On 23 ago, 20:42, Kevin Christner wrote:
On Aug 23, 5:29*am, johngalloway wrote:

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT), Kevin Christner

wrote:
Anyone know if the ASH-30 is ever going to come off the drawing
board...? *It seems the EB-28 and EB-29 have the "long wing" open
class locked up. *The Antares/Nimbus (5?) shorter wing with reduced
wing area at 850kg may prove to be the right combination for Uvalde
2012.

The Antares wing, stretched to 23m, with an aspect ratio of 38.5 and
max wingloading of 58kg/m2 (11.9 lb/ft2) ought to be unbeatable in
good hands at Uvalde.

John Galloway

Corollary to the question: anyone have an update on Dick Butler's
Concordia project? *I seem to remember something about a 13lb+ wing
loading and 28m of wing...

KJC

In Szeged, Prof Loek Boermans said that the maximum wing loading of
the Concordia will be 62 kg/m2.

The name of the new "Nimbus 5" is Quintus!