The CFM Air Dardo ( en, italic=yes, Dart) is an Italian
ultralight aircraft
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that was designed by
CFM Air CFM or cfm may refer to:
Organizations
* Canadian Federation of Musicians, the Canadian branch of the American Federation of Musicians
* Capital Fund Management, a French hedge fund
* CFM International, a joint venture American and French companie ...
of
Cirié, introduced at the
AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2014.
[Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 37. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
Design and development
The Dardo was designed by CFM Air, a company usually noted for its contract aerospace development and prototyping of projects, with the intention of selling the design for production by another company. CFM Air has also not ruled out producing the aircraft itself, if needed.
The prototype was first flown in July 2014.
The Dardo features a cantilever
low-wing, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-
side-by-side configuration under a
bubble canopy, retractable
tricycle landing gear and a single engine in
tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made all composite materials. Its span wing has an area of and mounts
flaps. Standard engines intended for use are the
Rotax 912ULS and the
MW-Fly four-stroke
A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either directio ...
powerplants. In 2015 a hybrid
electric aircraft
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Electric aircraft are seen as a way to reduce the environmental effects of aviation, providing zero emissions and quieter flights.
Electricity may be supplied by a variety of methods, ...
version was shown in
Paris.
The design features a very wide cockpit of .
Specifications (Dardo)
References
External links
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Dardo
2010s Italian ultralight aircraft
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