Horsepower required for level flight question...

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:26:00 -0500, Bryan Martin wrote:

in article , Darrel Toepfer
at wrote on 3/27/04 1:49 PM:

BllFs6 wrote:

Am I right in the main disadvantage of a powered glider is long take
off rolls
and lack of fancy aerobatics? Other considerations I am missing?

4 to 6 seat capacity comes to my mind (needs/wants)...

How about 13?

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap26.htm

Sure doesn't look like a powered glider to me.

If you are looking for a large capacity powered glider, the ME-323 is the
closest I can think of - accommodation for 120 passengers. But it would
never have shut down the engines and glided, so it doesn't really fit the
current understanding of those terms.

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/me323.html
http://www.flight-history.com/plane_stats/acModelView.php?makeId=40&makeName=Messerschmitt&m odelId=402

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4 to 6 seat capacity comes to my mind (needs/wants)...

Nuts to that. Tell them to get their own motorglider.

Bill Daniels

Kevin Horton wrote:

Sure doesn't look like a powered glider to me.

If you are looking for a large capacity powered glider, the ME-323 is the
closest I can think of - accommodation for 120 passengers. But it would
never have shut down the engines and glided, so it doesn't really fit the
current understanding of those terms.

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/me323.html
http://www.flight-history.com/plane_stats/acModelView.php?makeId=40&makeName=Messerschmitt&m odelId=402

Thats the one I was thinking of, couldn't remember its name though.
Thanks... Before they put the engines on it, they used 3 twin engined
planes to tow that whale into the sky...

Even had rocket assisted takeoff modes:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/me321.html

The tow plane:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/me321.html