Hi Ewald, the Everest Parajet is extremely specialized for high altitude flying. I should point out that it is not designed to be an everyday machine. The engine is 250cc, it is a rotary wankel type with a single rotor, I have fuel injected and supercharged the engine to produce nearly 100hp. The complete unit weighs 38kg, it has electric start and an onboard generator. The engine is run by an ECU so it is completely computer managed and automatically compensating for altitude. By using a baro sensor and manifold pressure the ECU can control exactly how much fuel goes in. We will be introducing a non-supercharged version shortly which will produce about 80kg of thrust at 8000rpm with 100% zero engine vibration and low noise (as it is a rotary) it will be an absolute dream to fly. This maybe your answer…..this unit will weight 28kg (inc electric start), with Titanium frame and excellent fuel consumption of only 3 litres per hour. The price of this Rotary unit will be £4100, where as the price of my current production units is £3800. You can see these on Parajet website. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

All the best, Gilo

Hi Yoshi and thank you for your comments, I am still fine tuning the machine at the moment and it has spent much of this week in a hypobaric chamber be tested up to 35,000 ft it’s all great fun!!!! Being married is the best fun I’ve ever had by the way!!!

Hi Joe….we’d love to have lots of us up there…but each machine is such a huge amount of work that it’s unrealistic given the budget and timescale to replicate such complicated machines anymore times!!! These are quite possibly the most powerful internal combustion engines ever made for their weight and certainly their high altitude capability....I wish I had time to build more but there’s just not enough time….brilliant idea though!!

Hi Kathy, to take off you simply connect the paraglider wing the Parajet harness that’s worn on your back like a rucksack, you then take a few steps backwards to fill the wing with air and as you do so the wing will lift skyward and float over your head…..at that moment you just spin around on your feet 180 degrees….now running with the wing flying above your head and flick the starter motor on…then rev up the engine and you’ll be blown clean of your feet in a few steps…it’s incredible fun and easy to learn….to master the takeoff technique takes a few days at most and the flying bit is as easy or as technical as you want it to be…depending on how you want to fly it!! To land simply switch of the engine….glide in and pull hard on both control lines that lead to the trailing edge of the wing…this slows it down sufficiently for you to literally step onto the ground. It’s the purest form of powered flight in the world and anyone can learn to fly with no license necessary.

Thanks for your support Will