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Antares 20E electric motor glider

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Aerobask are working for a while on their new project, an Antares 20E motor glider with retractable propeller:

 

http://aerobask.com/antares/antares-xplane.php

 

Here are some information about the real aircraft:

 

http://www.lange-aviation.com/htm/english/products/antares_20e/antares_20E.html

 

http://blog.cafefoundation.org/richard-van-grunsvens-antares-20e/

Mario Donick .:. vFlyteAir

Looks great!

 

My dream glider IRL.

 

Enjoyed a lot flying the model in Silent Wings.

 

Thx Mario

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Great!!! Thanks for the info. My credit card is jumping up and down in my wallet, waiting for this bird <_<.

 

Especially this picture brings back a lot of memories :p0504: .

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Looks very nice. Thanks for the link.

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Looks great!

 

My dream glider IRL.

 

I've never been that interested in gliders until recently when I visited an airfield dedicated to gliding and it looked like seriously good fun. I noticed people are very passionate about it, and this does look a seriously nice piece of kit (In real-life), especially for those airfields that charge you loads for the use of a winch or tow.

The problem is that an Antares costs a fortune. Even a 2nd hand DG-800 is a very expensive :-(

 

Pipistrel are offering alternatives, like this Taurus Electric

 

BTW: I'm going to be a whole week, next week, in Germany, at Lagen, Hessen... Anyone knows about good airfield with glider activity to visit around ?

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Flightsimming since 1992

AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)

BTW: I'm going to be a whole week, next week, in Germany, at Lagen, Hessen... Anyone knows about good airfield with glider activity to visit around ?

 

Do you mean Langen, which is very close to EDDF/Frankfurt?

 

A very famous airfield with (but not only) glider activity is the Wasserkuppe/EDER. But with the current weather, I doubt that there will be any glider activity there ...

My sceneries (excerpt): LPMA Madeira (XPFR), LGSR Santorini, LRBV Brasov, the city of Fürth (Germany), several libraries, ...

Wow, That's great! I will pick it up and it motivates me to reinstall XPX which is on my to do list. But, its an odd choice for a sailplane. Something like an AWS27 or 28 might have had a far broader appeal to glider pilots! Aerosoft got it right with DiscusX for broad appeal and I don't think they even that well out of that. Hope it doesn't turn out to be a PMDG MD11 for them. I mean from a money making stand point. But I will buy it. :BigGrin:

Here you can find a map and some more links:

 

http://www.hessischer-luftsportbund.de/

 

Thank you very much Marcus!

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The Antares should be available soon. Here is a preview Let's Play I did yesterday (video language is German and some kind of English):

 

Mario Donick .:. vFlyteAir

Looks very nice :)

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