Phantom X-1e
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Buggy on Floats
Float-Equipped Air Création Trike
Trikes and floats offer the same fun potential as do floats on most ultralights. But they offer more challenge to make it work.
First of all, trikes leave the ground differently than most 3-axis ultralights. When the wing takes off, the chassis swings into place underneath it, pivoting forward several inches of displacement. While this makes landings easy (the main gear contacts earth first), this shift requires float fitting to be well-considered.
Then, you must develop a water rudder system, which isn’t particularly challenging except to keep everything light. Without such a system, a trike cannot be maneuvered in the water, unlike a rudder airplane which can steer by propblast against the rudder. The standard steering pedals are used in the same push- right go-left method of ground steering a trike.
I once tried to water taxi a trike (for a photo shoot of all things) back in the early ’80s, before water rudders had been developed for trikes.
TEAM Aircraft – Air Bike
TEAM Aircraft – Air Bike
By Dan Johnson, August 1, 1995
“Wow! …what a great little machine,” is how many airshow attendees regarded the unique plane TEAM introduced at Sun ‘n Fun 1994. When the company unloaded the Airbike at the Florida event, it was immediately surrounded with admirers who didn’t leave it alone for the entire week.
The mystique encompassing the Airbike is more than looks. A delightfully simple and light machine, it meets the weight requirements of Part 103 with 30 pounds to spare! An airplane you get on not in, TEAM’s Airbike is aimed at newcomers, or anyone looking for a good time in the air. Derived from their early (never released) EZE-MAX, an all wood design with an equally narrow fuselage, the Airbike represents a departure for TEAM. She’s made up of a welded steel main structure, wood wings, fiberglass upper cowl, aluminum support structure… making the Airbike a genuine “composite.”
Flying an Airbike confirms one thing.
