North Wing Solairus
{{Short description|American ultralight trike}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2022}}
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The North Wing Solairus is an American ultralight trike that was designed and produced by North Wing Design of Chelan, Washington, introduced about 2015. Now out of production, when it was available it was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 236. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}
By February 2018, the aircraft was no longer offered for sale on the company website, although a trike wing with the same name was still in production.{{cite web|url =http://northwing.com/northwing-trikes-wings.htm#solairus |title = Wings|accessdate = 22 February 2018|author=North Wing Design|work = northwing.com|year=2017 }}
Design and development
The Solairus was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of {{convert|254|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of {{convert|254|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.
The aircraft design features a strut-braced topless hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit with a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel fairings and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft wing is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The trike carriage is of composite materials and is an aerodynamically faired design. Its {{convert|34.68|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a single-cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke {{convert|21|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Polini Thor 100, {{convert|29|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Polini Thor 200 engine or the {{convert|22|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Bailey 200 V4.
The aircraft has a carriage weight of {{convert|108|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and an empty weight of {{convert|254|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.
Specifications (Solairus)
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References
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