Buckeye
Honda powered parachute, Buckeye Dragonfly single place part
103 legal Honda four stroke aircraft engine powered
parachute, Lightsport Aircraft Pilot video magazine.
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Buckeye Dragonfly
powered parachute
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At one time in the mid 80's
FAA showed up at one of the air shows with a set of weigh
scales and started weighing Part 103 ultralights.
Manufacturers scrambled to loose weight, removing seat
cushions, changing out wheels, getting rid of brakes and
instruments etc. Rumor has it some even went so far as to
install dummy ballistic parachutes on their planes to take
advantage of the parachute chute allowance.
27 years later some manufacturers are again looking for ways
to loose weight, and in fact are now designing aircraft
specifically to fit into Part 103 with room to spare.
Buckeye Aviation of Argos Indiana introduced the Buckeye
Dragonfly at Airventure 2007. The idea behind the Dragonfly
was produce a strong, lightweight, dependable, affordable
single place ultralight aircraft.
One of the ways of accomplishing this was to start from
scratch and build an airframe around a new power plant a
Honda two cylinder four stroke 24 HP engine. The engine uses
just over 1 gallon of fuel an hour, and has a 2,000 hour TBO,
with maintenance consisting of changing the spark plugs and
oil. The engine is one of Honda's "service duty engines"
designed to run generators or waterpumps for extended
periods of time.
The craft uses a 2.70 to 1 belt reduction drive and spins a
72 inch Culver Prop, with a top engine speed of only 4250
RPM. This combination of engine, redrive, and prop makes the
Dragonfly whisper quiet when flying.
The craft comes with a battery, electric start and charging
system.
Buckeye has introduced a new control system set up on the
Dragonfly going to a single stick design. You apply power by
pulling back on the stick to go up, push forward to go down.
For ground steering push the stick left to go left and right
to go right.
In flight controls are via foot steering bars, pushing right
takes you right and left moves you left.
Buckeye has also introduced a new instrument panel from
Taskem to work with the Honda engine. It has oil temp, RPM,
flight time climb rate and an altimeter.
The craft is in production, coming as a kit, which takes
about a week to assemble, with no manufacturing required.
For more information contact:
Buckeye
Aviation, Inc.
16095 Linden Rd.
Argos, Indiana 46501
574- 892-5460
www.buckeyeaviation.com
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