The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 2540NaN0. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 2500NaN0.
The Warp 1-A features a cantilever mid-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, a boom-mounted T-tail and a single pod-mounted engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from composites. Its 251NaN1 span wing is made with an aluminum spar and S-glass vinyl-ester resin, is detachable for ground transport or storage and has a wing area of 87.5square feet. The standard engine used is the 500NaN0 Rotax 503 two-stroke powerplant.[2]
The Warp 1-A has a typical empty weight of 250lb and a gross weight of 575lb, giving a useful load of 325lb. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is 295lb.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a 500NaN0 engine is 1500NaN0.
The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 100 hours.
In March 2014 one example, the prototype, was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration as an Experimental - Amateur-built, although its registration expired in June 2013.[3]