A sleek looking single-place airplane named CEA-311 Anequim, the Portuguese word for great white shark, recently took flight in Divinópolis, Brazil. The airplane looks a lot like a racer but it was designed specifically to break speed records. Anequim was designed and built by professor Paulo Iscold and a team of students at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The first flight lasted 18 minutes and pilot Gúnar Armin achieved a top speed of 210 knots at 20 inches of manifold pressure, nowhere near full power. That’s quite impressive for an airplane powered by a four-cylinder Lycoming engine. The engine has been modified by Sky Dynamics to improve performance.
