Bruin Cub
Hello,
I've been watching this new design for a little while now. Anybody out there have a better view of it than I have from Fairbanks Alaska, in the middle of the Winter?
The link for Windward Performance and the Bruin Cub is
http://windward-performance.com/bruin.html Though sometimes it doesn't work.
Windward Performance and the owner, Greg Cole have some pretty amazing credentials from Chief Engineer of R & D at Lancair to designing a two place glider that went to 76,000 feet.
If anyone could pull off an efficient design for both weight and lift/speed, they seem like a good bet.
928 lbs with the "small engine" 100 hp Rotax 912 ? Seems on the heavy side.
140 knots ! WOW ! Even with me often commuting 8 hours, round trip, to where I hunt; for my mission, I wouldn't be willing to trade even 60 mph more speed for 10 miles an hour on the bottom end. I usually putt along with
my 0-360 turning 2200, anyway. For your mission, it might be the cats meow. Being able to haul half sheets of plywood and sleep in the back would be great !
105 gallons of fuel would be amazing. I MIGHT be willing to give up my 90 gallon Sorrenson belly tank, but never my 30 gallon Atlee Dodge wing tanks. Both Av gas and unleaded are over $8.00 per gallon in Galena and Bettles.
That's double the cost of what I have in my tanks at home.
Gross weight 2430 !!!!!!!!!
Jonny O