TYPE: Tandem-seat ultralight.
PROGRAMME: Mockup displayed at Paris in June 2003, at which time a prototype was reportedly flying.
DESIGN FEATURES: Optimised for training and patrol, civil and military, operating from unprepared strips. Low, constant-chord wing and swcptback tail surfaces. Wings fold for storage or transport.
FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual.
STRUCTURE: Metal wing with composites flaps, ailerons and tips. Tubular metal fuselage frame with composites skin. Metal tailplane with composites elevator; metal fin and composites rudder.
LANDING GEAR: Tricycle type; fixed. Main wheels 15x6.00-6; nosewheel 13x5.00-6.
POWER PLANT: One 73.5 kW (98.6 hp) Rotax 912 flat-tour driving an Arplast Ecoprop three-blade propeller. Fuel tanks in wings, combined capacity 95 litres (25.1 US gallons; 20.9 Imp gallons).
AVIONICS: Single screen (103 x 80 ram; 4 x 3lA in) FMS, plus GPS.
EQUIPMENT: Ballistic parachute.
DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL: | Not announced |
WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS: | |
- Max T-O weight | 472.5 kg (1,041 lb) |
PERFORMANCE: | |
- Max cruising speed | 108 kt (200km/h; 124 mph) |
- Stalling speed | 33 kt (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
- Max rate of climb at S/L | 610 m (2,000 ft)/min |
- T-O run | 85 m (280 ft) |
- Landing run | 100 m (330 ft) |
- Endurance | 7h |