Thanks Scobie for all the info. He took off and circle around the field only a couple hundred feet up and came back around for a fly-by about 50 feet off the ground, this baby was hauling butt! I couldn't believe how fast it was going in such a short time, almost clipped a light pole when he banked it around like a crop duster. Sure was alot of wing there.
Dave Hauch Mich. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scobie Puchtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RCSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 8:58 PM Subject: [RCSE] WAY cool visitor at field today > > Dave, > What you saw was a Stemme S-10 motorglider, pretty much top dog on the > motorglider food chain, and just a ridiculously impressive aircraft. > > Not only 75'plus span, but comfortable side by side seating for two adults, > fully retractable landing gear (in a tailwheel configuration) close to a > 50:1 glide ratio, min sink of 112ft/min, stalls at 48mph, 700nautical mile > cruise range, with powered service ceiling at 30,000 ft, revolutionary > centripetal propeller deployment from a telescoping nose cone. The engine > actually sits behind the occupants and drives the propeller by a torque > shaft extension that runs between the two front seats to the nose cone. > Single lever transition from glide to powered flight in 5 seconds. Wings are > foldable by one person to normal hangar span. All ground operations can be > performed with wings folded. Read the brochure at: > http://www.stemmewest.com/pages/S10_E.pdf > > Unlike almost any other motorglider in its performance class, the S-10 is > perfectly fine to use as a cruise aircraft,(in most the motor is reserved > for launch-only operations) It has 139 mph turbocharged cruise speed burns > maybe 5.2gal. per hr., which works out to about 27 miles per gallon. Cockpit > has complete instrumentation. > > I'll stop before I start drooling on the keyboard here. Oh, wait, did I > mention the solar panels that provide 30W of electrical power for onboard > equipment when the engine is off? > > > Lift, > Scobie at Liftworx > www.liftworx.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: D Hauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [RCSE] cool visitor at field today > > Hi, > I was flying today at one of my fields, which is a small airport. > Looked over to the horizon and saw this huge glider coming in for a landing. > My first thougt was, Skip Millers here! :-) > > It was a huge t-tail motor glider. It had a 114 hp Rotex motor, mounted in > the nose. > Had retracts. > 77' span. > It was a six servo wing, well functions anyway, and spoilers. > Cruising speed was 135 knots. > > Cost, well I was telling my girlfriend about it and asked her what she > thought it cost, and she guessed $10,000. > I said I had that much in molded planes and gear in my van, only because one > was a Icon. :-) (just joking Don) > > Cost of motor glider, 1/4 of a million. > > Made my hobby seem real cheap. Going to order another Icon. > > Dave Hauch > Mich. > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with > MIME turned off. > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
