A single-seat ultralight pressure jet helicopter.
LSA/UL
B W Rotor Co Inc
USA
Offered plans to construct the Sky Cycle single-seat ultralight pressure jet helicopter.
Butterfly Banty
A folding wing, conventional wood and fabric design, with folding wings.
Engine: Rotax 277, 28 hp.
HP range: 20-36.
Wing span: 32 ft / 9.75 m
Wing area: 128 sq.ft / 11.90 sq.m
Height: 6 ft.
Length: 18.85 ft.
Weight empty: 237 lb / 107 kg
Gross: 500 lbs / 226 kg
Fuel consumption: 7.4 lt/hr
Speed max: 60 mph / 88 kph
Cruise: 50 mph / 80 kph
Range: 90 sm.
Stall: 27 mph / 40 kph
ROC: 400 fpm / 2.25 m/s
Take-off dist: 220 ft.
Landing dist: 200 ft.
Service ceiling: 9,000 ft.
Fuel cap: 5 USG / 19 lt
Seats: 1.
Landing gear: tail wheel.
Plan price (1998): US$25
Butterfly Aero
1995-8: 1333 Garrard Creek Rd., Oakville, WA 98568, USA.
UL builder
Buse’Air 150
Built from laminates, the Buse’Air meets the microlight definition. In 1997 the tailplane was improved for stability.
Empty weight: 240 kg
Wing span: 10.4 m
Wing area: 16 sq.m
Fuel capacity: 70 lt
Engine: Rotax 912, 80 hp
MAUW: 450 kg
Seats: 2
Max speed: 195 kph
Cruise speed: 150 kph
Minimum speed: 60 kph
Climb rate: 6 m/s
Fuel consumption: 10 lt/hr
Price (1998): 245 000 Fttc
Bul Aéro Baroudeur
A tube and fabrc microlight.
When Mudry was bought out the Baroudeur became available through Bul Aero.
Empty weight: 168 kg
Wing span: 10.7 m
Wing area: 16.5 sq.m
Fuel capacity: 50 lt
Engine: Rotax 582, 64 hp
MAUW: 420 kg
Seats: 2
Max speed: 125 kph
Cruise speed: 90 kph
Minimum speed: 55 kph
Climb rate: 4 m/s
Fuel consumption: 16 lt/hr
Price (1998): 110.000 Fttc
Bul Aéro
Mudry had been bought out by the group which owns Robin Aircraft and as a result the Bardouder became available through Bul Aéro (1998).
1998:
Aerodrome de Dijons-Darois
F-21121 Darois
France
LSA builder
BTA Top-Air Sro
Czech
Company formerly known as Swing spol sro, marketing the two-seat Tango (formerly Swing) light composites-built monoplane.
Brutsche Freedom 28/40
The Freedom 28 won Grand Champion Reserve at Oshkosh 1986 and was still available in 1996.
The airframe is all aluminium sheet metal with a steel undercarriage.
Top speed: 86 mph
Cruise: 76 mph
Stall: 27 mph
Range: 138 sm
Rate of climb: 950 fpm
Takeoff dist: 150 ft
Landing dist: 150 ft
Service ceiling: 20,500 ft
Engine: Hirth 2702, 40 hp
HP range: 28-42 hp
Fuel capacity: 5 USG
Empty weight: 310 lb
Gross weight: 560 lb
Height: 6 ft
Length: 18 ft
Wing span: 28 ft
Wing area: 112 sq.ft
Seats: 1
Landing gear: tailwheel
Brutsche Aircraft
1996: 475 E. 900 S., MS 67, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, USA
Offers plans and partial kits to construct Freedom 40 single-seat cabin monoplane, and kits to construct Freedom Sport Utility four-seat STOL utility monoplane.
All Aero 