On 5/7/2013 4:38 AM, Evan Ludeman wrote:
On Monday, May 6, 2013 8:53:10 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
From "Gliding International", May-June 2013, page 57, paragraph 3



"It is not commonly known that there have been three known Lithium
batteries (sic) fires within an airborne sailplane producing two
fatalities."

And a couple of pages later there's a brief article extolling the
virtues of helium for restoring old gelcoat attributed, of all
people, to Tom Knauff. Oh, and a full page ad for that idiotic VTOL
electric pipe dream from Joby. Was this to be a special April 1
issue?

Okay, so no one bats 1000. But the unsourced FUD on batteries is
particularly annoying.

My Google search for "lithium battery fire sailplane or glider" found
only references to model sailplanes. I'd expect any fire in a glider to
show up on the internet somewhere, especially with a fatality as a result.

So, still unreferenced.

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