{"id":8559,"date":"2013-12-31T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2013-12-31T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T06:44:00","slug":"emg-6-takes-first-hops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/emg-6-takes-first-hops\/","title":{"rendered":"EMG-6 Takes First Hops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Carpenter of Adventure Aircraft Inc.<\/a> (part of his Rainbow Aviation Company) must trust his engineering, since he acted as his own test pilot for the first flights of his EMG-6 ultralight glider, a craft with options of mounting one, two, three (or even four, as Brian suggests) electric motors.\u00a0 As an ultralight motor glider it can carry a pilot, ballistic parachute, and a small powerpack with one motor, controller and batteries.\u00a0 Depending on the pilot\u2019s weight, the airplane might be able to self launch and reach soaring altitude, or for heavier payloads, use the motor as a sustainer unit after a ground or aircraft tow to seek out distant thermals.<\/p>\n

\"EMG-6<\/a>

EMG-6 in its simplest faired form, with single motor behind cockpit pod<\/p><\/div>\n

While waiting for this next development, look at the number three test flight, towed from the runway by a \u201cquad\u201d all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and on landing demonstrating a remarkably short landing roll into only a 9-mph wind.<\/p>\n