The New HpH Twn Shark is coming.....Last week I spoke to HpH and they
already have deposits for 10 of these gliders.and it's not expected to be
available until probably 2012......but at under 80,000 EU a ready to fly
40/1 17.5M "club" glider with flaps and retract is going to be a hard one to
beat!
http://www.hph.cz/index.php?option=c...id=114&lang=en
tim
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"Frank Whiteley" wrote in message
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Maybe what is needed is a two place glider home-built kit that clubs
could build. Is there any chance we could get Dick VanGrunsven
interested in this? He's a glider enthusiast.

--
Mike Schumann

The Peregrine project has failed to date. Although they had PMA
privileges, they failed to get manufacturing certification. This
requires building three under FAA inspection. Unfortunately, this
means if the FAA balks at something, they leave and you have to wait
for their next visit. Because of funding, FAA will visit at most
three times in a year. The problem is that it could take a year, two,
or three to complete. If you run out of money or lose your lease, you
have to start over. PMA is for a particular facility as set up. You
can't simply move to another location as I understand it. Owning the
TC is only a starting point.

Part of the problem was that the TC utilized Polish aluminum and
Russian steel. Though they agreed, materials substitution required
significant and expensive engineering changes.

More recently, commercial money has not been available. Would it
make sense to substitute equivalent, locally available, materials and
submit a 'new design' for LSA certification? An LSA glider can be
used to train for the full certificate. Not useful as a ride glider,
but clubs could certainly make use of such a glider for training.
They might then also revive their initial project, a different design,
as a TC'd design.

When the tooling was put into storage, the assembly line could turn
out one glider per week, once workers were trained.

Just thinking outside the box,

Frank Whiteley

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