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Graham Lee's Nieuport was designed to meet Canadian ultralight regulations. Although the plane is dimensionally built to 7/8 scale, it is much, much lighter than the original plane. Graham's prototype weighed something like 270 lbs empty, and IIRC was powered by a 430cc Cuyuna two-stroke with a homemade reduction drive.
Even the somewhat heavier VW-powered birds only weigh in the neighborhood of 400 lbs empty.
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