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Old February 7th 21, 06:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default What is involved regulation wise adding an electric motor to a glider?

On 2/5/21 6:31 PM, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
but there is no way I'd trust my life to the continued operation of a
tightly-wound two-stroke motor. I didn't think I'd mess around with
motorgliders at all until brushless motors and Lithium batteries came
along. Now I think that electric motorgliders are poised to become the
core of our sport, with pure sailplanes becoming more of a fringe activity.


if you're trusting your life to the operation of any motorglider engine,
you're screwing up bigtime. Electrics can and do fail, right along with
the others.