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Old September 10th 19, 10:36 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Richard DalCanto
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Default Kawa rough landing?

On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-6, Tango Eight wrote:
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 11:09:12 AM UTC-4, Tango Eight wrote:
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 7:45:04 AM UTC-4, Peter F wrote:
At 08:05 10 September 2019, krasw wrote:
There has been FES selflauncher accident because powerplant failure and
one
really close call. They aren't any better.


Can you provide links to these incidents?

I would expect them to ba at least 1 order of magnitude better than the
traditional turbo.


https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re...relim&IType=LA


oh, and of course...
http://sustainableskies.org/two-batt...ng-sailplanes/

T8


The two battery fires you linked to were with old style battery packs, and from the information available from FES, the problems have been addressed. So why post this? Are you trying to scare pilots away from potentially safer electric options for some reason?