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ABOVE & LEFT: These are shots of Norm
Castagneto's SWIFT motorglider. It is powered by a 3-cylinder, 24
hp Konig engine that gives him about 300-400 fpm climb at sea level.
Each cylinder has its own NACA cooling inlet.
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LEFT: These is Larry Weihs' Mitchell
B-10 ultralight. He purchased it at the SHA auction 2- years ago
and brought it back for advice on tweaking it before the first flight as
a glider. No plans for power right now.
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LEFT: Here are a couple more shots of
Jeff Byard's beautiful Genesis II sailplane. He brought it down to
a TWITT meeting last year and gave us all a very close look and some history
behind the design.
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| ABOVE: These are shots of Norm Castagneto's
original Mitchell Stealth wing. He had attempted to imbed the pilot
within the wing, but gave the project up and restored the
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wing to its original configuration. It
is still a long way from being flyable, but he will eventually use a 3-cylinder
Konig 24 hp engine on a pod. It is for sale, but we don't have his
number.
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  LEFT:
Makes & models unknown. These were laying around Harald Buettner's
hanger and I couldn't resist. Notice the lightening holes in the
big model.
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ABOVE:
The neon colored foam wings on display are produced by Northeast Sailplane
Products (www.nesail.com/Bowman/jw.html).
They appear to have a nice line of other types of flying wing models.
Models on the table are being demonstrated by Pat Oliver, a member of TWITT who has quite an extensive library of paper flying wings. He is the genius behind the paper BKB we have on the website. |
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| ABOVE: These are some shots of Eric
Raymonds electric drive unit on the SunSeeker. In the first picture
the motor is the flat section in the middle of the cooling fins.
The rest of it is casing and extension structure to fit
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the aircraft. This gives you a good idea
of the simplicity of the unit. The air stream makes the blades fold
in flight and rotational forces open them up when power is applied.
His flights at Tehachapi's high altitude were impressive.
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