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The Flylight Dragonfly is a British ultralight trike, designed by Ben Ashman and produced by Flylight Airsports of Northamptonshire. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. [1] Development of the Dragonfly started in 2007 with the aircraft entering series production in 2008. [2]
The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes and is noted for its line of retractable gear single seat aircraft, such as the Dragonfly. The company also acts as importer for several lines of aircraft including the Best Off Skyranger and the Aeros line of hang gliders. [2] [3]
The company was one of the leading manufacturers of powered parachutes and also produced some models of ultralight trikes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] One model, the single-seat Buckeye Eagle , could be flown as either a powered parachute or equipped with a hang glider -style wing and flown as an ultralight trike.
The Motorfloater is intended as a simple, light and inexpensive aircraft with an emphasis on ease of handling and enjoyment, rather than speed. It was derived from the more complex Flylight Dragonfly and designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category as well as the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.
The aircraft was developed from the Flylight Dragonfly single place, retractable landing gear trike. The E-Dragon features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit without a cockpit fairing, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single electric motor in pusher configuration.
The Bailey-Moyes Dragonfly is an Australian-American two-seats-in-tandem, high-wing, strut-braced, open cockpit, conventional landing gear-equipped light-sport aircraft. The aircraft has been in production since 1990 and was designed as a special-purpose tug for hang gliders and ultralight sailplanes .
Data from Cliche and Purdy General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Wing area: 500 sq ft (46 m 2) Empty weight: 300 lb (136 kg) Gross weight: 800 lb (363 kg) Fuel capacity: 8 U.S. gallons (30 L; 6.7 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 503 twin cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled aircraft engine, 50 hp (37 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 30 mph (48 km/h, 26 kn) Cruise speed: 26 mph (42 ...
List of motorized trikes is a list of motorized tricycles also called trikes, and sometimes considered cars. There are three typical configurations: motorized bicycle with sidecar; two wheels in the rear, one in the front (aka trike); and two in front, one in the rear (aka reverse trike). However, language and definitions vary.