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Old July 24th 09, 05:19 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Craig[_2_]
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Default would an electric sustainer be practical

On Jul 24, 9:00*am, brianDG303 wrote:
On Jul 23, 10:15*pm, Marc Ramsey
wrote:

At 02:04 24 July 2009, Dave Nadler wrote:


On Jul 23, 9:20=A0pm, Brad *wrote would an electric sustainer be practical...


Sadly, no. See:
http://www.nadler.com/Antares/Lange_visit_20090410.html


See ya, Dave "YO electric sometimes-18m-shorty"


Happily, not everyone agrees, see:


http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/dg1000te-e.html


Marc


Of course the most interesting detail was that DG was able to get
German government support to help develop this project.


You might look to see what Greg Cole is doing with electric for the
Sparrowhawk. The Apis isn't quite as light, but it's closer to that
than to the Antares.

Craig