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Solid Air UL-Bau Franz is a German
aircraft manufacturer An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry. ...
based in Hundheim, Rheinland-Pfalz. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 222. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X The company has been noted for its innovative designs and use of materials to improve maintainability. The Solid Air Diamant Twin has an unusual
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 ...
cockpit and a
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engine mount laminated to a fibreglass structure to create a
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. The
Solid Air Diamant LP The Solid Air Diamant LP ( en, Diamond, Light Performance) is a German ultralight trike, designed and produced by Solid Air UL-Bau Franz of Hundheim, Rheinland-Pfalz. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robb ...
incorporates a two-point wing mounting that allows the carriage to be flared like a conventional
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