Yeah I agree the R is not much more than an LSA, and I had a chance to find out what the useful load is for one and edited my post accordingly.

I really think this Ecoflyer is a dangerous and misleading design. Buying an LSA with the idea of carrying anything in it besides yourself is not a prudent way to advertise one. Some guy with a light sport ticket is going to overload one with his kayak, bicycle, picnic table and bed mentioned in the website ad and the cause of his death will be the design as much as his own stupidity.

Experience generally shows that if you build a dangerous machine someone will quickly find a way to die in it, and to some extent the designer is liable no matter how many warnings they place on it. I think this airplane design is really asking for trouble, period. It seems to blatantly ignore one of the most common causes of small airplane crashes, which is overloading in the summer months- exactly what they are advertising the airplane for.