The prototype Apis E was not developed in house at AMS. It was built up
from an Apis 15 meter kit by a very talented electrical engineer in
Ljubljana, the capitol city of Slovenia. I saw the glider and met its
builder/designer at AERO'05 in Friedrichshafen last April. At that time
it had only flown twice. It now has over 35 flight on it. The prototype
did not look like one, it look like a well developed serial production
airframe. The quality of the motor instalation and cockpit was first
class, this is evident in the link I provided earlier.

One goal of my up comming visit to Slovenia is to look at what is being
done to get the Apis E into production. The two owner of AMS have been
to the last two SSA Convnetions and I believe they will be at the '06
Convention. The Convention organizers are looking into haveing a
presentation about electric launch, I expect that will be well
attended. Production plans and some delivery schedules should be made
public then.

Plans are for the production units to have USA made brushless DC
motors, thus having much better efficency than the prototype.

Robert Mudd




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