On Mar 3, 1:09*pm, stokiko wrote:
On 3 mrt, 20:35, GM wrote:

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 1:18:35 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
Ran accross this nice clip on YouTube posted by the Bacchus Marsh Soaring group in Australia. At 3:11, a wing-mounted camera shows a glider I can't identify. It looks like a side-by-side glass ship with a conventional tail.
Just curious what that glider is.
Thanks,
GM

oops - the link didn't make it! Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQp12...&context=C31b5...

It is the one and only es-65 Platypus by Edmund Schneider, who also
designed the ESGhttp://www.gliding-in-melbourne.org/platypus.htm

Sensibly using low tow too, I see.

Mike