The aircraft is a joint venture with wing manufacturer La société Ellipse who market it as the Ellipse Alizé. It is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.[1][2]
The Alizés is a very simple nanotrike and is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 10 m (32.8 ft) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a single cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, 22 hp (16 kW) Zenoah G25 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 72 kg (159 lb) and a gross weight of 170 kg (375 lb), giving a useful load of 98 kg (216 lb). With full fuel of 10 litres (2.2 imp gal; 2.6 US gal) the payload is 91 kg (201 lb).[1]
Due to its single seat configuration and "niche appeal", the aircraft has not sold in large numbers.[1]
Model sold in the mid-2010s by wing manufacturer La société Ellipse, with the Fuji 16 cable-braced wing and powered by a Cors-Air 24 hp (18 kW) engine. Reviewer Dimitri Delemarle described it as "a versatile wing, easy for a new pilot to handle yet rewarding to fly".[3]
Ellipse Titan CX Alizé
Model sold in the mid-2010s by wing manufacturer La société Ellipse, with the Ellipse Titan CX strut-braced wing and powered by a Cors-Air 24 hp (18 kW) engine, or starting in 2014, a Swissauto motor.[3]