It was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg).
It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The Tedlar-covered single surface wing is a French La Mouette Topless M design that uses an internal Kevlar cross-bar reinforcement in place of a kingpost and ground wires.
The lower flying wires are retained, however, giving the aircraft a load rating of +6/-3g.
[2][3] The lack of the kingpost and associated cables allows the Samba a top speed of 93 km/h (58 mph) on only 16 kW (21 hp) of power provided by a Zenoah G-25 single cylinder, two stroke powerplant.