We would like to invite you to meet us at Aero Friedrichafen 2013 in
hall A1-500. See you there!
On Thursday, 25/04/2013 at 15:00, you are welcome at Conference Center East, Room Bern:
FES (Front Electric Sustainer / Selflaunch) - Fun to fly,
Easy to operate, Safe to use! Speaker: Luka Znidarsic
Those of you who can not be there on Thursday, are welcome at Forum stage, Foyer EAST on Friday, 26/04/2013 at 12:30:
FES (Front Electric Sustainer / Selflaunch) - Fun to fly, Easy to operate, Safe to use! Speaker: Luka Znidarsic
You can find detailed supporting program during Aero
here!
April 2013
Maiden flight of AS13,5 FES, new Slovenian selflaunching sailplane
for new 13,5m FAI class! Click here for short video!
March 2013
article "LAK17B FES Flight Impression" Soaring magazine
March, 2013 (author Renny Rozzoni), this article is courtesy of Soaring Magazine and the SSA
new article about Silent 2 Electro in Segelfliegen magazine (author Leonardo Brigliadori)
Silent 2 Electro flight test in Gliding International magazine (author Aldo Cernezzi)
New FES manuals are available in Download section!
We added also older article LAK17 A mit FES, by Stefan Bodner, article is published on www.segelflug.de under
Segelflug-tests
November 2012
We just completed endurance testings (50h requested according CS22 regulations) of our
FES propeller as part of EASA certification program. Testings was
performed by SAirKo company. Actually they
prolonged it (as everything was set up already) to reach 100h and
this was also succesfully completed!
September 2012
You can vote for sustainer engine system you would chose for your sailplane under voting!
From now on you can sign in for our newsletter which we
are planing to
published at least once a year, to be able to inform you better about our development and achievements.
New FES presentation video:
Avgust 2012
Idaflieg Flight performance testing of FES succesfully completed! It
is confirmed that drag is like having installed bugwipers.
Idaflieg website
Two LAK17B FES sailplanes on World Gliding Championship in Uvalde
Texas. Official website
Nice photos
from this event were taken by our friend Mr. Vitek Siroky
BLANIK AMERICA, who is also LAK dealer in USA
We were exploring gliding conditions in Livno, Bosnia and
Hercegovina. It has real potential to become another European
gliding paradize. Website of Livno Adria Cup
2012
July 2012
Lukas and Hugo Benedikt from Slovakia are flying with LAK17A FES on
Euroglide 2012 - 2000km glider race.
5th place for
LAK17A FES during weekend competition in Slovenj
Gradec.
This weekend - starting on Friday we have short gliding competition in our club with 22 pilots on entry list, with 3 FES equipped sailplanes!
www.nad-postojno.si
April 2012
Three FES equipped sailplanes are flying on FCC competition in Prievidza in Mixed class. Two LAK17B FES and one LAK17A FES!
March 2012
We are glad to inform you that we reached important milestone in production - stator plates produced by stamping tool.
As big accuracy is neccesery we were using up to now very expensive and time consuming EDM wire cut CNC machine. With more and more orders we were not able to produce enough motors with this process, so we decided to build stamping toll, which was quite big investment. This will greatly improve our production capabilities!
February 2012
First LAK17B FES delivered to US. It was presented on SSA convention in Reno, Nevada. FES team was also participating on event!
After event it was transported to its home location: Moriarty,
New Mexico.
January 2012
We are glad to announce that we started working in new workshop for FES assembly and production on 300sqm. This will improve our production capabilities to new level.
October 2011
Last weekend we performed a special FES sailplane start, which can make gliding much cheaper!
Idea is simple: Use of FES after being airborne with help of auto-tow.
Only a few sailplanes have high enough landing gear, so that
propeller clearance on grass is not too small for safe self launch.
With help of auto-tow than all FES equipped sailplanes would
not need towing plane or even winch any more to become airborne. All you
need is FES equipped sailplane, usual car and about 120m of Dynemma
rope. Such start could be used also on relatively short, let say
750m long airfields, which are otherwise too short for usual winch
or car launch! If only short runway is available, than more powerful
car is needed for good acceleration.
-LAK17A FES on our LZ design stand in Berblinger hall A2
-Silent 2 FES on stand of Alisport in hall A1
FES is winner of Lindbergh Prize
In the Best Electric Propulsion category there were many new developments here at AERO.
In the judging, our experts gave strong consideration to the commercialization and scalability
potential of the systems reviewed. find out more...!
FES participated on Berblinger Flight competition
We were succesfull at completing the task of competition
(flight from Friedricshafen to Ulm and back) and this succesed
only 8 planes, from 36 teams.
