It had an air cooled 113 kW (152 hp) Renault Bengali Junior inverted four cylinder inline engine in the nose, driving a two blade, variable pitch propeller.

The Rafale's two seats were in tandem, one over the wing and the other just behind the trailing edge, under a long (about a third of the fuselage length), narrow multi-framed canopy with a blunt, vertical windscreen and sliding access.

Behind the canopy a long fairing continued its profile to the straight tapered, round tipped vertical tail.

Its wheels were on vertical, slender aerofoil section legs from the wings and were largely enclosed within magnesium alloy fairings.

On 8 July Rafales took the first three places in the Angers 12 hour event[5] and later that month filled the top six Esders Cup positions.