CMV Eclair V

Manufactured by Fabrications Aeronoutiques ATESMA company (FAA). All hardware and parts are aviation certified. Assembly time 10 min. Car toppable.

Engine: 50hp Fuji Robin EC44PM with Mecoworms 2.5/1 reduction.
Wing area: 215 sq.ft.
Empty weight (wing plus trike unit) 251 lb.
Max payload 397 lb.
Max level speed at gross weight 49 mph.
Max cruising speed 43 mph.
Stall speed 19 mph.
Seats: 2.

Chargus Titan 38

Two seat side-by-side single engined flex wing aircraft with weight shift control. Wing has floating cross tube construction with single surface; mixture of preformed and flexible ribs. Pilot suspended below wing in trike unit, using bar to control pitch and yaw/roll by altering relative positions of trike unit and wing. 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.
The Titan 38 is designed largely for tuition, it has a side by side seating position, with the pilot and passenger sitting cross armed so that each has a broad grip of the bar. The bar itself doubles as a full width twist grip throttle.
The hang point incorporates a Rose joint allowing the pilot to yaw the trike unit relative to the wing. Excessive yaw movement is prevented by four bungee shock cords, running fore and aft from each end of the trapeze to the trike unit. While this yaw provision could be useful when attempting a. cross wind landing, for example, it is not universally liked by those who have flown the machine.
The driven wheel of the reduction drive incorporates rubber bushes to absorb torsion¬al vibration; in other respects the power unit is a conventional 440 Robin and is offered with optional electric start. Also optional is an extra fuel tank, which can be located behind the seat. The standard vertical cylindrical tanks, one attached to each pole, hold only 1.2 US gal (1.0 Imp gal, 4.5 litre) each.

Wing span 38.0 ft, 11.58 m.
Nose angle 125 deg.
Total wing area 250 sq.ft, 23.2 sq.m.
Wing aspect ratio 5.8/1.
Nosewheel diameter overall 16 inch, 41 cm.
Main wheels diameter overall 16 inch, 41 cm.
Engine: Robin EC44, 40 hp at 5900 rpm.
Toothed belt reduction, ratio 2.0/1.
Power per unit area 0.16hp/sq.ft, 1.7 hp/sq.m.
Total capacity 2.4 US gal, 2.0 Imp gal, 9.1 litre.
Empty weight 2801b, 127kg.
Max take off weight 616 lb, 279kg.
Payload 3361b, 152kg.
Max wing loading 2.46 lb/sq.ft, 12.0kg/sq.m.
Max power loading 15.4 lb/hp, 7.0kg/hp.
Max level speed >42mph, >68kph.
Never exceed speed 45mph, 72kph.
Cruising speed 38mph, 61 kph.
Stalling speed 25 mph, 40 kph.
Max climb rate at sea level 230ft/min, 1.2m/s.
Range at average cruising speed 30 mile, 49km.

Chargus T250/Vortex 120

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.

Centrair / Societe Nouvelle Centrair

Produce gliders in Alliance, Marianne, 101 Club and Pegase series. In 1980s developed Parafan powered parawing microlight, and was developing Sup’aero as single-seat canard monoplane powered by two Microturbo jet engines and Sup’Air as six-seat composites lightplane with tail-mounted propeller for piston engine.

2008:
Societe Nouvelle Centrair
B.P. 44 Aerodrome
Le Blanc 36300
France

Buckeye Falcon

Manufactured in the US, the Dream Machine first flew in 1991. Options included the Rotax 503, instruments and instrument pod. The parachute is 1.1 oz ripstop nylon. The 1998 kit included the engine and propeller for US$11,424.

Engine: Rotax 582, 66 hp.
Speed max: 26 mph.
Cruise: 26 mph.
ROC: 1100 fpm.
Take-off dist: 100 ft.
Landing dist: 100 ft.
Service ceiling: 10,500 ft.
Fuel cap: 5 USG.
Weight empty: 245 lbs.
Gross: 595 lbs.
Height: 6.5 ft.
Length: 8.92 ft.
Wing span: 36.08 ft.
Wing area: 450 sq.ft.
Seats: 1.
Landing gear: nose wheel.