Booster
Role Powered hang glider
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Pegasus Aviation
Status Production completed

The Pegasus Booster is a British powered hang glider that was designed and produced by Pegasus Aviation.[1]

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.[1]

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.[1]

Variants

Pegasus Booster
Version produced by Pegasus Aviation in the late 1990s period.[1]
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.[2]
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.[2]

Specifications (Booster)

Data from Cliche[1]

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)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cliche, Andre: Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide 8th Edition, page C-32. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4
  2. 1 2 Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 75. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
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