Rutan Quickie

Quickie Q1
Quickie in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
Role	Single seat aircraft Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	Rutan Aircraft Factory (prototype) Quickie Aircraft (production)
Designer	Burt Rutan, Tom Jewett, Gene Sheehan
First flight	November 1977
Status	kit production ended
Number built	350+
Variants	QAC Quickie Q2 Viking Dragonfly

The Rutan Model 54 Quickie is a lightweight single-seat taildragger aircraft of composite construction, configured with tandem wings.

The Quickie was primarily designed by Burt Rutan^[1] as a low-powered, highly efficient kit-plane. Its tandem wing design has one anhedral forward wing and one slightly larger dihedral rear wing. The forward wing has full-span control surfaces and is thus similar to a canard wing, but is considerably larger. The aircraft has unusual landing gear, with the main wheels located at the tips of the forward wing.