Lange news - H3 and beyond

BTW:
Lots of really exciting new gliders approaching - anyone else who's as
curious as me about the new ASx-32 and ASx-33?

Cheers
Andreas

Anyone know if the ASH-30 is ever going to come off the drawing
board...? It seems the EB-28 and EB-29 have the "long wing" open
class locked up. The Antares/Nimbus (5?) shorter wing with reduced
wing area at 850kg may prove to be the right combination for Uvalde
2012.

KJC

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT), Kevin Christner
wrote:


Anyone know if the ASH-30 is ever going to come off the drawing
board...? It seems the EB-28 and EB-29 have the "long wing" open
class locked up. The Antares/Nimbus (5?) shorter wing with reduced
wing area at 850kg may prove to be the right combination for Uvalde
2012.


Soon...

Schleicher is working on a nice module system at the moment.
The 32 will be the open-class single-seater version of the 30, and the
33 will be a combination of a slightly shorter 30 fuselage with a 20m
wing very similar to the 31.

I personally think that the wing of the 30 is a tad too bit, not
allowing high-enough wing loadings. But time will tell...

Andreas

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT), Kevin Christner

wrote:
Anyone know if the ASH-30 is ever going to come off the drawing
board...? *It seems the EB-28 and EB-29 have the "long wing" open
class locked up. *The Antares/Nimbus (5?) shorter wing with reduced
wing area at 850kg may prove to be the right combination for Uvalde
2012.


The Antares wing, stretched to 23m, with an aspect ratio of 38.5 and
max wingloading of 58kg/m2 (11.9 lb/ft2) ought to be unbeatable in
good hands at Uvalde.

John Galloway

On Aug 23, 5:29*am, johngalloway wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT), Kevin Christner

wrote:
Anyone know if the ASH-30 is ever going to come off the drawing
board...? *It seems the EB-28 and EB-29 have the "long wing" open
class locked up. *The Antares/Nimbus (5?) shorter wing with reduced
wing area at 850kg may prove to be the right combination for Uvalde
2012.

The Antares wing, stretched to 23m, with an aspect ratio of 38.5 and
max wingloading of 58kg/m2 (11.9 lb/ft2) ought to be unbeatable in
good hands at Uvalde.

John Galloway

Corollary to the question: anyone have an update on Dick Butler's
Concordia project? I seem to remember something about a 13lb+ wing
loading and 28m of wing...

KJC

On Aug 23, 7:42*pm, Kevin Christner wrote:
Corollary to the question: anyone have an update on Dick Butler's
Concordia project? *I seem to remember something about a 13lb+ wing
loading and 28m of wing...

KJC

Dick has closed the two inner wing panels, and he's
now back at work on Concordia after Hobbs and
a bit of fun flying (Hobbs was *not* fun). Concordia
is one amazing project !

See ya, Dave "YO electric"

On 23 ago, 20:42, Kevin Christner wrote:
On Aug 23, 5:29*am, johngalloway wrote:

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT), Kevin Christner

wrote:
Anyone know if the ASH-30 is ever going to come off the drawing
board...? *It seems the EB-28 and EB-29 have the "long wing" open
class locked up. *The Antares/Nimbus (5?) shorter wing with reduced
wing area at 850kg may prove to be the right combination for Uvalde
2012.

The Antares wing, stretched to 23m, with an aspect ratio of 38.5 and
max wingloading of 58kg/m2 (11.9 lb/ft2) ought to be unbeatable in
good hands at Uvalde.

John Galloway

Corollary to the question: anyone have an update on Dick Butler's
Concordia project? *I seem to remember something about a 13lb+ wing
loading and 28m of wing...

KJC

In Szeged, Prof Loek Boermans said that the maximum wing loading of
the Concordia will be 62 kg/m2.

The name of the new "Nimbus 5" is Quintus!