On 3/7/2021 6:08 PM, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Moshe Braner wrote on 3/7/2021 2:07 PM:
But I'm getting further off topic.Â* Gliders are nice.Â* They don't need
no steenkin' engines.

Alright! Back to Basics: bungey launch! Or is it still OK to use
electric motors? No steenk there.

Lighten up, Eric and others. I was just saying that in gliders we don't
need to be dragged cross-country by a locomotive. I have nothing
against launching by some motorized thing or another.

And back to the topic, we have some people who believe all the hype from
Saint Elon about new batteries etc, and others who are more skeptical.
But we all revel in what has been achieved in electric glider launching
and sustaining, and hope for more. It's a lot more feasible than
electric air transport.

Personally I think that dragging an expensive battery pack along in
every glider is inefficient use of resources. But then you may say the
same about dragging equally, if not more, expensive composite structures
around the sky. We do what we have to do to achieve our aerial dance
performances. Then we land, and like any performance art, it's all gone
poof, into the past. We only do it because we love it.