Slow and low flight in Ultralight trike is always lots of fun. This REV trike is powered with Polini Thor 250 Dual Spark engine, counter balanced water cooled engine delivers 36.5 HP of smooth power and it is enough to push the trike with rate of 400 to 500 FPM.
This trike was stolen in the Las Vegas area late summer 2012. Home made trike, Rotax 447 - Northwing green and white wing. The owner misses it dearly. Contact me if you have seen it.
Practicing high alpha landing is very important for a trike. High alpha means high angle of attack of the wing. In a trike, it is the position that the control bar is pushed out al...o the front tube. It slows down the touch down speed of a trike...
Jan Bohm prepared his trike with new (in that time) Rotax 912 with turbo for years. But in Himalaya the engine had broken. Then they flew other trike with R582. Sorry it is an old document in Czech language without subtitles. But the views are worth it.
In the recent past, there has been a lot of discussion about trike accidents, In the end if you train well, take...in safe conditions then there is nothing like trike flying :D Aviation is only as...
Here is a beautiful video of pure joy of trike...
Janet taught us this technique, then we went out and filmed it
In this trike, the charts can easily rest on the dash board during flight. I stil...places, like LAX, require that you have a current TAC chart in the trike...
This is the 5th "9000 Miles Trike Journey" movie. I made the first one in 2011. This year was a bit diffe...lishments. The first, I became a CFI (Certified Flight Instructor for trike). The second, I got the new SLSA trike...