HA, There's an interesting article in the current S&G about a casual comp done in Italy, flown with the Silent Electro. Was this the world's first electric SLG? I know it proceeded things like the Antares by almost a decade.
Anyway, the innovation with the comp was that they were allowed to use the motor during the comp and motor runs were counted in the overall score. From memory, the Silent could do about 8000' of climbing with a full charge (on new batteries no doubt). So this would mean one launch and two or three retrieves which is pretty much all you need for most comp or safari flying. With an ultralight glider, you could probably do all the recharging overnight with Aldi solar panels. As far as noise levels go, the first electrics failed EASA noise level checks because they did not appear on the scale. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
