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Old April 9th 20, 07:24 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Best option for electric self starting glider



To quote Dave Nadler, "How hard could it be?"


Love the quote. I'm thinking this might actually be pretty easy to do as a modification to an existing glider with a FES configuration. Most of them already have two batteries and it would be simple to add a second motor controller. The hard part would be mounting the second sustainer motor in a clean manner. I'd have to do some structural analysis, but it might be possible to add a motor to the vertical stabilizer. Alternatively, one could glass motor mounts onto the wings for a pair of 5kW motors.