S-Wing Swing

Swing
Role Ultralight aircraft and Light-sport aircraft
National origin Czech Republic
Manufacturer S-Wing VSLX R.O., Hluboká nad Vltavou
Number built 30 by 2008[1]


The S-Wing Swing (called the S-wing Aircraft Swing 06 in the United States)[2][3] is a high-wing, two-seat, single-engine ultralight/light sport aircraft designed and built in the Czech Republic.[4]

Design and development

The Swing is a conventionally laid out ultralight/LSA aircraft with a single engine and high wing. The constant chord wings, carrying 3° of dihedral, are built from GRP composite with hard leading edges and fabric elsewhere. Each wing has a single lift strut with a short auxiliary strut joining it near the wing. The wings carry GRP mass-balanced ailerons and three-position plain flaps.[5]

The fin of the Swing has a strongly swept leading edge and a nearly upright rudder. Early versions had an all moving, though braced, tailplane mounted about halfway up the fin but more recently this has been replaced by a fuselage mounted tailplane. Narrow near the tail, the fuselage increases in diameter to the cabin, placed under the wings. Cockpit width is 132 cm (52.0 in). The cockpit features bulged, glazed doors to improve visibility and room. Dual controls are standard, the seating side by side.[4][5]

The early Swings were powered by either 60 kW (80 hp) Rotax 912 UL flat-four engine or the two-stroke twin-cylinder 49 kW (65 hp) Rotax 582 UL, driving propellers with two or more blades.[6] Current (2010) aircraft have the 74 kW (99 hp) Rotax 912 ULS flat-four with a two-bladed propeller.[5]

The Swing has a fixed undercarriage, which may be of either tricycle or tailwheel configuration.[5]

The aircraft has been accepted in the United States as a special light-sport aircraft.[2][3]

Operational history

Swings were produced for the Czech market until around 1997. Eleven had been sold by the time it became available in the USA from 2007. Thirteen had been produced by mid-2010.[7] Three appear on the European (excluding Russian) civil registers, all in the Czech Republic.[8]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2010/11[5]

General characteristics

Performance

Avionics


References

  1. "Swing-aircraft - News". S-wing.eu. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
  2. 1 2 Federal Aviation Administration (21 June 2012). "SLSA Make/Model Directory". Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  3. 1 2 Experimental Aircraft Association (2012). "EAA's Listing of Special Light-Sport Aircraft". Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  4. 1 2 Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 74. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Jackson, Paul (2010). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2010-11. Coulsdon, Surrey: IHS Jane's. pp. 176–7. ISBN 978-0-7106-2916-6.
  6. Jackson, Paul (2000). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2000-01. Coulsdon, Surrey: Jane's Information Group. p. 104. ISBN 0-7106-2011-X.
  7. Jackson, Paul (2010). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2011-12. Coulsdon, Surrey: IHS Jane's. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-7106-2955-5.
  8. Partington, Dave (2010). European registers handbook 2010. Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85130-425-0.
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