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The Raceair Skylite is an American ultralight aircraft that was designed by Ed Fisher and made available in the form of plans for amateur construction, by Raceair Designs.〔Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page E-35. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4〕 The Skylite design was started in 1988 and the completed aircraft was first shown at Oshkosh in 1991.〔 ==Design and development== The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a strut-braced high wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The design is intended to resemble the high-wing air racers of the 1930s.〔〔 The Skylite is constructed with a welded 4130 steel tube fuselage, with the wings built from riveted and gussetted aluminum tubing. The wing ribs are made from angled aluminum and have an spacing between them. All surfaces are covered in 1.6 oz aircraft fabric finished with latex. Its span wing is supported by "V" lift struts and jury struts and features full-span ailerons. The vertical stabilizer is highly swept back. The pilot is accommodated in a semi-enclosed cockpit with a windshield. The specified engine was the Rotax 277 of , but being plans-built other powerplants were also used.〔〔 Due to its plans-built construction and complex design, only a small number of aircraft were completed before the plans were initially taken off the market. Today plans and kits are again available from Wings Of Freedom of Hubbard, Ohio as well as the newly resurrected Raceair Designs. Construction time is estimated as 750 hours.〔〔 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「Raceair Skylite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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