Single seat single engined flex wing aircraft with weight shift control. Rogallo wing with keel pocket. Pilot suspended below wing in trike unit, using bar to control pitch and yaw/roll by altering relative positions of trike unit and wing. Wing braced from above by kingpost and cables, from below by cables; rigid cross tube construction with single-surface; tapered glass fibre ribs. Undercarriage has three wheels in tricycle formation; no suspension on any wheels. Push right go left nosewheel steering independent from yaw control. Optional brakes on all wheels. Aluminium tube trike unit, with optional pod. Engine mounted below wing driving pusher propeller. Aluminium tubing to British HT30TF specification, anodised. Howe & Bainbridge Dacron sailcloth. Aircraft quality fasteners.
Chargus is known in the British hang gliding world and was one of the first such manufacturers to see the potential of power. The Robin engined T250, usually flown with the Vortex 120 wing, is the company’s only single seat trike unit. The company concentrated on getting the maximum thrust out of the single cylinder engine, by using a toothed-belt reduction drive and a three bladed propeller. The Vortex wing is a single-surface design.
Engine: Robin EC25PS, 22 hp at 6000 rpm.
Propeller: three blade.
Toothed belt reduction, ratio 2.0/1.
Wing span 32.7 ft, 9.97 m.
Length overall 13.0ft, 3.96m.
Chord at root 11.0 ft, 3.35 m.
Total wing area 204 sq.ft, 19.0 sq.m.
Wing aspect ratio 5.2/1.
Wheel track 4.3 ft, 1.31 m.
Wheelbase 4.3 ft, 1.31 m.
Nosewheel diameter overall 12 inch, 30 cm.
Main wheels diameter overall 12 inch, 30cm.
Power per unit area 0.11 hp/sq.ft, 1.2 hp/sq.m.
Fuel capacity 3.0 US gal, 2.5 Imp gal, 11.4 litre.
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