Morgan Motor glider

[Garry Morgan]

A new project is under way a 18m span motor glider, this has a 6 piece wing, we will remove the outer panel which will be 1.5m shorter span than the sierra, so it can be placed into a hangar with out taking up to much space, one man can rig and derig the aircraft. It is 2 place side by side, all metal construction, powered by a 80hp rotax and cruise 90kts, the wing loading solo will be 34kg and max load 43kg per sq m.

 

 

[Guernsey]

Now that sounds exciting Gary,so will the next project after that be a Sierra Glider Combination where we can add different length wing end sections and convert to a Glider or a Sierra.....the mind boggles. Good on ya Gary.:thumb_up:

 

 

[Guernsey]

Hi Gary,

 

I was talking to a couple of people at Gawler last bweek and mentioned this Glider, do you have any more details or pictures?

 

Alan Marriette.

 

 

[Garry Morgan]

The glider name will be Morgan, it will be a lot longer than the Sierra about 1.8m. The wing is a new design due to the much higher bending load, and wing thickness starts at 15% at the first join it is 11%, and at the tip it will be 18%, this is typical of most new gliders to reduce the amount of wash out, and improve handling at low speed, and keep the wing efficent. We have a 912ul motor to go in it ,which will give a 90kts cruise.Alan I will have a drawing out soon.we have made a canopy with a much lower curve, this we made out of a 3m long bubble .

 

 

[Guernsey]

Thanks Gary for the information, I like the fact that you are calling it a ' MORGAN ' rather than a name without the Morgan in it.

 

When flying and giving radio calls I refuse to call it 'Sierra 7807', I always say ' Morgan Sierra 7807 ':thumb_up:

 

One day we may have a squadron of your different aircraft doing a fly-past at Natfly and we will be known as THE FLYING MORGANS>

 

Alan Marriette. Squadron Leader.