FLYARGO

The Direct Fly ArGO is a Czech-manufactured ultralight and light-sport aircraft, that was introduced at the Blois fly-in show in France in 2011. It was designed and produced by Direct Fly sro of Hluk, and was available as a complete, ready-to-fly aircraft. The ArGO was designed to meet the microlight rules of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and the US light-sport aircraft (LSA) rules with different versions at different gross weights for each category. Features of the ArGO include a strut-braced high-wing, an enclosed cabin with a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration accessed by doors, fixed tricycle landing gear, and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft’s fuselage is made from welded steel tubing covered in aluminum sheet, with its flying surfaces made from aluminum sheet. The wing has an area of 9.90 m² (106.6 sq ft) and mounts Fowler flaps. The standard engine options are the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL and the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants. As of February 2017, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration’s list of approved special light-sport aircraft. The ArGO includes two models with different gross weights, the arGO ULL with 472.5 kg (1,042 lb) for the FAI Microlight category, and the arGO LSA/ELSA with 575 kg (1,268 lb) for the US LSA category. The ArGO ULL has a crew of one and a capacity of one passenger, with a wingspan of 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in), height of 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in), and a fuel capacity of 100 litres (22 imp gal; 26 US gal). The aircraft features a 1× Rotax 912ULS four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four-stroke aircraft engine, 75 kW (101 hp) and 3-bladed composite propellers. The ArGO ULL has a maximum speed of 270 km/h (170 mph, 150 kn), cruise speed of 200 km/h (120 mph, 110 kn), and a stall speed of 62 km/h (39 mph, 33 kn) with full flaps. Its rate of climb is 6.2 m/s (1,220 ft/min) and wing loading is 47.7 kg/m² (9.8 lb/sq ft).