Infinity II Light Sport Aircraft Official Video

Infinity II was a dream to design an unconventional style of canard-pusher configuration aircraft envisioned by two undergraduate students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Manu Sharma and George Angelidis. The aircraft design project soon became a design challenge to meet mission requirements as set forth by Prof. Snorri Gudmundsson, former Chief Aerodynamicist, Cirrus Aircraft Company.

Infinity II is an elegant canard-pusher aircraft design, where aesthetics and performance was not compromised at any instance of the preliminary design process. As a result, Infinity II has evolved into a multi-purpose LSA certifiable aircraft, which not only can meet reconnaissance mission requirements over the Galapagos Islands but also could be used for personal use also. Preliminary flight simulations of Infinity II show that it has impressive flight handling qualities with very good maneuverability. Infinity II seats 2 passengers side by side in a canard-pusher configuration, which has not yet been successfully attempted in the similar style airplanes previously.

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[CanardAircraft]

"Infinity II seats 2 passengers side by side in a canard-pusher configuration, which has not yet been successfully attempted in the similar style airplanes previously."

what about Cozy 3, and Mark 4, Velocity, Defiant, ERacer, Bumerangue and numerous other variations...don't know what these "students" were studying, seems like they copied a lot of proven designs and called it a "new" design....lol or the uploader has limited knowledge of canards.....no offence intended..

[manu2790]

@CanardAircraft This is LSA certifiable 1320 LBS gorss weight category we are talking about. And there are very few designs if not at all in same category. Cozy 3 has about 2,000 lbs gross weight, I am sure Velocity is even heavier, Defiant is 1,700 lbs empty weight!, . For the requirements that were given to us, none of the existing aircraft fits perfectly. And ofcourse, for a first aircraft design for students, there were lot of inspiration taken from the existing ones.

[manu2790]

@CanardAircraft Also, your comment is very appropriate from your perspective but from an preliminary enginereing design aspect assuming the knowledge of all the mission requirements, lot of internal things change that are not easily visible to the viewers.

[erickcf18]

Flightgear 2.0 yeahhhhh

[CanardAircraft]

I have been reading your pdf paper and found it to be very impressive, is there a working prototype? I would be interested to learn if there is or will be any commercial interests in this aircraft i.e is this aircraft in production or likely to be in the future?

I am sure if this is made available it will surely be very popular...