Manufacturer Mini-Fly GmbH | ||
The Mini-Fly Set is a German powered hang glider that was designed and produced by Mini-Fly GmbH of Kirchardt. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
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Design and development
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.
The aircraft uses a standard hang glider wing, made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double 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 two-stroke, single cylinder Sachs 166 industrial engine of 14 hp (10 kW) driving a 3.4:1 reduction drive. The engine is mounted at the front of, and below the wing on a separate tube running parallel to the wing's keel tube. The 10 litres (2.2 imp gal; 2.6 US gal) fuel tank is mounted above and behind the engine. The two-bladed, wooden, fixed pitch propeller with a 134 cm (53 in) diameter is located at the rear of the wing's keel tube and is protected from ground contact by a tail wheel mounted on a long aluminum tube. The propeller is driven by a long extension shaft.
The pilot may take off in the prone position or from a standing start as in a conventional hang glider hill launch.
Specifications
Data from Bertrand
General characteristics