Unusual Sighting (What was that?)

I concur with Roger. I don't believe the J-5 Marco
(http://tinyurl.com/38qamk) was ever intended to be considered a
motor-glider. (I believe the official US term is "self-launched glider".)
The wings would need to be extended to 13+ meters.

In order to make the J-5 as efficient as possible, many sailplane design
characteristics were employed. (full span flaperons, single retractable gear
option, spoilers, molded composite construction, etc)

The Flight Design CT is also a very clean aircraft. If your landing
approach is a bit fast, you will float the full length of the runway. I
have often thought that adding spoilers to the CT would solve the this.

"V" tail sailplane designs were common in the 1960s.
(http://tinyurl.com/27esfn and http://tinyurl.com/2w6fuk) I was surprised
to see the design reappear in UAVs.

Wayne
HP-14 N990
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder
W7ADK




"Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:23:23 -0800, wright1902glider
wrote:

Why? Well, it was slower than the Diamonds, was relatively small, and
had a
V-tail.

What was that thing?


Probably some sort of motorglider. I've seen both pusher and tractor

With a 16:1 glide ratio? My 3100 # Deb is well better than that.

prop motorgliders with a V-tail with an aft fuselage that looks like
the Diamond series.

It looks like a fast ultralight that would quallify for sport plane.

Roger (K8RI)


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN

Harry Frey