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The Flylight Dragonfly is a British ultralight trike, designed by Ben Ashman and produced by Flylight Airsports of Northamptonshire. 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 212. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X〕 Development of the Dragonfly started in 2007 with the aircraft entering series production in 2008. ==Design and development== The Dragonfly was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, the UK Single-Seat De-Regulation (SSDR) guidelines, as well as the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a strut-braced Aeros Discus hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.〔 The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 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 four-stroke, Bailey V4 200 engine, with the single cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke Simonini Mini-3 or Simonini Mini-2 engines optional.〔 With the Bailey engine and the Aeros Discus 15T wing the Dragonfly has an empty weight of and a full fuel capacity of . With its manual, or optionally electrically retractable landing gear the aircraft can be folded up and ground transported in the trunk of a car.〔 A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including Aeros Discus 15T, 14 and 12 as well as the Aeros Combat 12T.〔 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「Flylight Dragonfly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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