Flex Wing Aircraft

Flex-Wing Facts

Aircraft Types:	Flexwing, also known as weight shift or danglybob
Approximate Cost:	£5,000 - £30,000
Organisations:	BMAA
Typical Speed:	50 to 110 mph
Endurance	2-7 hours
Landing Strip Distance:	Varies but 200M recommended minimum

Engines:	varies 2 and 4 stroke mainly rotax 40 -100 hp
Records	flown round the world, over everest

Weight shift microlights use a hang glider-style wing developed by a chap called Rogallo, below which is suspended a three wheeled pod which carries the engine and 1 or 2 aviators. These aircraft are controlled by pushing against a horizontal bar in roughly the same way as a hang glider pilot flies. Trikes generally have impressive climb rates and are ideal for farm strip and field operation.

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