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The ABS Aerolight Navigathor is a French powered parachute and roadable aircraft that was designed and produced by ABS Aerolight of Sérignan-du-Comtat. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft and as a kit for amateur construction.〔Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 78. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X〕 The company appears to have gone out of business in late 2007 and production ended. ==Design and development== The Navigathor is a development of the earlier ATE, which stands for ''Air-Terre-Eau'' ((英語:Air-Land-Water)) and indicates that the vehicle is capable of being used as a flying car with a top road speed of or as a boat with a top water speed of .〔 As an aircraft the Navigathor was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . The aircraft carriage is built from a combination of metal tubing and composites and features a wedge-shaped boat hull. It features a parachute-style wing, two-seats-in-tandem in an open cockpit, four-wheeled cross country all terrain vehicle style landing gear and a single Hirth F-30 four-cylinder, horizontally opposed, two-stroke, aircraft engine, mounted in pusher configuration. In all modes the vehicle is powered by its ducted propeller.〔 The vehicle has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload is .〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ABS Aerolight Navigathor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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