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LIGHT AIRCRAFT NEWS 2015ENGINE PARTS
ADAMS – Rotax engine parts
provider- Rotax engine parts now available through
Adams Aviation following tens of thousands
Euro investment.
Spares are available for both Rotax 912/914 series
engines.Supporting the range of both certified and
non-certified engines from pioneering engine
manufacturer Rotax, Adams Aviation is now
able to offer same-day despatch of parts from
their warehouse for next-day delivery right
across Europe."We are delighted to be supporting this world-
leading brand", said Stephen Gosling, Adams'
Chief Executive. "Since entering the certified
aviation powerplant market, Rotax has not always
managed to have the appropriate level of sparesavailability and
paperwork
traceability through
their normal supply
chain" he added,
"but providing
manufacturers
certification is
absolutely routine
for us and we firmly
believe that it is our
role to ensure parts
are available off
the shelf".Stephen continued, "It fits perfectly with our
existing support for piston engine manufacturers
Continental and Lycoming, as well as the large
number of aircraft OEM's we count as our
customers. Rotax is a welcome addition to the
many lines we distribute for the growing LSA
market and, with our unique distinction of
having native speakers of many of the European
languages in-house, consolidates our commit-
ment of speaking aviation in your language!"!More information visit –
http://www.adamsaviation.com and http://www.rotax.com
!To v i s i t A d a m s o n l i n e t e c h n i c a l l i b r a r y v i s i t -
http://bit.ly/1BSBiYfNEW ULTRALIGHT AIRCRAFT
It’s a boat. It’s a plane ...
Flying scientists fuse
ultralight with inflatable raftWhat weighs 250kg,
has a wingspan of
11 metres, fly at
speeds of up to
80km hour, lands
on water and could
wind up saving
research teams
hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars?An inflatable raft fastened to an ultralight
aeroplane, of course. Scientists conducting
research in Greenland and other remote areas
are often faced with the problem of immense
distances, difficult terrain and extreme transport
costs. In Greenland, chartering a helicopter costs
upwards of 30,000 kroner ($4,500) per hour.
Drones have been mulled as an inexpensive
solution, but when scientists need to have boots
on the ground or their hands in the water, they
are inadequate.
The idea to fuse the lightweight flying and floating
equipment was brainchild of Jeppe Møhl, a pilot
and veteran participant of the Aktiv expedition, a
seafaring research voyage. Møhl’s contraption
has since been refined and was successfully
used in 2014 to transport scientists to inlandglaciers and lakes. Speaking with PolarFronten,
a Danish polar science magazine, Kurt H Kjær,
of the Centre for Geogenetics at the University
of Copenhagen, explained that he had been
impressed by the mobility that hyrbidity
provided.“We needed to drill 32 cores and got most of
them with the flying raft. If we had done it any
other way it would have taken us a lot longer.”
The flying raft has a carrying capacity of 450kg
and room for a crew of two. It can fly a distance
of about 150km on a single tank of fuel.“The two of
us flew out,
landed on
the lake,
found the
site we
needed to
drill,
anchored
and drilled. A trip took between three and four
hours and we were able cover an enormous
area,” Kjær said.During the expedition, the flying raft was also
used to transport heavy equipment. Like drones,
the flying raft is suitable for reconnaissance and
aerial photography, say its inventors. Unlike its
unmanned cousins, however, if the flying fraft
capsizes (which it did on one occasion) its crew
gets wet. But neither can they feel the wind in
their helmet.FEATURED AIRCRAFT
e-Go aeroplanes
Into 2015The 2015 ego aeroplanes team.Flight testing the e-Go- RaeS lecture February 17th:
Our chief test pilot,
Keith Dennison, gave an
excellent lecture on flight
testing the e-Go at the
Royal Aeronautical Society
on February 17th.
Sales update:We have been
delighted to wel-
come a number of
new customers to
the e-Go family.
Tw o o f o u r
customers joined
Keith Dennison after
a test flight day on
February 12th, and although the weather as
rather cold, to say the least, the smiles showed
how much William Burnett and Vince Hagedornappreciated seeing Keith’s mini-display. Keith
was later quoted as saying that flying the e-Go
“is a real hoot”...Technical update:(L to R) Paul Jackson, MD of Forward Composites, with
Adrian Hillcoat. (R) Alasdair MacBean inspecting one of the
carbon wing mould tools that he designed, that have been
manufactured by Forward Composites.Despite the winter weather, we have managed to
complete a useful number of test flights in our
hard-working prototype aircraft, G-EFUN, which
have helped us to further refine the aircraft’s
handling. In particular, we have finalised the
canard/elevator configuration to give us the
correct control feel and performance.Our Kanardia NESIS III EFIS has had its produc-
tion software release applied, and this was tested
in mid-February with good results. We have also
been tracking G-EFUN online from its ADS-B
transponder output, which is a capability of the
Trig unit fitted as standard.Our low-temperature curing oven is now
undergoing commissioning at Main Hall Farm,
coming online at a time when we have a number
of composite parts now ready for manufacture.
Much emphasis over the last few months has
been placed on creating high-quality tooling to
allow us to manufacture all of the aircraft parts
to a very high standard.The flying raft, in action during a recent
artic expedition.Adams Aviation carries a compre-
hensive range of Rotax spares.The flying raft, in action over
Greenland this summer.William Burnett, Keith Dennison
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