A bit more regarding Bruno Reith=99s Europathe confusion
about whether it is a Classic or an XS stems from the fact that Bruno
had access to the forward portion of a Classic which he sent off to the
folks who were fabricating his engine mount and cowlings to use as a
jigthe aircraft itself is an XS with the exception of his
unique engine installation and cowlings.
I pass along this text, written by Bruno back in 2007; unfortunately, I
can=99t seem to open the photos he=99d sent me:
> On Monday, September 24, 2007, at 02:44 AM, UVTReith@aol.com
<mailto:UVTReith@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> at present the plane is still in Tschech Republic at the Europa
Aircraft workshop.
> They made "fine trimming and correcting of my built", engine
installation, painting and interieur.
> I will pick it up (800 km drive to that location) on the 3rd of
Oktober.
>
> As the job "fine trimming and correcting of my built" was taking
longer than I thought, I dought that I can do the first go before winter
time. Still some works to do like instrument and com/nav installations,
final inspection etc. I will do this in the workshop on our airfield
now.
>
> smartBrabus:
> I used a firewall from a crashed Classic Europa, installed this to a
steel tube working frame, getting the XS cowlling and gave this to
ecofly. They are using the smart engines (all same sizes) for their
microlights FK9.
> For the Europa we used the same engine mounting frame but laminated
Aluplates in the front of the fuselage and we are using on the upper
mounts an u-shaped alu bar to keep the engine torques.
>
> The cowling is changed with smaller inlet for the water cooler and two
larger inlets for the turbo charger cooler and for the combined
airbox/heat exchanger for cabin heater.
>
> The 23 A/h gel accu isn't installed at present, we do this here after
instrument installations etc.
>
> More about this Europa plane later, but I have added some
pics.<image.tiff><image.tiff>
>
> There is however one bad point:
> It is nor quite sure, if Mercedes will produce this engine anymore.
> This engine was designed for the smart sport car and this production
was stopped.
> Maybe they will use this engine for the smart fourfour now, I don't
know.
>
> More info on that on www.ecofly.de <http://www.ecofly.de/> , they have
all information also in english, including manual and info about the
MIP-System. The TBO of this engine is 2.000 hour and will go up to 2.500
hours.
> I have of course also your wing cover with CreativeAir LED-nav. lights
and LED taillight.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Bruno
>
>
> <P1050733.JPG><P1050742.JPG>
> On Jan 23, 2019, at 3:51 AM, Roland <schmidtroland@web.de
<mailto:schmidtroland@web.de>> wrote:
>
<mailto:schmidtroland@web.de>>
>
> It's the Europa of Bruno Reith, the german Europa representative who
unfortunately died in 2015. It's (contrary to the Ad and AFAIK)
completely an XS Kit, not a Classic and is/was nicely finished from what
I have seen. The engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofly_M160
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofly_M160> is quite interesting from
an economical point of view and state of the art, however not very
popular.
>
> Regards
> Roland
> PH-ZTI
> XS TG 914
>
>
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=487198#487198
<http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=487198#487198>
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