...stablished around year 2000. So Jim R knew many pilots.
Sometimes the pilots practice airplane landing, even sailplane landings. Sailplane was towed by a vehicle, then...
...here was another incident in Florida where a sailplane purposefully flew into a gagg...hang glider (who deployed his chute) and the sailplane landed with damaged control s...re was some karma that soon caught up to the sailplane pilot though ...]
Remembe...
...ime i get the desire to build my own idea of a soaring trike.(trike only) Ive been involved with it before and for awhile i was designing my own sailplane rc kits. but i like tinkering...
...kids in this movie (too low, too gusty!) The idea is to power up to soaring height, then shut off the engine and soar- same as a self launching sailplane.
Links:
Swedish Aerosp...
The Duo has a big but not inordinately so wingspan of 22 meters. At just over 600 pounds empty weight, it doesn't have to work that hard at lifting itself. With more than 1500 solar cells on the wings and tail, the Sunseeker Duo can put out 25kW of power and stay aloft for as l...