1982: Kolb Company Inc, RD 3, Box 38, Phoenixvil¬le, Pennsylvania 19460, USA.
1995-8: R.D.3, Box 38, Phoenixville, PA
The New Kolb Aircraft Co. offers 3 excellent designs to cover a wide spectrum of flying missions. The Firefly, was designed in 1995 and more than 500 units were sold worldwide. The Mark 3 Xtra was designed in 1999 by aircraft designer Barnaby Wainfan and more than 100 were sold in the Unites States. The Kolb Flyer SS was granted the S-LSA certificate and sold since July 2008.
The König SD 570 is a four-cylinder, two-stroke, single ignition radial aircraft engine designed for powered paragliders, powered parachutes and single place ultralight trikes. The SD 570 is an unusual four-cylinder radial engine that is very compact and light weight at only 19 kg (42 lb). The engine features single capacitor discharge ignition, a single Bing 49 diaphragm-type carburetor and rotary valve induction. It was offered without a reduction drive, although when Zanzottera built it an optional 1.75:1 cog belt reduction drive was available. Starting is electric starter only and a recoil starter is not an option.
Earlier versions produced 28 hp (21 kW) at 4200 rpm with a slide-type carburetor and reduction drive. The later version is rated at 24 hp (18 kW) at 4200 rpm. Time between overhaul is rated as 300 hours.
The SD 570 shares the same bore and stroke as the smaller three-cylinder König SC 430 radial engine.
The engine was originally designed and produced by Dieter König of Berlin, Germany. The design was sold to Zanzottera Technologies of Italy and then sold again, along with the rest of Zanzottera’s two-stroke ultralight aircraft engine line to Compact Radial Engines of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Variants:
Zanzottera SD 570
Four-cylinder, two-stroke, single-ignition, radial aircraft engine producing 28 hp (21 kW) at 4200 rpm. Equipped with a slide-type carburetor and an optional reduction drive.
Compact Radial Engines SD 570
Four-cylinder, two-stroke, single-ignition, radial aircraft engine producing 24 hp (18 kW) at 4200 rpm. Equipped with a Bing 49 diaphragm-type carburetor and no reduction drive.
Applications:
MFI BA-12 Sländan
Specifications:
SD 570
Type: Four-cylinder, radial two-stroke aircraft engine
Bore: 66 mm (2.60 in)
Stroke: 42 mm (1.65 in)
Displacement: 579 cc (35.33 cu in)
Dry weight: 19 kg (42 lb)
Valvetrain: rotary valve induction
Oil system: premixed oil and fuel
Cooling system: air-cooled
Reduction gear: none
Power output: 24 hp (18 kW) at 4200 rpm
1998:
Friedrich-Olbricht-Damm 72
D-13627 Berlin
Germany
Konig engines by 2012 were sold and supported by ‘Compact Radial Engines’ of BC Canada.
The Lithuania Konchus Antis is a single-seat monoplane with cable braced wing plus canard. 25 hp pusher engine. Tricycle landing gear. Length 20’, wing span 31.3’, wing area 170 sq/ft. with canard. Empty weight 220 lbs. Gross weight 400 lbs. Top speed 38 mph and stall speed 26 mph. Wing and tail structure from tubing and fabric. Fuselage is tubing.
Classed as a microlight under the FAI definition, the all carbonfibre Ultima two seater was at the point of being marketed in 1998.
Koenig Engineering offers kit to construct AK.09 Faucon two-seat composites monoplane, also available from Germany as Junkers Ultima.
Engine: Rotax 912, 80 hp
Wing span: 8.20 m
Wing area: 10.5 sq.m
MAUW: 450 kg
Empty weight: 250 kg
Fuel capacity: 90 lt
Max speed: 260 kph
Cruise speed: 230 kph
Minimum speed: 65 kph
Climb rate: 6.2 m/s
Seats: 2
Fuel consumption: 12 lt/hr
Price (1998): 98 000 DM
Kit price (1998): 52 270 DM
France
Offers kit to construct AK.09 Faucon light sport two-seat composites monoplane, also available from Germany as Junkers Ultima.
Designed by Vernon Payne in the USA in 1933, the Payne Knight Twister is a single seat biplane with a tube construction fuselage and wooden wings. All fabric covered.
Engine: Lycoming, 108 hp.
HP range: 85-160.
Span upper: 15.00 ft
Span lower: 13 ft
Wing area: 55 sq.ft.
Length: 13.5 ft.
Height: 5 ft.
Weight empty: 517 lbs.
Gross: 865 lbs.
Fuel cap: 20 USG.
Speed max: 180 mph.
Cruise: 165 mph.
Range: 610 sm.
Stall: 55 mph.
ROC: 1800 fpm.
Take-off dist: 400 ft.
Landing dist: 800 ft.
Seats: 1-2.
Landing gear: tail wheel.
By 1995 was marketed by Steen Aero Lab.
LSA builder
Bob Kinney, designer/builder of the HRH, considers himself a practical “electro-mechanical applicationist.” Bob was born in a small town in Connecticut where, as a young boy, he and some friends would visit a nearby factory that was manufacturing curious rotary-wing machines. Looking back, Bob is convinced that the man with the distinctive Russian accent that continually chased him and his friends away from that factory was Igor Sikorsky—father of the modern helicopter—and only later understood that those curious machines were helicopters.
2002: 221 Fordney Rd, Lancaster, PA 17601, USA.
The VL-3 is an ultralight, single-engine, low-wing aeroplane of classical design with a bow-type retractable or fixed landing-gear and two side-by-side seats. The plane has been certified according to regulation UL-2 of the Amateur Aeronautical Association of the Czech Republic for maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 450 kg.
Harmonious aerodynamic shape and excellent flying performance make the aeroplane suitable for touring or recreational flying.
The VL 3 is being certified in UL catagory for MTOW 450 kg and for MTOW 560 kg according JAR – VLA.
The KLN VL3 airplane is manufactured by Karel Klenor – KLN, Choceň, Czech Republic.
Stall: 35 kt / 40 mph / 65 kmh
Cruise: 119 kt / 137 mph / 220 kmh
VNE: 162 kt / 186 mph / 300 kmh
Empty Weight: 275 kg / 606 lbs
MTOW Weight: 450 kg / 992 lbs
Climb Ratio: 1200 ft/min / 6 m/s
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