plantain wrote, On 5/16/2013 1:52 PM:
On Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:41:44 AM UTC+9:30, Eric Greenwell wrote:


I like the idea of starting the motor before you have to commit to using

it. There is a glider with an enclosed, internal gasoline engine - the

Stemme - but it can't be started independently of propeller operation,

and the drive shaft is a difficult technical problem requiring the side

by side seating. The Albastar has a substantial engine of 65 hp, and the

use of using a generator/electric motor for power transmission to the

propeller gives it a lot of flexibility in design the Stemme did not have.



The original LS8-t did just that - engine could be started before the prop extended.

How did the exhaust get out of the glider? Was the engine fixed in
place, and only the propeller and mast went up?

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