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April 01, 2023

1/8 Scale A380 Offered As SportPlane

"A380 Mini" is a Single Seat, Shrunken Airliner for the Sport Pilot

Airbus is making waves with their latest addition to the company portfolio, introducing a homebuilt aircraft kit, a one-eighth-scale rendition of their giant A380 airliner. The A380 Mini will be offered for completion as an Experimental Amateur Built aircraft, one which outweighs both Part 103 Ultralight and LSA weight limits. The project has its roots in a back-of-the-napkin project by a handful of Airbus engineers in their off hours, taken up by an anonymous exec within the company who apparently wanted an example bad enough to greenlight a limited production run of the kits for their own creation.

New Twin-Turbocharged, Nitrous-Injected Light Sport Engine Provides Wild Power Output for Experimental Aircraft

A small pet project under the Rotax umbrella was let loose on the world after general manager Peter Ölsinger approved a limited production run of a high-performance, custom-tuned crate engine for experimental aircraft. The engine builds on the popular Rotax engine series, which has seen continuous performance improvements since the original 80-hp 912 ULS years ago. While the recently introduced 916 iS/c provides 160 horsepower with a fuel-injected 4-cylinder, the new 917 iS/TT almost 2 1/2 times the power, with a total output of 341 horsepower.