Silence Microlight
Kit or Factory Built All specifications E&OE
| | Imperial | Metric | | Wingspan | 24’ 7¼” | 7.5 m | | Length | 20’ 3¼” | 6.18 m | | Wing area | 93.86 sqft | 8.72 m2 | | Elevator span | 9’ 2¼” | 2.8 m | | Elevator area | 17.76 sq ft | 1.65 m2 | | Empty weight | 462 lb | 210 kg | | Max take off weight | 750 lb | 340 kg | | Fuel capacity | 21 US gal | 80 litre | | Endurance (approximate) | 700 nm | 1300 km | | Engine (Jabiru 2200) | 80 hp | 60 kw | | Max Speed (VNE) | 162 kts | 300 km/h | | Climb performance | 1669 ft/min | 8.5 m/s | | Certified load factor | 5g +ve, 4g -ve | | | Landing gear | Fixed | Optional electric retract | 
The Silence is a new design from Germany. Based on the Spitfire it is a single place, low wing composite aircraft using modern composite construction methods. With a Jabiru 80 hp, 4 cylinder engine the Silence has optional electric flaps, undercarriage and an innovative constant speed propellor. The Silence is available as a factory complete aircraft or customer-built kit. Construction is a mixture of Nomex Honeycomb with glass, aramid and carbon laminates in epoxy. In the kit version the fuselage, flying and control surfaces are largely complete, so the builder is not faced with completing complex shapes. Silence provides a number of options which include electric retracting undercarriage and flap operation, advanced constant speed propellor, ballistic recovery parachute system and much more. |
