Thruster T600 Sprint
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| Role | Ultralight aircraft
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| National origin | United Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Thruster Air Services |
| Introduction | mid-1990s |
| Produced | 1997-2012 |
The Thruster T600 Sprint is a British
ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Thruster Air Services of Langworth, Lincolnshire and introduced in the mid-1990s. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.[1][2]
Design and development
The aircraft complies with the
side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed via doors, fixed tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.[1][2]
The aircraft is made from bolted-together
Variants
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Specifications (T600 Sprint)
Data from Bayerl and Thruster Air Services[1][3]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one passenger
- Length: 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in)
- Wingspan: 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
- Height: 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
- Wing area: 15.70 m2 (169.0 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 197 kg (434 lb)
- Gross weight: 450 kg (992 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 50 litres (11 imp gal; 13 US gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × two stroke aircraft enginewith "E" gearbox, 48 kW (64 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed Warp Drive Inc composite
Performance
- Maximum speed: 140 km/h (87 mph, 76 kn)
- Cruise speed: 105 km/h (65 mph, 57 kn)
- Stall speed: 59 km/h (37 mph, 32 kn)
- Rate of climb: 4.5 m/s (890 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 28.67 kg/m2 (5.87 lb/sq ft)
See also
- Similar aircraft
References
- ^ ISSN 1368-485X
- ^ ISSN 1368-485X
- ^ a b Thruster Air Services (n.d.). "Thruster T600 Sprint – 450 kg Standard Specifications". Retrieved 9 September 2012.
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