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[Guest ozzie]

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[Guest davidh10]

Here's something similar (Pegasus Supra), although the picture is a bit busy. No I'm not referring to the RC aircraft on the floor in front of it!

 

You have to hand it to the pioneers of aviation, and also for ultralight aviation.

 

It was the 8th ultralight registered in Australia and pictured here on exhibition at the John Duigan Centenary celebration at YYWG.

 

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

ahh the Pegasus. this is an almost copy of the American Aerolights Eagle. Interesting machine a mixture of weightshift and aerodynamic control. the canard has an elevator that has two lines going back to each side of the pilots swing seat that is clipped onto the keel when you push on the bar it caused the elevator to deflect down(remember a canard elevator works in the opposite sense to a tailed elevator) and caused the machine to climb. pulling on the bar allowed the aircraft to decend by weight shift only. the canard had a spring on it to return it to level. the motocycle type handle bar with a twist grip throttle, turned left and right and was connected via lines to the wing tip rudder and with the assistance of weight shift turned the aircraft. pretty weird but effective. i flew a eagle several times and once on floats, that was a real hair raising experience due to the fact the unbaffeled floats leaked and had allowed several gallons of water to enter. on climb out all the water raced to the back of the floats and it kept climbing untill it ran out of airspeed. no amount of pulling on the bar could get the nose down. yes canards do stall !! then the nose dropped and all the water raced up the front. lots of handstanding on the bar and pulled out just before hitting the water nose came up and water raced back and off i went again and again and again till i managed to get it level and let it hit the water without breaking anything. taxied back in and commented to the owner, Arnold Cohen (Steve's brother) that i think something was wrong with it. No said Arnie and off he went to prove me right with an exact repeat of my flight. After rebuilding the floats with some baffels and good glue had another shot at it. Not bad it was a fun machine once you got used to the weird control combination. i think the Pegasus was an Australian machine from Victoria around 1983.

 

 

[farri]

Thanks Ozzie,now that looks like a fun machine.

 

Frank