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September 20th 10, 01:06 PM
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solar glider video
On Sep 19, 11:39*pm, Marc Ramsey
wrote: At 02:18 20 September 2010, ContestID67 wrote: But what is the advantage of the motor in the tail? * I can think of one disadvantage - you can't retract it. A perfectly sensible configuration for an electric motorglider, saves the weight and complexity of the retraction mechanism, negligible drag with the propeller blades folded back. *The only surprise (to me, anyway) is that this setup hasn't shown up on any non-solar electric motorgliders, yet... Marc See: http://www.lange-aviation.com/htm/en...ntares_h3.html 
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