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Quicksilver is a line of single and two-place high wing, single-engine, ultralight aircraft that evolved from weight-shift hang gliders including Bob Lovejoy's High Tailer. The earliest powered version, the Quicksilver C, was created as a self-launching hang glider, designed to allow pilots who lived in the flatlands to be able to self-launch ...
Quicksilver Aircraft is an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft.Founded in 1972 as Eipper Formance and later Eipper Aircraft, [1] the company today claims to be the leading manufacturer of ultralight aircraft in the United States, [2] with the Quicksilver type ultralight being used to train more ultralight pilots than any other type.
Eipper Quicksilver The M-Squared Breese is a large family of high-wing , strut-braced , pusher configuration , tricycle gear , ultralight aircraft produced by M-Squared Aircraft of St. Elmo, Alabama in kit form, for amateur construction .
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]
Developed from the Eipper Quicksilver E, the Wizard was designed before the introduction of the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, but complies with them, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg). The W1 model has a standard empty weight of 167 lb (76 kg).
Ultralight vehicles and their component parts and equipment are not required to meet the airworthiness certification standards specified for aircraft or to have certificates of airworthiness. [ 1 ] Operators of ultralight vehicles are not required to meet any aeronautical knowledge, age, or experience requirements or to have airman or medical ...
ASAP itself provides parts for the legacy Birdman Chinook and Spectrum Beaver aircraft fleets. [8] [9] [20] [21] In 2013 the company was sold to John and Kim Couch, moved to Sealy, Texas and renamed the Aeroplane Manufactory LLC. Initially producing just parts, by May 2016 the company had commenced Chinook Plus 2 kit production. [6] [22]
The Rotax 503 is a 37 kW (50 hp), inline 2-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine, built by BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co. KG of Austria for use in ultralight aircraft. [1] [2] For decades the engine was one of the most popular and reputedly reliable aircraft engines in its class (two-stroke, under 60 horsepower), [3] and it remains widely used and ...