Andor Holtsmark wrote:
At 17:12 04 June 2006, Eric Greenwell wrote:
While this discussion (which I continue below) is an
interesting one, it
mostly side-steps the RAS response to the announcement
that Lange will
offer an 18 M glider with a gas engine sustainer:

Disappointment.

-To me the disappointing thing is that so much of the
discussion seems to be focused on the motorization
of the self-sustainer version of the Antares 18. There
is a lot more to that aircraft than a way to get home
once you run out of thermals.

But what does it bring us that was not already available from four other
manufacturers? The 20E brought us something we could not get before, and
that excited us, and we are envious of the pilots that will have them.
I'm sure the 18 meter glider with it's gas sustainer engine will be a
fine glider, but a lot of us were expecting and hoping for something
unique from Lange.

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