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Old June 11th 20, 08:57 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Jim Payne set a two records (one new) yesterday - in a NIXUS

On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 7:35:48 AM UTC-7, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 7:21:19 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 9:10:51 AM UTC-5, 2G wrote:
What the hell is a Nixus?

https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3....l?dsId=7846872

Tom


https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2236661526587915


For anyone unfamiliar with this machine, it's the fuselage of an ASH-30 with new 28m 53.3/1 aspect ratio wings that use electric fly-by-wire full span flaperons.

Mike


A tip on the Nixus - if you are standing around when they want to assemble it, put your hands in your pockets and run away. It redefines what "heavy" means in a wing panel. But a very interesting machine.