TYPE: Single-seat ultralight/motor glider.

PROGRAMME: Design started 1997; first flight of prototype September 1998; construction of first production aircraft began 1999. Marketed as fast-build kit or ready to fly.

CUSTOMERS: Total of seven ordered and five built by December 2001, including one export to Chile.

COSTS: Kit less engine, propeller and instruments, €23,000, plus tax (2003).

DESIGN FEATURES: Pod-and-boom configuration, with T tail. Aimed at meeting FAI ultralight and JAR 22 certification criteria.

FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual; cable-operated elevators, flaperons and rudder; three-position flaps, deflections -5, 0 and +5°. Airbrakes on upper wing surfaces.

STRUCTURE: Fuselage moulded in half-shells of glass fibre/epoxy with plywood bulkheads. Wings have carbon fibre spar caps and glass fibre skins. Fabric-covered rudder. Optional winglets. Quoted build time 300 hours.

LANDING GEAR: Non-retractable monowheel type; tailwheel incorporated in base of rudder for directional control on the ground; small outrigger wheel at each wingtip. Drum brake on mainwheel.

POWER PLANT: One 13.4 kW (18 hp) JPX D-320 two-stroke flat twin with 2.38:1 reduction drive to a carbon fibre two-blade folding pusher propeller (three-blade propeller being tested October 2001). Fuel capacity 19 litres (5.0 US gallons; 4.2 Imp gallons).

EQUIPMENT: Optional ballistic parachute recovery system.

DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL:

  • Wing span: 13.74 m (45 ft 1 in)
  • Length overall: 5.90 m (19 ft 4¼ in)
  • Propeller diameter: 1.28 m (4 ft 2½ in)

AREAS:

  • Wings, gross: 11.62 m² (125.1 sq ft)

WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS:

  • Weight empty: 196 kg (432 lb)
  • Max T-O weight: 310 kg (683 lb)

PERFORMANCE, POWERED:

  • Never-exceed speed (VNE): 97 kt (179 km/h; 111 mph)
  • Cruising speed at 75% power: 65 kt (120 km/h; 75 mph)
  • Stalling speed: 34 kt (63 km/h; 40 mph)
  • Max rate of climb at S/L: 120 m (394 ft)/min
  • T-O run: 150 m (492 ft)
  • Landing run: 140 m (459 ft)
  • Endurance: 3 h
  • g limits: +4.4/-2.2

PERFORMANCE, UNPOWERED:

  • Best glide ratio: 30
  • Min rate of sink: 0.75 m (2.5 ft)/s

The article appears in the following publication:
Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2004-2005. Jane's Information Group Ltd. 2004. ISBN: 0-7106-2614-2

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