GoFly Gotar
{{Short description|French autogyro}}
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The GoFly Gotar is a French autogyro that was designed by and was under development by GoFly Aeronatique of Boves, Somme, introduced in 2013. The aircraft was intended to be supplied to customers complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 194. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}
The company seems to have been founded about 2013 and gone out of business in 2016.{{cite web|url= https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.gofly-ulm.fr |title=Gofly-ULM |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |access-date=15 November 2017}}{{cbignore}} It is unclear whether any examples were completed and flown.
Design and development
The Gotar has a fuselage design that can be finished as an autogyro with an unpowered rotor, a helicopter with a powered rotor, or as an ultralight trike with a hang glider-type wing fitted. The autogyro version was developed first and it seems unlikely that other versions were completed.
As an autogyro the Gotar features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in tandem open cockpit with a windshield, tricycle landing gear without wheel pants, plus a tail caster and a four-cylinder, 16 valve, air-cooled, four stroke {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Vija J-10Si engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft fuselage is made from metal tubing, with a small cockpit fairing and a curved windshield that continues over the seats to the rotor mast. Its two-bladed rotor has a diameter of {{convert|8.4|m|ft|1|abbr=on}}. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of {{convert|245|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} and a gross weight of {{convert|450|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}, giving a useful load of {{convert|205|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}. With full fuel of {{convert|70|L}} the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is {{convert|155|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}.
The design was first promoted on the company website in 2013, but had reportedly not flown by 2015. The company website was removed at the end of 2016. The company presumably no longer exists and Gotar development ended.
Specifications (Gotar)
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See also
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.gofly-ulm.fr Official website archives] on Archive.org
Category:2010s French sport aircraft