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Equator Aircraft Norway SA (registered in Norway at brreg.no) is a consortium of idealists who believe in aviation- innovation and development toward a new and better future in the GA industry. Using well known industrial design strategies in our work we arrive at new exciting concepts where aircraft are designed to be more accessible, practical, less expensive and easier to use. This development process takes both lots of time, and of course money. The Equator Aircraft Norway Crew put down thousands of hours every year without wages and put personal funds into the project to realize our dreams. In our consortium we want developers all over the world to contribute to our system, we believe in an open, and idealistic approach where each member can apply a small amount of resources and see their dreams come alive along with ours. This is a new way of financing a project with large amounts of intellectual currency and some private and sponsored finances.

To date we have 6 different levels of membership involvement that will grant members exclusive rights to the aircraft and system as a whole. Please choose the membership level you prefer based on your wished level of involvement or contribution. All levels can be combined to the extent it fits your wishes.

Read about the various levels on our membership and sponsors page for more info on how to get involved in the Equator System.

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By Tomas Brodreskift
June 11, 2011

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aRGie Project at HiBu finished

The Six person group of ambitious students from HiBu (Buskerud University College) finished their Retractable Gear Design Study this week. The project has been a great addition to the innovative parts developed for the EQP2. The Retractable Gear Concept was sleek, lightweight, needs little space and is “Rugged” in it´s appearance and total design. The design is to such a degree particular that we do not wish to disclose the details until the system is put on the P2 in a years time.

Here is the Summary of the Thesis from the group:

“The thesis was given to us from Equator Aircraft Norway SA (EAN). The company is in the early stages of establishing themselves as a competitor in the aviation industry, with their new ground breaking amphibious aircraft design.

Our assignment was to develop a retractable gear system for their new amphibious aircraft EqP2 Excursion. In our task we should come up with a new design specially fitted for their aircraft. Included in the task was setting up an overview of requirements to the aviation industry, analysis of materials that can be used and calculations on the system.

Our motivation was firstly driven by the challenge of making a construction for an interesting and cool aircraft concept with a new vision of flying. We must also admit that we saw the possibility to get a free flight with the future aircraft.

In the requirement specification, we created use cases describing real life scenarios of the applications the RG system is supposed to perform. In this way, we were able to identify the customer needs, the functions the system must have, and the environment in which the system must be able to operate. We stretched the requirements outside of what we would be able to accomplish during the project, because our employers wished to have a full-defined requirement list to be used after our project.

During the brainstorming phase, we came up with several concepts in cooperation with EAN. After choosing one final concept for the front and rear RG, we started the construction of a prototype in plaster which EAN printed out from our design in Solidworks. We encountered difficulties to actuate this prototype and had to make a second prototype, which has the possibility to be actuated by an electrical motor.

When the design and development phase of the project was completed, we committed ourselves to the more technical part of the assignment. Calculations both electrical and mechanical test and reports and analysis in software was performed.”

We thank the students for the good cooperation and look forward to developing more projects at HiBu in the future. Link to their own project page is in the side bar on the right.

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By Tomas Brodreskift
June 9, 2011

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Equator User Interface Design

Another Student Project in the works. Human Machine Interface Design is one of our major fields of focus, and is in fact what will make the EQp2 so unique.

Manuel Radziwill is a student that will pull the research that is already on the table and combine these items with the new exciting developments in smart pads going on in his master thesis.

Info on the student and the project:

Name Manuel Radziwill

Institution Technische Universität Berlin

Field of Study Aerospace Engineering

Major Subject Human Machine Interaction

“As a student of aerospace engineering with HMI as major field of study and a special interest in interaction design, the subject of my project is focused on the interaction between future LSA pilots and the detachable touch screen concept of the EQP2. The challenge is to create a user-friendly, intuitive and appealing interface based on usability investigations of current General Aviation Electronic Flight Instrument Systems. Therefore, in cooperation with the institute for human-machine systems at the Technical University of Berlin, a tablet-linked flight simulator is to be constructed and evaluated to determine the requirements for such a system. With these, a new design approach is intended, which matches the EQP2 concept.”

 

 

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By Tomas Brodreskift
May 4, 2011

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