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Jet powered glider

I take it that he uses the non retractable engine as a sustainer. I wonder what the L/D is.

There is a glider at waikerie is SA with 3 jet engines. two are retractable. I think it took three years to design install and test.

The first flight of the Bonusjet self launching glider has occurred.

Another article, with photos, here.

Anybody care to take a stab a what an "aborted stall manoeuvre practice session" is?

My flying style often makes our CFI suicidal but this is something different.

Interesting hey, I could go and jump in the hang glider, or 'a' glider and go to FL10, but flying a sophisticated aircraft you're stuck to 5000ft. When I get my PPL I can fly the Jab into CTA area's (transponder) but not above 5000ft?? (legally)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17clkkKyIwc"

Serious question.. no offense indented..Would that have been a road accident or an aircraft accident if a fatality / serious injury had occurred?

19 Registered but I would think that having retractable gear and a stall above 45 KIAS they couldn't fit into LSA but could be registered under the 540kg MTOW.I think they look like something from the 21st rather than 20th Century. Not pretty but exciting and definitely not just another light aircraft.

I agree that thermals often rotate. I think that a left hand turn into the thermal is more likely to work.That is a thermal is more likely to rotate in a counter clockwise direction as view from above.

As somebody has already said, look for eagles.

Unfortunatly, recipricol's won't always work either. The heading held to allow for drift and turned 180 deg's will take you off course if your trying to return to where you started.And remember, the heading you were holding was wrong anyway, otherwise you wouldn't be off course.

These two Varezes are registered with 19 prefixes which, as I understand it, means that they are homebuilt LSAs.

What drugs are you on? They are ugly as sin. They just look wrong...

 

Also I'm not really sure of their stats but last time I watched one take off at archerfield it seemed to take almost the entire runway before it lifted off.

 

But I guess it takes all sorts ;)

These do not qualify as LSA because of the stall speed and they would be a hopeless tug as they have to fly too fast just to keep in the air and would be towing a glider beyond its max rough air speed IMO

I think the tug comments may have been may have been made "tongue in cheek".

The fastest two place LSA would have to be the Rutan VariEze. We have two at our airstrip and they move like rockets! We are thinking of rigging one up as a tug :big_grin:.

They are also , objectively, the best looking aircraft.

I practice slow flight (one or two knots above stall) every time I thermal. However, there is no requirement to do a HASLL. But the pilot should be competent in recovering from a spin - i.e. should have done about 30, or more, spin recoveries.

• The (apparently) ultimate competition low pass finishes.
   
  

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G'day Pete,I would have thought something that would run on AVGAS would be the go. Plenty of fuel available thru the fuel drain. But this may be too violatile.

 

We used Hexamine (solid fuel like a fire lighter) when I was in the army. This may be a bit more stable/safe. Anyway I'm not much help - I will be interested in further replies.

 

regards

I think Trangia is the best stove.

Wooo. After an extended money lacking break, I am finally getting back into gliding. I have moved to flying with Boonah Gliding Club, and in the last few weeks have flown both the ASK21 and ASK 13, and also experienced a cable break this morning on my very first ever auto tow take off.

 

Hows that for getting back into it?

 

Cheers,

 

Nathan

The 2011 Club and Sports Class Nationals will be held at Benalla from

10th-21st Jan 2011. Details of entry fees are still being finalised but all

details will appear on the website at

Gliding Club of Victoria - 2011 Club and Sports Class Nationals

Entries should be available around the beginning of May.

• My friend Bob takes his Jabiru J-160c for a fun flight to YWSG and back. On his return he is confronted by a situation that requires him to land on the grass left of runway 06. As a bunch of 'cowboys', who should know better, just pull a glider across an active runway without proper lookout of radio surveillance endangering other users of the airfield and in particular the pilot on late finals. Very shabby stuff.
   
   
  

 

 

 

 

 

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At our club we regularly tow gliders from the hangers down the runways (i.e. "backtrack"). I regularly have to wave these gliders off the runway. I cannot remember a situation when a got off the runway because they have seen an aircraft anywhere in the circuit. The reason is that it is quite difficult to see an aircraft from a motor vehicle.

Most of the posts here do not address another possible situation. The aircraft on final could have been a glider. As most of you will know the go around possibilities for a glider are very limited! (This is why you will rarely see a glider practicing touch and goes.)

When I tow gliders I carry a radio and make the standard calls ("Entering ...", "Backtracking ...", etc). The radio and calls serve to increase the situational awareness of myself and others.

The fact of the matter is that the landing from final to touchdown, without any extra steps, is the landing that has the lowest probability of an accident. Any deviation from the "standard" landing increases the probability of an accident. This is a safety issue.

I recently raised this issue with my club. Specifically I suggested that all vehicles towing gliders carry a radio. The club has hand held radios for this purpose. I got some support but not enough to prevail. I am going to bring this up again.

Puts my 300KM to shame! And they averaged 160 KM/hr even tho' they had to slow for rough air at one point ..... Bet their bums were sore at the finish!

I doubt that there butts where sore - they would have been frozen solid!