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The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. It also builds aircraft engines, based upon BMW motorcycle engines. [1] [2] The Minimum is a powered hang glider design that was introduced in 1979. This was followed by the Maximum, an ultralight trike, in 1989. The Merlin series ...
AirBorne XT912 Tourer Ultralight trike in Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast. An ultralight trike or paratrike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift. [1] These aircraft have a fabric flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven by a pusher propeller. The pod accommodates either a solo pilot, or a ...
The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 250 lb (113 kg). It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high wing, weight-shift controls, an open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. [1] The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth.
The aircraft can be disassembled by one person in 45 minutes for ground transportation on a car top or for storage. The factory standard powerplant supplied with the Mite-Lite was the 28 hp (21 kW) Rotax 277 single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine. [1] Production of all models ended when the company went out of business in 1998. [1]
The aircraft's single surface wing is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing and covered in Dacron sailcloth. The 11.15 m (36.6 ft) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine ...
Aquilair SA (English: Eagle Air) is a French aircraft manufacturer based in Theizé.The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes. [1]The company originally produced named trike models with specific wing and engine combinations, such as their Aquilair Swing two-seater and Aquilair Kid single-seater.
The HKS 700E is a twin-cylinder, horizontally opposed, four stroke, carburetted aircraft engine, designed for use on ultralight aircraft, powered parachutes and ultralight trikes. The engine is manufactured by HKS, a Japanese company noted for its automotive racing engines. [1] [2] [3]
Polaris Motor srl was an Italian aircraft manufacturer based in Gubbio. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes and was known for its inflatable boat trikes. [1] [2] One of the company's first products, introduced in the early 1980s, was the Skin, a