John,

One of the best soaring related articles I have read in a long time!

You ask about a military application for thermal detectors. I seem to
remember reading somewhere that the US military is involved in exactly this
technology, to make their light UAV's able to stay airborne much longer on a
given amount of fuel/battery.

And you state that your ASW-27 will outfly any ETA if you had these modern
technologies. -But.... Then you'd have trouble with ETA's that also have the
gizmo's, right? Well, I guess that is what drives innovation, anyway.

Cheers,
Lars Peder
DG-600, Denmark



"John Cochrane" wrote in message
...
I wrote an article for Soaring, that will appear in the July issue.
Title: "Gizmo Future." A somewhat unusual view of the "what's in the
future for Soaring" kind of article. It's on my webpage if you just
can't wait for July,

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john...ers/gizmo.html

John Cochrane