Hi,
As the title says, me and a group of friends are looking for advice on how we could power a small ultralight 1 seater aircraft we plan on building. This plane would not be going from airport to airport and never taken more than 500ft up, it is simply for field hopping. Unfortunately we are based in the UK so both our choice of parts is limited and we only have a budget of around £800 (for the engine). We have looked at small horizontal engines up to 25Hp as it seems the only way to obtain a reasonable amount of power cheaply (how we would go about attaching a propeller will likely be improvised) however if anyone knows of any cheaper solutions or would like to offer us any advice on completely from scratch builds - then it is incredibly welcome.
As the title says, me and a group of friends are looking for advice on how we could power a small ultralight 1 seater aircraft we plan on building. This plane would not be going from airport to airport and never taken more than 500ft up, it is simply for field hopping. Unfortunately we are based in the UK so both our choice of parts is limited and we only have a budget of around £800 (for the engine). We have looked at small horizontal engines up to 25Hp as it seems the only way to obtain a reasonable amount of power cheaply (how we would go about attaching a propeller will likely be improvised) however if anyone knows of any cheaper solutions or would like to offer us any advice on completely from scratch builds - then it is incredibly welcome.
