As I may have mentioned last time around, I was so enthused by the success of the electrified Slingsby Dart 17R that I almost straight away started to work on making another Bergfalke Ⅳ from my recently published plan. It might be worthwhile to explain at this juncture the reason for despoiling an otherwise perfectly good glider in this fashion. In a nutshell, it's all down to Climate Change. Anyone who has been flying as long as I have cannot but help to have noticed that fly-friendly weather has become a bit of an endangered species. But with E-Assist we can now venture out on a light wind day with an iffy forecast and know that if we fly and the lift disappears, there will be no need for the long walk to the bottom of the hill.
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