Aero-Service Puma Explained

The Aero-Service Puma is a Polish ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Aero-Service Jacek Skopiński of Warsaw. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Design and development

The Puma was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with an aluminum sheet wing. Its 9.151NaN1 span wing employs a NACA 4415 airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 4412 at the wing tip. The wing has an area of 11.3m2 and mounts flaps. Standard engines available are the 800NaN0 Rotax 912UL, the 1000NaN0 Rotax 912ULS and the 1150NaN0 Rotax 914 four-stroke powerplants. The cabin width is 1240NaN0.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

The Puma was designed in 2008, with a prototype under construction in September 2011. No first flight of the design has been confirmed.^{[2] [3] [4]}

A fixed gear version, to be called the Raptor, was under preliminary development in 2010.^{[1] [3]}

See also

• Aero-Service Panda

Notes and References

1. Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015–16, page 20. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.
2. Jackson, Paul (ed): Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2012–2013, pages 500–501. Jane's Information Group, 2012.
3. Jackson, Paul (ed): IHS-Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2013–2014, Development and Production, pages 502–504. Jane's Information Group, 2013.
4. Jackson, Paul (ed): IHS-Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2014-2015, Development and Production, pages 520–521. Jane's Information Group, 2014.
5. Web site: Technical data and performance. 17 December 2016. . 2010.