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Old March 20th 17, 08:29 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default All US Records are Now Motor Glider Records

On Monday, 20 March 2017 06:46:06 UTC+2, jfitch wrote:
15m and standard category still exist and are effectively motor free - but no one is making record attempts in them either.



Virtually all 15m class world records are flown by 18m motorgliders that have been installed with 15m wingtips (I bet record flight attempt is only instance these gliders have been flown with short tips). But as I said before, very long record flight attemps are possible only with motorgliders. There is no way to get up in the wave, probably to some remote start point, and still have option to motor back for another start attempt if first fails. Without engine you are sitting on the outlanding field after first glide and thinking of switching hobbies to golf.