There are several blogs and FB pages
See Sports News on the GFA site
http://www.glidingaustralia.org/GFA-Sport/Sports-News/
They are just about to start streaming today's briefing live on YouTube
Mandy
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For those interested the Finnish are streaming the daily World Gliding
Competition briefings live on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPwd2vcqhupoTh-NdpLRdfw
Today's has just finished but the briefings can be downloaded from this page
at any time
Mandy
Hi Mandy,
Many thanks for your input re how to link up with the current state of play.
I don't recall the exact details, but a few years ago, I do recall that for
Bruce Taylor, the penny dropped, and he stated that (from hard learned
experience), he was not from that point on, prepared to fly in
Hi Peter
I have just returned from a visit to the Schleicher factory where I checked on
the progress of the ASG 32 EL.
The designers have managed to bring the weight of the electric propulsion
system (including batteries) down
to the weight of the self launching rotary engine including
There are interesting times ahead…
I expect mainly when you have to change the batteries and discover
that the lifespan is not what you expected, nor is the replacement
price.
I heard a horror story last week from the owner of a Toyota Priapsis
which had a failed battery. The cost of
Looking at the ASH and ASH25Mi data on the
Schleicher website the rotary engine installation
is 110Kg. For the ASG32/ASG32Mi this seems to be
80 Kg. It may be that the wing structure for the
25 needs extra strength hence weight for the
motor and the ASG32 already is designed for it.
To
