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With the originally specified 82 lb (37 kg) Briggs & Stratton 401417, four-stroke, 656 cc, 16 hp (12 kW) lawn mower powerplant the aircraft has an empty weight of 230 lb (104 kg). The engine burns only 1 US gal (4 L) per hour giving an endurance of 5 hours on the specified 5 US gal (19 L) of fuel, hence the aircraft's name.
Free Bird Innovations, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and formed in about 2003. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft in the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category.
The aircraft was designed long before the adoption of the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg), but nonetheless complies with them. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 150 lb (68 kg) and is billed as the "World's Tiniest Homebuilt Helicopter" by the plans supplier.
Beaujon Aircraft publishes the plans along with six other designs in book form under the name How to Build Ultralights. [ 1 ] The Mach .07 was specifically designed to comply with the United States ultralight category and its FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum 254 lb (115 kg) empty weight.
Sorrell Aviation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Tenino, Washington, founded by Hobart C. Sorrell and sons John, Mark and Tim in about 1958. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction including for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.
The A/W 95 was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules, but if built lightly enough may qualify as an ultralight aircraft, under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, with that category's maximum empty weight restriction of 254 lb (115 kg). The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 272 lb (123 kg).
The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 175 lb (79 kg). It features a single main rotor , a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield and skid landing gear . Power is supplied by two G8-2-20 rotor tip jets that run on propane , consuming 12 U.S. gallons (45 L; 10.0 imp gal) per hour and producing 47 lb (21 kg) of thrust each.
Founded by Herbert Beaujon in the 1970s, Beaujon Aircraft has published the designs for eight ultralight aircraft and marketed seven of them in book form under the name How to Build Ultralights. The book and its plans have received praise from reviewers.