Apollo AG-1 in full production - Intro prices

[fara]

I am pleased to announce that Apollo AG-1 is in full production with dozens on orders in the second line. All the test flights have been finished according to the factory. The first batch blues have been sold.
At this point I feel comfortable taking orders. I placed mine in the second batch of production on purpose. The timeline is slow (4.5 months). They are trying to increase capacity but currently have many orders.

Introductory price FOB Tampa, FL is $59,900.00 with Rotax 912ULS or $71500.00 with Rotax 914UL, with all basic day VFR instruments. I will keep this price for the first 5 orders. These prices include builder's assist and airworthiness with Tampa FSDO FAA inspector. For the first batch of orders, the builder's support and airworthiness will be done here in Florida to keep control of quality as there is no detailed assembly manual in English yet with approved work instructions.

[PTKay]

I have seen a version with the BMW engine on the German forum.

Are you planing to offer it too?

It's a great engine!

[fara]

Originally Posted by PTKay

I have seen a version with the BMW engine on the German forum.

Are you planing to offer it too?

It's a great engine!

Hi Paul:
I know that engine and conversion well. I asked Mr. Molnar in reference to a trike if he would recommend that engine. He said not for me because he knows I do a lot of training and cross country flights. He said for a personal owner flying 80 hours a year, that would be ok but for me who at the time was averaging 500 hours a year ... no. That pretty much tells me all I needed to know.

[Fly Army]

Is there a website for this aircraft ?

[PTKay]

Still a nice machine with BMW.

In German, but some nice pics.:

http://www.gyrocopter-forum.de/viewt...hp?f=20&t=1050

[Steve_UK]

here is the web link

http://www.halley.hu/apollo.php?kat_nev=Apollo%20Gyro

more on my Gyro-Gyros link blog below


Please let me know if you know of other GYRO related links to be added - ta

[PTKay]

Originally Posted by Steve_UK

here is the web link

http://www.halley.hu/apollo.php?kat_nev=Apollo%20Gyro

more on my Gyro-Gyros link blog below


Please let me know if you know of other GYRO related links to be added - ta

Link doesn't work for me.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by fara

I am pleased to announce that Apollo AG-1 is in full production with dozens on orders in the second line.

Dozens?
It would appear that the Apollo AG-1 is now dominating the U.S. gyroplane market.
Congratulations.

[Fly Army]

Thanks for the link but I was kind of hoping they would have specifications listed somewhere, like MGTOW, BOW, Vne etc. I guess that's just not the Eastern European way.

[PTKay]

Originally Posted by Fly Army

Thanks for the link but I was kind of hoping they would have specifications listed somewhere, like MGTOW, BOW, Vne etc. I guess that's just not the Eastern European way.

I would appreciate if you would not consider Hungary as Eastern Europe.
It is just 40 km from Vienna, which you certainly do not consider
Eastern Europe.

The official term is Central Europe, and includes Poland,
Czech, Slovakia, Hungary.

Maybe Finland is for you Western Europe, Nokia etc., but actually it is
400 km east from Poland.

Just to put some limits on prejudice...

[NoWingsAttached]

Originally Posted by PTKay

I would appreciate if you would not consider Hungary as Eastern Europe.
It is just 40 km from Vienna, which you certainly do not consider
Eastern Europe.

The official term is Central Europe, and includes Poland,
Czech, Slovakia, Hungary.

Maybe Finland is for you Western Europe, Nokia etc., but actually it is
400 km east from Poland.

Just to put some limits on prejudice...

For the Cold War "Baby Boomers" in the USA, there is no such thing as Central Europe. There are NATO countries, hence "Western" Europe, and there are former Soviet bloc countries, and they ALL are Eastern European countries to us.

Did you realize that we used to consider half of GERMANY and EASTERN EUROPEAN nation?

All true. Now that Germany is a whole again, it is all western.

Hungary was definitely part of the USSR at one time, and I am afraid that my generation will never see it as Central, although that is technically correct and the news orgs are now referring to these countries that way. Old habits die hard.

[NoWingsAttached]

Looks like a Magni or MTO knock-off. I wont' be able to tell them apart if I see them in the air. But it does look good, and BMW is a good brand for power. Certainly a better dollar choice than Rotax.

[ckurz7000]

Just two weeks ago I talked to Attila who is doing the flight testing for the AG-1. I also had a close look at the AG-1. The design borrows heavily from the MTO with a few modifications. The BMW sounds quiet in comparison, like you are used from a BMW motorbike. It starts easily and the prop has a centrifugal clutch which only engages it at higher rpm. The reduction drive unit looks well made and well matched. The only piece of caution I received from Abid, the US importer, who was advised by the manufacturer to use a Rotax (see post #3 in this thread).

But all things considered, it is also not particularly inexpensive as to make a big difference in the market segment it addresses...

-- Chris.

[JEFF TIPTON]

So would this be it?

http://www.trikepilot.com/videos/vie...g-1_15504.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=r9-w0yjUIj8

[Steve_UK]

""For the Cold War "Baby Boomers" in the USA, there is no such thing as Central Europe. There are NATO countries, hence "Western" Europe, and there are former Soviet bloc countries, and they ALL are Eastern European countries to us.""


Oh dear - you need to come out of your stupor. "Western European" was not defined by being a member of NATO - Sweden, Finland, Switzerland even good old France were not members of NATO. But Canada was - is Canada part of Western Europe.


""Did you realize that we used to consider half of GERMANY and EASTERN EUROPEAN nation? All true. Now that Germany is a whole again, it is all western.""

Those of us who live in Europe do have an understanding of recent 20th C history.


""Hungary was definitely part of the USSR at one time, and I am afraid that my generation will never see it as Central, although that is technically correct and the news orgs are now referring to these countries that way""

Hungary was never a part of the USSR ( Union of Soviet Socialist States ) neither was Poland, nor Czechoslovakia, nor Romania or Bulgaria. These countries were members of the Warsaw Pact. Political freedom was snatched away after 1945 but the locals resisted. Many Hungarians were killed in the 1956 Budapest uprising against the Soviet regime. The Czechs also rose up in 1968. The Poles had an uprising in Poznan and then a long and eventually successful labour orientated uprising through Solidarity. Very dangerous and very tense - thankfully Mr Gorbachov was rather more liberal than his predecessors.


"Old habits die hard."

Time to wake up -the Worlds a changing fast.

How should I view the good old US&A - does it belong to the Native Indians, is it a colony of Britain and France, Is Alaska Russian, Is Texas Mexican - of course not - you might want to revise your thinking.

Regards