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The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category and the US light-sport aircraft rules. [2] [3] It features a strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, retractable wheeled tricycle landing gear and dual floats and a single engine in pusher configuration.
Many of the early ultralights used a "weight shift" method of control, requiring the pilot to push a control bar to shift the center of gravity of the aircraft. The Weedhopper differed from most other ultralights of the period in that it has a control stick which moves the rudder and elevator, giving it two axis control in pitch and yaw.
The Jet Star was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category as well as the US light-sport aircraft category. It features a cable-braced or strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 363 kg (800 lb). In its single-seat configuration and when equipped with a lightweight engine, it complies with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg).
Its standard 9.60 m (31.5 ft) span Aeros Fox 16T wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Powerplants available are the single cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke , 22 hp (16 kW) Bailey V4 200 engine and the single cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke , 25 hp (19 kW) Simonini Mini 2 engine.
Data from Cliche and Purdy General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 2.1 m (7 ft) Wingspan: 10 m (33 ft) Wing area: 15.2 m 2 (164 sq ft) Empty weight: 136 kg (300 lb) Gross weight: 363 kg (800 lb) Fuel capacity: 53 litres (12 imp gal; 14 US gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 503 twin cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled aircraft engine Performance Maximum speed: 130 km/h (80 mph ...
With the BioniX wing it has a 9.85 m (32.3 ft) span that is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant options include the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke , dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine and the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke , dual-ignition ...
The 10.06 m (33.0 ft) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost, uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar and has a wing area of 17.4 m 2 (187 sq ft). The powerplant is a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke , dual-ignition 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 engine.