Top speed 130 km/h | Wingspan 9.5 m | |
The Flight Team Spider is a German ultralight trike, designed by Flight Team UG & Company AG of Ippesheim and produced under subcontract by Pipistrel of Ajdovščina, Slovenia. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
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In production since 1992, several hundred Spiders have been delivered to customers.
Design and development
The Spider was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 450 kg (992 lb). The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 450 kg (992 lb). It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
In its Spider XL version the aircraft is made from TIG-welded, powder coated steel tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 9.5 m (31.2 ft) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The main landing gear is suspended by fibreglass gear legs. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine.
The aircraft has an empty weight of 180 kg (397 lb) and a gross weight of 450 kg (992 lb), giving a useful load of 270 kg (595 lb). With full fuel of 42 litres (9.2 imp gal; 11 US gal) the payload is 240 kg (529 lb).
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including those built by Air Creation. Flight Team is the Air Creation importer for Germany.
Variants
Specifications (Spider XL)
Data from Bayerl
General characteristics
Performance