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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:26:42 -0500, Knute Johnson wrote:

> On 10/3/2018 18:18, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:21:20 -0500, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> Martin are you still flying gliders?
>> 
>> Yes. I've not done nearly as much flying as I expected this year, but
>> am intending do more and better in 2019. My Std Libelle had some mods:
>> I moved the pitot from fin to nose to keep the type certificate holder
>> happy, replumbed the TE probe, fixed ancient undocumented damage to the
>> undercarriage, sorted out radio problems and cleared an AD this year,
>> but the glider is now in good shape for next year.
>> 
>> Curiosity: why do you ask?
> 
> I was just curious if you were still flying.  I've been thinking about
> going down to Boerne, TX and flying gliders again.  I'm living in
> central Texas now and the weather here should be fabulous for soaring
> and there isn't much going on.  I've been thinking of trading my Cub for
> a motor glider but I can't find one I fit in (too tall!).

I can't help there: the only motor glider I've flown in is the Scheibe 
SF-25 and I imagine you wouldn't want one of those. The new things 
creeping over the horizon are the latest generation of self-launchers - 
pretty nice, composite structure airframes with choice of motive power:
electric or petrol engines with propellers and some jets. These have 
starting to appear at my club in the last year or two though most of then 
are 'turbos', not self-launch. The one to drool over, in my opinion 
anyway, is the Antares 20E, a 20m span self-launcher with wings full of 
batteries and the ability to take of and climb 10,000 ft - which 
translates into around 200 km get-home range assuming you've taken off 
and climbed 2000ft before shutting down, putting the motor away and 
starting to soar. These have been around long enough to start appearing 
on the used market. The resident example at my club as been around for a 
while and its owner doesn't seem likely to part with it, and is nice and 
quiet on take-off thanks to a big, 2m diameter), relatively slow turning 
prop.

If you do find a suitably comfortable self-launcher I'll be very 
interested to know what you get.  


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Martin    | martin at
Gregorie  | gregorie dot org

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  Re: Using OpenJFX with OpenJDK 11 without module path? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-10-02 16:09 -0500
    Re: Using OpenJFX with OpenJDK 11 without module path? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-10-02 21:30 +0000
      Re: Using OpenJFX with OpenJDK 11 without module path? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-10-02 23:52 +0000
        Changed to: Q for Martin Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-10-03 11:21 -0500
          Re: Changed to: Q for Martin Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-10-03 23:18 +0000
            Re: Changed to: Q for Martin Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-10-04 09:26 -0500
              Re: Changed to: Q for Martin Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-10-04 20:28 +0000

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