Air Creation Trek
{{Short description|French ultralight trike}}
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The Air Creation Trek is a French ultralight trike, designed by Air Creation of Aubenas. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 200. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
Design and development
Developed from the earlier Air Creation GTE, the Trek was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of {{convert|450|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}. The Trek features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, and is commonly fitted with the Air Creation Fun 450 wing, which has a single surface covered in Dacron sailcloth. The {{convert|10|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} span Fun wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a Japanese, twin cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition {{convert|60|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} HKS 700E engine. This engine choice provides similar reliability, smoothness and fuel economy to the Rotax 912, but at a much lower cost. With the HKS 700E engine the aircraft is designated as the Air Creation Trek 700E.
The Trek has an empty weight of {{convert|190|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} and a gross weight of {{convert|450|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}, giving a useful load of {{convert|260|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}. With full fuel of {{convert|38|L}} the payload is {{convert|233|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}.
In addition to the Fun wing, the more high performance double surface Air Creation iXess wing can alternatively be fitted.{{cite web|url = http://www.aircreation.fr/en/catalog/tricycles/trek_700e_238|title = Trek 700E|accessdate = 6 March 2013|last = Air Creation|date = n.d.|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130412162810/http://www.aircreation.fr/en/catalog/tricycles/trek_700e_238|archive-date = 12 April 2013|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}
Specifications (Trek 700E)
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References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.aircreation.fr/en/catalog/tricycles/trek_700e_238}}
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