Cyclone AX2000
| AX2000 | |
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| A HKS 700E powered AX2000 | |
| Role | microlight |
| National origin | United Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Cyclone Airsports Ltd |
| First flight | c.1997 |
| Number built | at least 29 |
| Developed from | Cyclone AX3 |
The Cyclone AX2000 is a British built three axis microlight, first flown in the 1990s. It seats two in side-by-side configuration.
The AX2000 is a development of the earlier Cyclone AX3, a UK regulation compliant variant of the French Ultralair Premier AX3. This, in turn, was a three axis development of the US Chotia Weedhopper from the early 1980s.
The Cyclone AX2000 is an aluminium tube framed three axis microlight with flying surfaces covered with a polyester fabric with outer PVF lamination (URLAM). The whole aircraft is built around a long, high aluminium keel boom, which bears the engine, wings and empennage. The wing is a two spar structure, with surfaces formed by upper and lower battens rather than ribs. It carries conventional, full span, tapering ailerons but no flaps. The tailplane is mounted on the keel and has an anti-balance/trim tab on the starboard elevator. There is a small fixed fin below the keel but none above; the rudder is balanced and extends below the elevators, moving in a cut-out.
The short, deep fuselage is built around a wire braced tube beam. Lift and landing loads are taken by V-shaped, cross braced pairs of lift struts from the bottom of the fuselage to each wing, assisted by a centre line strut to the boom at the wing leading edge. The cockpit enclosure is non-structural, with forward opening doors to a pair of side-by-side seats. These are equipped with separate rudder pedals but the occupants share a central control column. The AX2000 has a tricycle undercarriage mounted close to the fuselage.
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