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Challenger I (Challenger UL) Single seat, 31.5 ft (9.6 m) wingspan gives lower stall speed. Can be fitted with a variety of engines. Qualifies as a US "Experimental - Amateur-Built", Light sport aircraft or with the 22 hp (16 kW) Hirth F-33 engine as a US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicle, 800 reported completed and flown by the fall of 2011.
The Excalibur was designed as "clone" [1] of the Quad City Challenger II aircraft. The company took the basic Challenger design and incorporated many changes, including mounting the engine upright allowing larger propellers and the Rotax gearbox to be mounted, lengthening the tailboom and enlarging the tail vertical surface to increase stability, shortening the ailerons and replacing control ...
Jack McCornack flying the Pterodactyl Ascender II in a zoom An Ascender II+2 two seater. The powerplant is a Rotax 503 50 hp (37 kW) two stroke. Pterodactyl Ascender II+2 Fly camping with a DFE Ascender III-C two seater. Newly completed DFE Ascender III-C prior to first flight, 2004 DFE Ascender III-C in front of its hangar.
Quad City Challenger I The Rotax 447 is a 41.6 hp (31 kW), inline 2-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine, built by BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co. KG of Austria for use in ultralight aircraft . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Rotax 582 is based upon the earlier Rotax 532 engine design and was designed for ultralight aircraft. [4] [5] The 582 increased the bore from the 532 engine's 72 to 76 mm (2.8 to 3.0 in). This increased the displacement from 521.2 cc (31.81 cu in) to 580.7 cc (35.44 cu in), an increase of 11%. The increased displacement had the effect of ...
The basic ultralight Ultraflight Lazair is the most produced Canadian-designed aircraft of any category. Blue Yonder Merlin EZ Canadian-designed and built advanced ultralight airplane A common advanced ultralight seen in Canada: Quad City Challenger II Jabiru Calypso 3300 advanced ultralight aircraft on amphibious floats at the Canadian Aviation Expo Fly camping at a remote aerodrome with a ...
Taylor Bird 1980 2 seat homebuilt, unk no. built [21] Strojnik S-2 1980 motorglider 1 seater, 8+ built. Aérostructure Lutin 80 1983 1 seat ultralight motorglider, 2 built [22] Birdman Chinook 1982 ultralight homebuilt, 1100+ built; Alpha J-5 Marco 1983 1 seat ultralight motorglider, unk no. built [20] Quad City Challenger 1983 2 seat ...
Regulation of ultralight aircraft in the United States is covered by the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 14 (Federal Aviation Regulations), Part 103, or 14 CFR Part 103, which defines an "ultralight" as a vehicle that: has only one seat [1] [2] Is used only for recreational or sport flying [1] [2]