No Need for Parking - An African Rock Climbing Adventure
No Need for Parking - An African Rock Adventure
No Need for Parking - An African Rock Climbing Adventure
No Need for Parking - An African Rock Climbing Adventure
The Cheetah XLS and Aerotrike Cobra flown in the rock climbing trip

Two types of aircraft were used during the trip:

Aerotrike Cobra

Aerotrike Cobra flown by Mike Blyth in the rock climbing adventureThe Aerotrike Cobra was designed with a clear brief – spare no cost to produce the strongest, lightest, safest and most comfortable high utility weight shift microlight aircraft available.

The first production Cobra, C-001, was flown 46,000 km around the world in the Millennium Microlight Adventure. This effectively served as an unprecedentedly extensive test flight and debugging exercise and resulted in several improvements to the aircraft. For information on the trip see www.trike-expeditions.com.

The Cobra not only offers excellent handling, safety, long distance, speed, rough terrain and lifting capability, but is priced better than any aircraft which could claim to compete with it.



Cheetah XLS

Cheetah XLS flown by James Pitman in the rock climbing adventureThe Cheetah is a high quality three axis very light aircraft having a maximum all up weight of 560kg. Some of the many reasons to buy a Cheetah include –

  • Exceptional handling characteristics
  • Sexy & sleek
  • Inexpensive to buy and run
  • Fantastic visibility
  • Short take-off and landing: 100m & 80m respectively
  • Long range with standard 100L tank: 500miles - 700miles
  • VERY Spacious cabin
  • Robust construction
  • Rated and tested to 560kg +6 -4g
  • Good suspension
  • Dual rear brakes
  • Wide range of engines and accessories available
  • Outstanding payload: Empty weight (with ROTAX 582) only 248kg

For further information on Cobra and Cheetah aircraft see www.aerotrike.co.za