{"id":399,"date":"2014-06-11T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2014-06-11T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:21:16","slug":"e-go-aeroplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"e-Go aeroplane"},"content":{"rendered":"
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e-Go prototype<\/p><\/div>\n

Now here’s one of my favourite up and coming single seat ultralights – the e-Go aeroplane.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the suggestion in its name, the e-Go is not battery powered (yet). In fact propulsion unit is\u00a0a 30 hp rotary (Wankel) engine adapted for the aircraft from its original use in large drones.<\/p>\n

Performance figures for the\u00a0single seat, very light weight (115 kgs empty) aircraft are quite amazing – cruise around 100 knots, slowest flight speed (canards don’t stall as such)\u00a0around 35 knots, take-off and landing distances around 150 metres. Typical fuel burn is around 6.5 – 7.0 litres\/hour, giving about a 3 hour duration with reserve.<\/p>\n

The aircraft is not yet in production and is still undergoing extensive testing in its home country – the UK. First customer deliveries are expected to be in early 2015. However, at an asking price from\u00a0about UK\u00a350,000 (that’s about A$90,000 plus shipping and taxes at today’s rates) I can’t see high volume sales in Australia. And there’s also the problem of registration in Australia – currently (unlike USA and Europe\/UK) there is no category under which this factory-built midget speedster can be registered. That’s a shame, as even given the high price, there are undoubtedly well heeled buyers out there\u00a0who would have one…<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the e-GO website: e-Go aeroplane<\/a><\/p>\n

Let me know your thoughts. Are you interested? Reactions to price? Lack of Australian movement towards ‘deregulation’ of single seat ultralights as per USA and Europe?<\/p>\n

And here are some links to earlier blog posts I made about single seat light aircraft:<\/p>\n

Single seat ultralights – the Sirocco NG<\/a><\/p>\n

More single seat ultralights – the Aerolite 103<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now here’s one of my favourite up and coming single seat ultralights – the e-Go aeroplane. Contrary to the suggestion in its name, the e-Go is not battery powered (yet). In fact propulsion unit is\u00a0a 30 hp rotary (Wankel) engine … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[64,364,895,896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}