Does anyone know what glider that is?

Ran accross this nice clip on YouTube posted by the Bacchus Marsh Soaring group in Australia. At 3:11, a wing-mounted camera shows a glider I can't identify. It looks like a side-by-side glass ship with a conventional tail.
Just curious what that glider is.
Thanks,
GM

Um, where's the link ?
Might be the Platypus...

On Mar 3, 7:44*pm, Dave Nadler wrote:
Um, where's the link ?
Might be the Platypus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQp12j7_4PU

Yes! It is the Platypus!

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 1:18:35 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
Ran accross this nice clip on YouTube posted by the Bacchus Marsh Soaring group in Australia. At 3:11, a wing-mounted camera shows a glider I can't identify. It looks like a side-by-side glass ship with a conventional tail.
Just curious what that glider is.
Thanks,
GM

oops - the link didn't make it! Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQp12...vfcY6ZyM0Ll7gY

On 3 mrt, 20:35, GM wrote:
On Saturday, March 3, 2012 1:18:35 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
Ran accross this nice clip on YouTube posted by the Bacchus Marsh Soaring group in Australia. At 3:11, a wing-mounted camera shows a glider I can't identify. It looks like a side-by-side glass ship with a conventional tail.
Just curious what that glider is.
Thanks,
GM

oops - the link didn't make it! Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQp12...&context=C31b5...

It is the one and only es-65 Platypus by Edmund Schneider, who also
designed the ESG
http://www.gliding-in-melbourne.org/platypus.htm

On Mar 3, 1:09*pm, stokiko wrote:
On 3 mrt, 20:35, GM wrote:

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 1:18:35 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
Ran accross this nice clip on YouTube posted by the Bacchus Marsh Soaring group in Australia. At 3:11, a wing-mounted camera shows a glider I can't identify. It looks like a side-by-side glass ship with a conventional tail.
Just curious what that glider is.
Thanks,
GM

oops - the link didn't make it! Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQp12...&context=C31b5...

It is the one and only es-65 Platypus by Edmund Schneider, who also
designed the ESGhttp://www.gliding-in-melbourne.org/platypus.htm

Sensibly using low tow too, I see.

Mike

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 4:09:18 PM UTC-5, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Mar 3, 1:09*pm, stokiko wrote:
On 3 mrt, 20:35, GM wrote:

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 1:18:35 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
Ran accross this nice clip on YouTube posted by the Bacchus Marsh Soaring group in Australia. At 3:11, a wing-mounted camera shows a glider I can't identify. It looks like a side-by-side glass ship with a conventional tail.
Just curious what that glider is.
Thanks,
GM

oops - the link didn't make it! Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQp12...&context=C31b5...

It is the one and only es-65 Platypus by Edmund Schneider, who also
designed the ESGhttp://www.gliding-in-melbourne.org/platypus.htm

Sensibly using low tow too, I see.

Mike

Thanks to all that replied! That Platypus looks like a really interesting design. Just wondering why it didn't go into production.
GM

I flew the platypus at Bacchus Marsh with Alan Patching.
What a great glider!
Nice handling, great visibility, side by side so cockpit communication is great. It even has a dummy landing gear handle which will sound an alarm if you try to pull airbrakes with the fixed gear "up".
There should be more than the one...
Jim

Wow -- nice video. Hmmm, soaring ...

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 11:05:49 PM UTC-5, JS wrote:
I flew the platypus at Bacchus Marsh with Alan Patching.
What a great glider!
Nice handling, great visibility, side by side so cockpit communication is great. It even has a dummy landing gear handle which will sound an alarm if you try to pull airbrakes with the fixed gear "up".
There should be more than the one...
Jim

I enjoyed flying it as well. It wasn't built quite
straight and has a firm tendency to turn at speed...
There was lots of intrigue and multiple attempts
to get it into production, but that was all
decades ago.

See ya, Dave "YO electric"