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The Cyclone AX2000 is an aluminium tube framed three axis microlight with flying surfaces covered with a polyester fabric with outer PVF lamination (URLAM). The whole aircraft is built around a long, high aluminium keel boom, which bears the engine, wings and empennage .
Types past and present include microlights (Ultralight or ULM), including the Calypso, two-seat trainers and recreational aircraft (J120/J160/ J170/J230) and four-seat aircraft (J400/J430/J450). The aircraft are built largely of composite materials and are conventional high-wing monoplanes with typically tricycle undercarriage .
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailerons , elevator and rudder , calling the former "microlight" and the latter "ultralight".
Spartan Microlights is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Astoria, New York. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes , ultralight trikes and powered paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft in the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and kits for the US Experimental - Amateur-built category.
[3] Ultralight vehicles cannot be flown over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons. [1] Weight allowances can be made for amphibious landing gear, and devices deployed in an emergency, which includes ballistic parachute systems. [1]
The aircraft are also known by other names, including 2-axis microlights, flex-wing trikes, microlight trikes, deltatrikes [2] or motorized deltaplanes. [3] In the United States, they are formally recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as weight-shift-control aircraft .
The normal powerplant was a single König SD 570 two-stroke, four-cylinder air-cooled radial engine rated at 32 horsepower (24 kW) and driving a three-bladed propeller. [1] [2] The first prototype, fitted with a V-tail, made its maiden flight in late 1983. A modified second prototype, with a conventional tail flew in October 1986. [1] [2]
8Q [3] 8Q-AAA to 8Q-ZZZ Mali: TZ [3] TZ-AAA to TZ-ZZZ Malta: 9H [3] 9H-AAA to 9H-ZZZZZ 9H-111 to 9H-99999 a group of three to five characters, which characters can be a combination of capital letters in Romancharacter and/or Arabic numbers Marshall Islands: V7 [3] V7-0001 to V7-9999 Martinique: F-O [15] Outside mainland France is F-OAAA to F ...