The design was intended to be a simplified helicopter. Constructed by two brothers with no prior aeronautical experience or skills it employed a unique coaxial, counter-rotating, fixed pitch rotor system with no collective control, but employed a rudder. To account for the fact that the aircraft could not autorotate after a power failure, it was equipped with two engines and could hover on either one. A ballistic parachute was optional.
The Eagle's Perch was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules. The aircraft had a standard empty weight of 2400NaN0. It featured two coaxial main rotors, a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield, skid-type landing gear and two twin-cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 500NaN0 Hirth 2706 engines.
The aircraft fuselage was made from welded steel tubing. Its 13.51NaN1 diameter two-bladed rotors were of a fixed pitch design. The aircraft had an empty weight of 4800NaN0 and a gross weight of 8000NaN0, giving a useful load of 3200NaN0. With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage was 2600NaN0.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit to be 240 hours.
The design was later developed into the Phoenix Skyblazer.
The design won Grand Champion Helicopter at the Popular Rotorcraft Association convention in 1994.
By July 2014 no examples remained registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and it is unlikely any exist today, although one, the prototype, had been registered at one time.[2]