The Aero-Service Puma is a Polish
ultralight aircraft
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and Aircraft flight control system, conventional three-a ...
, designed and produced by
Aero-Service Jacek Skopiński of
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
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Design and development
The Puma was designed to comply with the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
The World Air Sports Federation (; FAI) is the world governing body for air sports, and also stewards definitions regarding human spaceflight. It was founded on 14 October 1905, and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It maintains worl ...
microlight rules. It features a cantilever
low-wing
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing config ...
, a two-seats-in-
side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a
bubble canopy
A bubble canopy is an aircraft canopy constructed without bracing, for the purpose of providing a wider unobstructed field of view to the pilot, often providing 360° all-round visibility.
The designs of bubble canopies can vary drastically; so ...
, retractable
tricycle landing gear
Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or ''landing gear'', that is arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has one or more nose wheels in a single front undercarriage and two or more main wheels slightly aft of th ...
and a single engine in
tractor configuration
In aviation, a tractor configuration is a propeller-driven fixed-wing aircraft with its engine mounted with the propeller in front, so that the aircraft is "pulled" through the air. This is the usual configuration; the pusher configuration ...
.
The aircraft
fuselage
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is made from welded steel tubing, with an
aluminum
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sheet wing. Its span wing employs a
NACA 4415 airfoil
An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is a streamlined body that is capable of generating significantly more Lift (force), lift than Drag (physics), drag. Wings, sails and propeller blades are examples of airfoils. Foil (fl ...
at the
wing root, transitioning to a
NACA 4412 at the
wing tip. The wing has an area of and mounts
flaps. Standard engines available are the
Rotax 912UL
The Rotax 912 is a flat-four engine, horizontally-opposed four-cylinder, naturally-aspirated, four-stroke engine, four-stroke aircraft engine with a Propeller speed reduction unit, reduction gearbox. It features Radiator (engine cooling), l ...
, the
Rotax 912ULS and the
Rotax 914 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. The cabin width is .
The Puma was designed in 2008, with a prototype under construction in September 2011. No first flight of the design has been confirmed.
A fixed gear version, to be called the ''Raptor'', was under preliminary development in 2010.
Specifications (Puma)
See also
*
Aero-Service Panda
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.aero-service.com/airplanes/puma.php
Puma
2010s Polish ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft