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the trend is............MOTORGLIDERS
out of 100 ASG29 delivered 60 are motorgliders 90 pct of DG built are motorgliders HPH Ltd will sell jets gliders to every lawyer and dentist! Schempp-Hirth is doing nothing..... Rolladen-Schneider out of business! Lots of Sinuses, Tauruses, Apises all motorgliders....... nothing else relevant worldwide!!! ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? Daniel Scopel Silent 2 Targa C-GODY serial 2027 Volez souvent et soyez prudent. http://pages. videotron. com/dscopel/ |
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At 08:45 18 October 2008, Dan Silent wrote:
the trend is............MOTORGLIDERS out of 100 ASG29 delivered 60 are motorgliders 90 pct of DG built are motorgliders HPH Ltd will sell jets gliders to every lawyer and dentist! Schempp-Hirth is doing nothing..... Rolladen-Schneider out of business! Lots of Sinuses, Tauruses, Apises all motorgliders....... nothing else relevant worldwide!!! ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? Daniel Scopel Silent 2 Targa C-GODY serial 2027 Volez souvent et soyez prudent. http://pages. videotron. com/dscopel/ In what sense are Schemmp-Hirth (who build more gliders than anyone else) "doing nothing"?? |
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"Dan Silent" wrote in message ... the trend is............MOTORGLIDERS out of 100 ASG29 delivered 60 are motorgliders 90 pct of DG built are motorgliders HPH Ltd will sell jets gliders to every lawyer and dentist! Schempp-Hirth is doing nothing..... Rolladen-Schneider out of business! Lots of Sinuses, Tauruses, Apises all motorgliders....... nothing else relevant worldwide!!! ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? Daniel Scopel Silent 2 Targa C-GODY serial 2027 Volez souvent et soyez prudent. http://pages. videotron. com/dscopel/ Yes, I'm afraid so. Little-known key components of the pure glider are words in all caps, ellipses, and exclamation points. It's suspected that the sudden scarcity of these components (and thus the inability to build pure gliders) is the result of posters on Usenet exhausting the supply. Tim Ward |
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On Oct 18, 4:11*pm, "Tim Ward" wrote:
ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? You just wouldn't listen to the Militant Band of 1-26 Pilots, would you?!?!?!? Of course, aluminum and fabric "pure" gliders should be around for a long, long time...look at the precedent already set by tube-n-fabric power planes! When the last electron stops spinning, the savvy 1-26 pilot flies on with calibrated posterior, a Winter or Sage mechanical vario...and a Replogle barograph... C'mon, you'll love being the pilot of an "antique fiberglass slipper" when the pure glider is "extinct." Embrace the past...it actually IS your future! -Pete #309 insert diobolical laugh here for melodramatic effect |
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insert diobolical laugh here for melodramatic effect Now I'm trying to remember where I put that damn turn point camera... |
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On the Contrary.
Schleicher also make successful self launch and sustainer motor powered gliders - as you note. Schempp-hirth has an interest in Lange Aviation, and is working on a number of innovative power plants. There is a Jet sustainer Ventus available, the Oehler propeller sustainers are popular and I assume we can look forward to electrical propulsion some time soon. They do not produce a self launch version of Discus and Duo Discus. In a lot of places, like where I fly the self launch can get marginal with high density altitude. I went with a sustainer engine, because I can see where the market is going, but in many ways I would prefer the pure glider. At the same price I could chose between a heavy handling self launcher, a somewhat cheaper ultralight self launcher with lower performance and a DuoDiscus with sustainer. Many options all of them finding customers. . Dan Silent wrote: the trend is............MOTORGLIDERS out of 100 ASG29 delivered 60 are motorgliders 90 pct of DG built are motorgliders HPH Ltd will sell jets gliders to every lawyer and dentist! Schempp-Hirth is doing nothing..... Rolladen-Schneider out of business! Lots of Sinuses, Tauruses, Apises all motorgliders....... nothing else relevant worldwide!!! ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? Daniel Scopel Silent 2 Targa C-GODY serial 2027 Volez souvent et soyez prudent. http://pages. videotron. com/dscopel/ |
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Let us be careful not to propagate the myth that aeroplanes fitted with
engines are gliders. Jim At 07:52 19 October 2008, Bruce wrote: On the Contrary. Schleicher also make successful self launch and sustainer motor powered gliders - as you note. Schempp-hirth has an interest in Lange Aviation, and is working on a number of innovative power plants. There is a Jet sustainer Ventus available, the Oehler propeller sustainers are popular and I assume we can look forward to electrical propulsion some time soon. They do not produce a self launch version of Discus and Duo Discus. In a lot of places, like where I fly the self launch can get marginal with high density altitude. I went with a sustainer engine, because I can see where the market is going, but in many ways I would prefer the pure glider. At the same price I could chose between a heavy handling self launcher, a somewhat cheaper ultralight self launcher with lower performance and a DuoDiscus with sustainer. Many options all of them finding customers. . Dan Silent wrote: the trend is............MOTORGLIDERS out of 100 ASG29 delivered 60 are motorgliders 90 pct of DG built are motorgliders HPH Ltd will sell jets gliders to every lawyer and dentist! Schempp-Hirth is doing nothing..... Rolladen-Schneider out of business! Lots of Sinuses, Tauruses, Apises all motorgliders....... nothing else relevant worldwide!!! ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? Daniel Scopel Silent 2 Targa C-GODY serial 2027 Volez souvent et soyez prudent. http://pages. videotron. com/dscopel/ |
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As a bottom feeder in the economic food chain, when all gliders that
are flying are motorgliders, I'll be looking at all the pictures I took when I used to be able to fly a non-powered sailplane. Since it will be somewhat impossible for me to ever afford a powered sailplane. No complaints, just an honest asessment. Brad |
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:18:10 -0700, Brad wrote:
As a bottom feeder in the economic food chain, when all gliders that are flying are motorgliders, I'll be looking at all the pictures I took when I used to be able to fly a non-powered sailplane. Since it will be somewhat impossible for me to ever afford a powered sailplane. No complaints, just an honest asessment. Move near to a winching site and you'll have the last laugh as fuel prices go sky high. I know places where you can winch straight into wave.... -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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Since two years I own an ASW 28-18E and since May I have a share in an
ASH 26E. My experience is that I get more pure gliding hours today than I did 2 years ago when I was flying my good old H304 (which I flew for 20 years). If you can afford it, SSG/SLG will certainly give you more pure gliding hours than a pure glider. "Cheating"? Certainly, but it comes with age I think. When I was 20 I could not belive that 30 years later I will be flying a glider with a noisy engine on my back and that - most terrible of all - there will be a slight smell of gasoline in the cockpit. At that time it was quite common to make 2 outlandings on teh same day. SSG/SLG is a good thing for those of us that wants to glide more because now we can afford it. Certainly pure gliders is certainly not on the brink of extinction! But for some of us fortunate guys who can afford it, today we have SSG and SLG to make life easier. Robert ASW28-18E RD ASH 26E JA (and former owner of a Jantar Std, ASW 19B and a beautiful Glasflügel 304) Dan Silent skrev: the trend is............MOTORGLIDERS out of 100 ASG29 delivered 60 are motorgliders 90 pct of DG built are motorgliders HPH Ltd will sell jets gliders to every lawyer and dentist! Schempp-Hirth is doing nothing..... Rolladen-Schneider out of business! Lots of Sinuses, Tauruses, Apises all motorgliders....... nothing else relevant worldwide!!! ARE PURE GLIDERS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? Daniel Scopel Silent 2 Targa C-GODY serial 2027 Volez souvent et soyez prudent. http://pages. videotron. com/dscopel/ |
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