Pegasus Booster
The Pegasus Booster is a British powered hang glider that was designed and produced by Pegasus Aviation.[1]
Design and development
The booster was sold either as an engine package or as a powered hang gliding harness, to which the pilot could add any standard hang glider wing. When ready to fly the aircraft features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, single-place accommodation, foot-launching and landing and a single engine in pusher configuration.[1]
The aircraft uses a standard hang glider wing, made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar. The engine is a lightweight, two-stroke, single cylinder Radne Raket 120 of 14 hp (10 kW), which is mounted at the rear of the pilot's prone position harness pod, with the propeller at the very rear.[1]
Specifications (Booster)
Data from Cliche[1]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Empty weight: 42 lb (19 kg) powered harness only, plus wing weight
- Fuel capacity: 1.3 U.S. gallons (4.9 L; 1.1 imp gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Radne Raket 120 single cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled, aircraft engine, 14 hp (10 kW)
Performance
- Cruise speed: 25 mph (22 kn; 40 km/h)
- Stall speed: 14 mph (12 kn; 23 km/h) depending on the wing selected
- Rate of climb: 400 ft/min (2.0 m/s)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cliche, Andre: Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide 8th Edition, page C-32. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4
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