The Heli-Sport CH77 Ranabot is an Italian

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designed and produced by Heli-Sport of

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. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 205. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

Design and development

The CH77 Ranabot was designed to comply with the European Class 6 microlight helicopter rules. It features a single main rotor and tail rotor, a single-seat, a two-seats-in

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enclosed cockpit, skid landing gear and an EPA Power-modified four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled,

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Rotax 914 The Rotax 914 is a turbo-charged, four-stroke, four-cylinder, horizontally opposed aircraft engine with air-cooled cylinders and water-cooled cylinder heads. It is designed and built by the Austrian company BRP-Powertrain, owned by Bombardier ...

engine. The aircraft's two-bladed rotor has a diameter of . The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is . The microlight category version has a gross weight of Reviewer Werner Pfaendler wrote, "with side-by-side seating combined with excellent comfort, handling and performance, plus a reliable engine (a Rotax 914 tuned by EPA Power), it has a lot to offer... tboasts minimal operating costs, only some 6% higher than the CH7 Kompress Charlie 2".

Specifications (CH77 Ranabot)

References

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Design and development

Specifications (CH77 Ranabot)

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