Patent ID: 8210466
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
1. A light aeroplane of the ultra light class and sport plane category, the aeroplane comprising: an engine attached to a motor mount, proximate a nose of the aeroplane, with a tractor propeller; a cabin cell, arranged behind the engine, wide enough for two adjacent passenger seats; a monolithic central tube, having at least a 200 mm diameter, attached to the motor mount and extending forward along a longitudinal axis toward an engine of the aeroplane and extending rearward along the longitudinal axis to at least behind a leading edge of a vertical stabilizer and elevator of the aeroplane; a square profiled tube engaged with and beneath the central tube, the square profiled tube being perpendicular to the central tube; shock strut tubes, for supporting main wheels of the aeroplane, fit into and fixed in the square profiled tube; an upward rising tube bend, behind and fixed with back side ends of the square profiled tube, bordered from the front side by a plastic U-shaped profile in a cross section and defining a back door frame and a local external outline of the cabin above the square profiled tube; and the cabin being limited on a lower side by a virtual flat cabin floor and limited on an upper side by the upward rising tube bend, the cabin further extending longitudinally behind the square profile, in which a volume above the virtual flat cabin floor presents an orthorhombic space of at least 190 cm in length, at least 45 cm in width, and at least 40 cm in height and is capable of receiving a person lying on a stretcher, a maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the aeroplane being between 452.5 kg and 590 kg.