The Airsport Sonata is a
Czech ultralight motor glider with retractable propeller, designed and produced by
Airsport
Airsport sro is a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Zbraslavice. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of microlight aircraft and motorgliders in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft for the E ...
of
Zbraslavice
Zbraslavice (german: Sbraslawitz) is a municipality and village in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historicall ...
.
Design and development
The aircraft features a cantilever
low-wing, a
T-tail
A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane is mounted to the top of the fin. The arrangement looks like the capital letter T, hence the name. The T-tail differs from the standard configuration in which the tailplane is ...
, a two-seats-in-
side-by-side configuration
Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction.
The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...
enclosed cockpit, electric flaps, a retractable landing gear, and a single engine in
tractor configuration.
The Sonata is made from composites. Its
polyhedral wing is . Standard engines available are the
Rotax 582 two-stroke
A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a Thermodynamic power cycle, power cycle with two strokes (up and down movements) of the piston during one power cycle, this power cycle being comple ...
and the
Hirth
Hirth Engines GmbH is an engine manufacturer based in Benningen, Germany. It is currently a part of the UMS Aero Group. Hirth began manufacturing aero engines in the 1920s, was taken over by Heinkel in WWII to develop the Heinkel-Hirth jet en ...
F34 powerplant.
Specifications
References
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