On 10/17/2012 10:39 AM, waremark wrote:
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:11:53 AM UTC+1, Eric Greenwell
wrote:


I do not currently fly turbine powered gliders, but I plan to

do so in a year or two.

Do you, Eric? What might tempt you out of the ASH 26?

A turbine powered, self-launching DuckHawk (variously called "JetHawk"
or "Jet DuckHawk") would be very tempting. Two are under construction,
with first flights likely early next year. Power-on climb performance
should be awesome, but Windward hasn't released any performance figures
yet.

Other companies are planning, or at least contemplating, self-launching
jets, so I think there will be at least a couple opportunities to fly a
jet self-launcher in the next two years, so I hope it only takes logbook
endorsement to be legal.

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