This gave a cruising speed of about 25 mph, with fuel for about 2 hours and 15 minutes flying. Gabriel built a Skyhook Safari single surface wing powered by a 123cc McCullough 101 engine. The flight was to be sponsored by Bluebird toffees. In 1979 Gabriel was asked by Brian Milton to develop a power hang glider for a proposed flight from London to Paris. He set up Skyhook, and soon began to look at developing of powered hang gliders. At the time he was engineering director of Frastans, a company that produced machines for making wallpaper, and so had the skills and finance to investigate designing and building his own hang gliders when his request for a set of plans for an established design was met with a refusal. Len Gabriel was born in 1926 and became interested in hang gliding in 1972 after reading an article in the children's magazine 'Look and Learn' about the sport in America. It was designed by len Gabriel and used by him in an attempt to fly from London to Paris. This is a Skyhook Safari powered hang glider. Important: Owners are advised to regularly check the Airborne website for updated and new airworthiness directives.Skyhook Safari powered hang glider built by Len Gabriels and used by him for a 1979 attempt to fly from London to Paris, sponsored by Blue Bird Toffees. The finish, handling and performance say it all.
The Magni Gyro is the ultimate sport gyro. The Hawk 4, ArrowHawk, heliplane and gyroliner by GBA Groen Brothers Aviation are an insight into the future and potential of commercial gyroplane design. ASRA the Australian Sports Rotocraft Association run the register for Australian Rotorcraft. Othe designs include Xenon, MT0 Sport, Calidus, Cavalon, ELA are good examples of modern day gyro's. Magni is a world leader in design and manufacture of the current day gyrocopter. Vittorio Magni's passion and knowledge has helped in shaping new generation high tech gyro's into what they are today. The gyrocopter, gyroplane, autogyro and rotorcraft have developed into a safe and reliable aircraft.
Gyrocopter's, gyroplane's, auto gyro's and rotorcraft are easy and fun to to fly. In the USA they are flown in the Special Light Sport Aircraft or Experimental Light Sport Aircraft category.Īirborne Light Sport and Experimental Light Sport Aircraft These approvals allow Airborne to be flown in msany other countries which include the UAE, South America and India. The Airborne factory is a CASA approved facility.Īirborne microlights are certified or approved for many countries including, Australia, UK, France, Israel, Germany and the USA. Other test requirements include landing load, deceleration and weld testing. That's a massive 2500kgs+ or 5511+ pounds in load applied to the wing for the positive test. Our design's are tested to 6g positive and 3g negative. Our aircraft are certified to Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requirements. We use quality Rotax aircraft engines in all of our current designs.įeel confident when you fly, choose a certified aircraft.
The new rugged Outback, which can be optioned up with the tundra undercarriage, electric start and oil injection, Or the XT-912. Because Airborne microlights are sold to more than 30 countries world-wide and sell in several currencies please contact the factory for pricing stating where you are from.Ĭhoose from a variety of aircraft including the Redback, the latest and most affordable in our range of twin seat certified aircraft: The fully optioned Classic 582 which is fully faired with optional electric start and oil injection. Airborne microlights are flown by general aviation and commercial pilots throughtout the world.Īirborne also supply wings to other manufactures of microlight aircraft or ultralight trikes. Welcome to AirBorne Australia Ultralight Aircraft Specialists.Īirborne specialise in the design and manufacture of ultralights (also called, microlights, trikes ultralight trikes and flexwing microlights, nanolights, nanolite), sport planes and hang gliders, for the serious adventure aviation enthusiast - they are a similar category to paragliders and the sport of paragliding.