monerai Glider on display at Shannon Aviation Museum, Co. Clare, Ireland. The first Monerai known to be built in the UK by Loudon Blair and Mervyn Farrell is now on display at the Ulster Aviation Society
Specifications (Monerai S)
References
External links
Monerai entry at aero-web.org