Another new Antares

Press release: Maiden flight ANTARES 18S

The first ANTARES 18S made its successful maiden flight Sunday May 28th, 2006. The youngest member of the ANTARES-family of sailplanes then was put to the acid test during several test flights at the home airport of Lange Flugzeugbau in Zweibrücken (Germany). In its first few flights, the sailplane clearly exceeded the development team's expectations of gentle and nimble handling, and the test pilots decided to start flutter and spin testing the same day.

The first flights of the ANTARES 18S have also shown that the aerodynamic design, aiming for outstanding glide performance especially at middle and high speeds, has yielded the expected results without compromising on pilots comfort. The remaining flight testing will be performed rapidly in the next months.

Unlike her larger sister, the self launching electrical glider ANTARES 20E, the ANTARES 18S has been designed as a pure glider for the 18m-class and can be retrofitted or ordered as a self sustainer, the ANTARES 18T.

This glider is on its way to Sweden to fly in World Gliding Championships, where everyone hopes it will stop raining some day...

Links -

Antares Detailed data

Photos

Auxiliary-powered Sailplane Association

9th June

Promotion Pens

from Steve Fraquet

click to enlarge

I am promoting the Scale Soaring UK image and as such I've had some advertising pens made. I am hoping to sell them to fellow flyers etc all money raised to go to Cancer UK.
I intend to sell the pens at events for 60p each or two for £1 should anyone wish to have a pen sent to them then they could email me and I will send one for £1, two for £1.30.

The inscription on the pen is:-

I've joined Scale Soaring U.K.
Scale Tugs and Gliders
Aero-towing or Slope Soaring
www.scalesoaring.co.uk

Steve will be at Lords Hill on Sunday
or contact Steve direct

21st June

from Allan Arthurs

This event may be of interest to anyone who would like a holiday in the scenic beauty of the Italian Dolomites. More details from their website

22nd June

FVA 10B Rheinland

Brians Model - click to enlarge

Thanks to Brian Grace, the documentation on this site for the glider have been improved. See the left column on the Docs page

27th June

Berlin Aerotow

For a glimpse of the models at last weekends Berlin (LSC Condor) Aerotow go here

30th June

All fired up

Check out this video of the ultimate self launch system in a Salto

30th June

Olympia Detail photos

A set of 8 highly detailed images of a Belgian Olympia can be downloaded from here

Would this guy be a good Tug Pilot?

from Tony Woods

DEPLANENad.wmv

1st June

Large scale models

from Ray Cooper

On the Swiss IGG website are build pictures of Ka-8, Hutter 28 and Lo-100

You will need to scroll down the page to find Bau Projekte in the left column and select the photos from its menu

1st June

Topless for the summer

Here are a few pictures of an interestingly modified ASK-13 called the Torpedo

4th June

Schempp-Hirth SHK

Rob Macrostie has provided us with a set of of detail photos of this popluar V-Tail glider. They are in the Documentation section or go direct from here

6th June

World Gliding Championships

These are presently taking place in Sweden. To visit the photo site go here

6th June

New DVD in production

For anyone interested in WW2 assault gliders this new film is currently in production in the USA. Go to their website and sign up if you want to be kept advised

14th June

Look who dropped in for Tea

A former 43 year old female German World Champion pilot chose an unusual landing spot for her LS8 during the German Championships yesterday. Fortunately she survived the accident, although she was taken to hospital

22nd June

Tugging the BGA way

A new guidance brochure for full size tug pilots has just been released. If you want to read how the Big Boys do it, then download their pdf file

22nd June

Schempp-Horth are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Martinn Schempp. The have put together an interesting photo file of his years in gliding.

26th June

Full size or scale?

If you ever thought that our models are getting too expensive, then you might like to consider full-size. To buy a Slinsby Skylark 3 for £650 go here

30th June

Crash, Bang, Wallop

Glider manufacturers must be gearing up their production this year following a lomg spate of incidents, fortunately not many fatal. Here are two more this week. both flown by pensioners - must proove there is life after retirement :-))

The first, a Austrian DG303 flown by a 65 year old pilot, prooved that it is not only modellers that loose their gliders in trees.

and a 72 year old German pilot suffered a head wound when crashing into a field