Apollo Jet Star
| {{Infobox Aircraft Begin
| name= Jet Star | image= | caption= }}{{Infobox Aircraft Type | type=Ultralight trike | national origin=Hungary | manufacturer=Apollo Ultralight Aircraft | designer= | first flight= | introduced= | retired= | status=In production (2013) | primary user= | more users= | produced= | number built= | program cost= | unit cost= | developed from= | variants with their own articles= }} |
The Apollo Jet Star is a Hungarian ultralight trike, designed and produced by Apollo Ultralight Aircraft of Eger. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al.: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 205. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
Design and development
The Jet Star was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category as well as the US light-sport aircraft category. It features a cable-braced or strut-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 Jet Star is accepted in the United States as both an Experimental and Special Light-sport aircraft.{{cite web|url=http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/light_sport/media/SLSA_Directory.xls |title=SLSA Make/Model Directory |accessdate=17 April 2013 |last=Federal Aviation Administration |date=7 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516004527/http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/light_sport/media/SLSA_Directory.xls |archivedate=16 May 2013 }}
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The aircraft uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The main landing gear uses strut-type suspension, rather than the leaf-type suspension used on the Apollo Delta Jet series. The powerplant options include the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition {{convert|64|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Rotax 582 engine, the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition {{convert|80|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Rotax 912 or {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Rotax 912S engine.
The aircraft has an empty weight of {{convert|180|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} and a gross weight of {{convert|430|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}, giving a useful load of {{convert|250|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}. With full fuel of {{convert|45|L}} the payload is {{convert|218|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}.
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the cable-braced Aeros Profi, the cable-braced Air Creation iXess, the strut-braced Aeros Profi TL or the strut-braced Gibbogear Manta Ray 12.5.
Specifications (Jet Star)
{{Aircraft specs
|prime units?=met
|genhide=
|crew=one
|capacity=one passenger
|length m=
|length ft=
|length in=
|length note=
|span m=9.5
|span ft=
|span in=
|span note=
|height m=
|height ft=
|height in=
|height note=
|wing area sqm=15
|wing area sqft=
|wing area note=
|aspect ratio=
|airfoil=
|empty weight kg=180
|empty weight lb=
|empty weight note=
|gross weight kg=430
|gross weight lb=
|gross weight note=
|fuel capacity={{convert|45|L}}
|more general=
|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Rotax 912UL
|eng1 type=four cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke aircraft engine
|eng1 kw=60
|eng1 hp=
|prop blade number=3
|prop name=composite
|prop dia m=
|prop dia ft=
|prop dia in=
|prop note=
|perfhide=
|max speed kmh=125
|max speed mph=
|max speed kts=
|max speed note=
|cruise speed kmh=110
|cruise speed mph=
|cruise speed kts=
|cruise speed note=
|stall speed kmh=55
|stall speed mph=
|stall speed kts=
|stall speed note=
|never exceed speed kmh=
|never exceed speed mph=
|never exceed speed kts=
|never exceed speed note=
|range km=
|range miles=
|range nmi=
|range note=
|endurance=
|ceiling m=
|ceiling ft=
|ceiling note=
|g limits=
|roll rate=
|glide ratio=
|climb rate ms=4
|climb rate ftmin=
|climb rate note=
|time to altitude=
|sink rate ms=
|sink rate ftmin=
|sink rate note=
|lift to drag=
|wing loading kg/m2=28.7
|wing loading lb/sqft=
|wing loading note=
|power/mass=
|thrust/weight=
|more performance=
|avionics=
}}
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.halley.hu/apollo.php}}
{{Apollo Ultralight Aircraft}}
Category:2000s Hungarian sport aircraft
Category:2000s Hungarian ultralight aircraft