DTA Alizés explained

The DTA Alizés (English: [[Trade wind|Tradewind]]) is a French ultralight trike that was designed by Michel Guaiguant and is produced by DTA sarl of Montélimar.[1] [2]

The aircraft is a joint venture with wing manufacturer La société Ellipse who market it as the Ellipse Alizé. It is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development

The Alizés was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0. The aircraft also fits the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The Alizés features a cable-braced Ellipse Fuji hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit with no cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear without wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The Alizés is a very simple nanotrike and is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 101NaN1 span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a single cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, 220NaN0 Zenoah G25 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 720NaN0 and a gross weight of 1700NaN0, giving a useful load of 980NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 910NaN0.

Due to its single seat configuration and "niche appeal", the aircraft has not sold in large numbers.

Variants

Ellipse Alizé
  • Model sold in the early 2010s by wing manufacturer La société Ellipse, with either the Fuji or Ellipse Titan CX strut-braced wing and powered by a Cors-Air 240NaN0 engine.
    Ellipse Fuji 16 Alizé
  • Model sold in the mid-2010s by wing manufacturer La société Ellipse, with the Fuji 16 cable-braced wing and powered by a Cors-Air 240NaN0 engine. Reviewer Dimitri Delemarle described it as "a versatile wing, easy for a new pilot to handle yet rewarding to fly".[3]
    Ellipse Titan CX Alizé
  • Model sold in the mid-2010s by wing manufacturer La société Ellipse, with the Ellipse Titan CX strut-braced wing and powered by a Cors-Air 240NaN0 engine, or starting in 2014, a Swissauto motor.[3]

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 98. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
    2. Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 211. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
    3. Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, pages 229-230. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

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