World Record Breaking Flight for CompoTech Customer

10 / 03 / 2006
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The World Air Sports Federation recently ratified a World Speed Record in the class R subclass RAL2*. The speed achieved by Jiri Unzeitig and Vera Vavrinova over a straight 15/25km course, near Horovice in the Czech Republic, reached an impressive 274.78kph (170.74mph), surpassing the previous record of 265kph (164.66mph).

 

Built by Vanessa Air, whose main business is the design, drawing and analysis of ultralight and sporting aircraft, the record-breaking microlight used CompoTech’s structural composite tubes as rods to connect the control surfaces on the wings, ruder, elevator and ailerons to the joystick in the pilot’s hands. These parts are the primary sytem of controlling the aircraft.

CompoTech's tubes, produced using the company’s unique zero degree axial fibre laying process, provided a solution that was not only lightweight, but also strong enough to meet the designers specification.

*Microlights: Movable Aerodynamic Control, Landplane, Flown with two persons