Jenya Trike first flight

Bearcat · Postby **Bearcat** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:54 am

I happened to be at Petit Airfield yesterday when this Trike was making its first flights
Congrats to Jenya !

Bearcat · Postby **Bearcat** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:56 am

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Bearcat · Postby **Bearcat** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:05 am

Postby **Big-D** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:59 am

Man, that looks nice

Photographs are unreal

Congrats Jenya

gertcoetzee · Postby **gertcoetzee** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:29 am

Tell us more about the trike !

SoloWings is also developing a lightweight trike - similar?

Bearcat · Postby **Bearcat** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:10 pm

John Young · Postby **John Young** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:26 pm

Now this looks like fun.

Any idea of retail price?

Regards
John ZU-sEXY

gertcoetzee · Postby **gertcoetzee** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:30 pm

Specs!
More Detail!
Price!

Slabfish · Postby **Slabfish** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:38 pm

Bearcat you have some serous glass in your bag.

Postby **Big-D** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:53 pm

I am a little confused - How come Jenya, one of the best wing designer/builders in the world got a La Mouette wing on the trike?

Jenya · Postby **Jenya** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:54 pm

This trike has been made for the customer who supplied the wing (La Mouette tandem hang glider wing) and backpacking paragliding system ( Simonini 28 HP engine, wooden prop, about 80 kg of thrust, electric starter). It is very slow, about 40-45 km/h, very easy to fly, landing run is about 5 m. And it is lot of fun to fly it.
Control is very light and comfortable. I is a nice toy to take with on holiday. Empty weight of whole machine is about 55 kg.
Main advantage: it is not a microlight. It is powered hang glider. So you don't need registration with CAA, annual inspection, authority to fly and so on. HG license is enouth to fly it.
We are planning to manufacture such planes if we will have customers. For the next plane we will put our own wing: a bit smaller and faster. Solo wings also working with similar model, but as I know it is much havier plane with bigger engine.
When we designed this particular plane we did not touch the backpacking system. So you can disconnect it (unscrew 4 bolts) and you can fly with your paraglider.
Or you can take off the upper pylon and profile tube and fly with paragliding wing and trike. So this plane is 3-in-1 combination.
We are still working with price of it, will be done this week.

Wargames · Postby **Wargames** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:59 pm

Cant be very fast!! He is not even wearing goggles!

Jenya · Postby **Jenya** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:06 pm

Barry, for your information, there is huge amount of the trikes with single surface wings. Even Solo Wings use to make some of them for crop spraying trikes.
Some pictures attached.

Jenya · Postby **Jenya** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:18 pm

There are some pictures of another powered (by 4 stroke engine) hang glider - Dragofly, manufactured in UK, with retractable undercarriage.