Pegasus Booster

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.

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.

Variants

Pegasus Booster

Version produced by Pegasus Aviation in the late 1990s period.

Solar Wings Booster Mk I

Version produced by Solar Wings in the early-2000s period. Was noted as being compatible with the Woody Valley harness that was popular in Europe in that time period.

Solar Wings Booster Mk II

Version produced by Solar Wings in the mid-2000s period. Was noted as being not compatible with the Woody Valley harness that was popular in Europe in that time period.

Specifications (Booster)

Data from Cliche

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 (40 km/h; 22 kn)

Stall speed: 14 mph (23 km/h; 12 kn) depending on the wing selected

Rate of climb: 400 ft/min (2.0 m/s)