REVO Trike Video Pilot Report, Flying Evolution Trikes REVO at the Copperstate Fly In.

www.ultralightf... - REVO Pilot Report video, Flying the Evolution Trikes REVO at the Copperstate Fly In. Like other start-up success stories, this tale has a familiar beginning.
"It all started with two guys, Abid Farooqui and Larry Mednick," begins the history lesson. The two started flying trikes a decade ago after discovering they preferred weight-shift control to conventional aircraft where each had started.
They didn't start out as partners.Farooqui wanted to run a flight school and Mednick, who'd given up freestyle jet skiing and street bike riding, just wanted to fly trikes.
Their learning experiences left each of them upside- down hanging by their seatbelts after a mishap that slowly but surely shaped the design that was evolving in their minds.
As the duo researched trikes, Farooqui discovered the Apollo Delta Jet. "It was the most amazing trike I'd ever seen," remembers Farooqui. After contacting the company that made it in Hungary, they were stunned to find out it was discontinued because the company had replaced it with something newer.
But Delta Jet proved to have problems, so the duo kept working on it. By the time they were satisfied, they had made 62 changes to the original machine. Even the manufacturer was impressed. It was clear they needed to get more involved with the manufacturing.
He became involved with the Light-Sport ASTM standards committee, which finally resulted in Farooqui certifying the Delta Jet as the third-ever SLSA trike.
Mednick traveled to Hungary and created the first generation of the Monsoon trike that evolved into the Revo. A long list of features was compiled from trike flyers all over the world. Mednick tested the new model, then known as the Fusion, for hundreds of hours and loved almost everything about it. Almost everything...
More changes resulted in the Monsoon, which was certified SLSA in the USA and laid claim to being the most popular model sold in '08 in the United States. By late '07 there was actually a waiting list to get a Monsoon. Farooqui and Mednick had a product that trike pilots liked, but their manufacturer couldn't supply enough of them. This finalized the decision to build a true 100% all-American-built trike. They never wanted to be in that situation again.
About this time, Farooqui and Mednick met the owner of Powrachute, the largest manufacturer of powered parachutes with more than 1,500 aircraft flying worldwide. Powrachute indicated strong interest in the project and they could supply technologies such as CNC-cut parts and chromoly welded frames.
Farooqui and Mednick drew from the experience of Bill Brooks, the revered designer of the Pegasus Quik trike wing that was the first to reach 100 mph. "Brooks explained the concepts that made his wing unique," said Farooqui. "We listened, and listened hard, while Brooks explained almost every concept of what we needed to do to make such a special wing."
All specifications and flight characteristics demanded for the Revo were met and the wing was now ready for serial production.
The name Evolution Trikes derives from the long evolution of aircraft that preceded the Revo. Each trike before it was evolving into what is now called the Revo, which is short for Revolutionary.
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