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FLIGHT TEST It’s a Breeze! Paul Bennett (below) gets reacquainted I WAS fi rst introduced to the Breezer over 10 years ments, since at that time the maximum all-up weight ago when I was working with Aero sport at Halfpenny was 450kg and no parachute, meaning we had to with old friend the Breezer Green. keep the empty weight to 268kg with the Rotax 912. The Breezer’s a great looking aeroplane, Aerosport was the main dealer for Comco Ikarus, Today you are allowed a MAUW of 472.5kg with bal- “ which produced the C42, and Comco had taken on listic recovery system, and since that weighs only 10- with a beautiful long nose, lovely proportions the world distribution of the Breezer, which was be- 12kg, you have up to 12.5kg extra payload. ing manufactured in Dresden. So Aerosport had au- At the time, Aerosport decided that the Breezer and a sliding canopy tomatically become dealers for the UK. would best fi t into the American LSA category with Designed by Ralf Magnussen, the Breezer made its a MAUW of 600kg and stall speed without fl aps of fi rst fl ight in December 1999 and went into produc- 45kt. ” tion in 2001. It arrived in the UK in 2006 and was This required more tests, which showed that the of the aircraft, and a gap in my workload fi nally co- displayed at the Flying Show at Telford that year. Breezer stalled at around 50kt, but we solved the incided with decent weather to let me jump in my Being chief test pilot for Aerosport, I had to put problem by attaching vortex generators to the top Jabiru Calypso and fl y up to Luke’s Field in Kent, the the aircraft through its paces, and clocked up nu- of the wing, bringing the clean stall speed down to home of Breezer and EuroFox importer and builders merous hours of assessment and many demonstra- 44kt.
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