AQUILA

foot launch-able glider

Desire of flight simplicity and independence offered by paragliding or hang gliding wings has brought to development of some more or less successful foot launch-able and land-able gliders projects. Some of worth mentioning are: Aeriane Swift, Archaeopteryx, XXTherm. Nowadays this kind of gliders are not fiction anymore.

Aquila is currently design idea that is striving over the same desire and improvements of performance and technical solutions with this kind of aircrafts.

Goals:

  • Clasification: FAI Class 2 Hang Glider, Microlift Glider
  • Takeoff: footlauch, wheels - towing
  • Landing: foot landing or wheels

Predetermined Aircraft data:

  • Span: 13.5 m
  • Length: 5.5 m
  • Height: 1.7 m
  • Wing surface: 12.8 m2
  • Weight: 60 kg
  • Pilot weight: 60 - 100 kg
  • Takeoff weight: 120 - 160 kg

Performance

  • Minimum speed: 30 km/h
  • Maximum speed: 130 km/h
  • Minimal sink: 0.5 m/s
  • LD: 1:30

Contact

For more information you can contact us over email.

Matija Žumer, info@flylite.si / matija.zumer@gmail.com +386 31 668 455