Pegasus Booster Explained
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.
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 140NaN0, 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] Notes and References
- Cliche, Andre: Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide 8th Edition, page C-32. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001.
- Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 75. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
