On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:51:22 +0200, cernauta wrote:

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:39:19 +0000, Marc Ramsey
wrote:


A perfectly sensible configuration for an electric motorglider, saves
the weight and complexity of the retraction mechanism, negligible drag
with the propeller blades folded back. The only surprise (to me,
anyway) is that this setup hasn't shown up on any non-solar electric
motorgliders,

somewhere, I've seen a proposal for a motorglider with the prop in the
same position, driven by a traditional engine (in the fuselage) via
hydraulic transmission (pump, hi-pressure lines all the way to the top
of the tail, propeller).

There's also the Windex 1200 http://www.windex.se It is a motor glider
with a conventional motor mounted on front of the fin in a tractor
configuration and the same claimed glide performance as a Standard
Cirrus. It seems to have become commercial rather than a home build in
1999.

Does anybody know why they chose that configuration?
The website stopped being updated in 2001. Has anything happened since?
Has anybody seen one in the flesh?


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