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ASH26 from LET Model

Details

An exclusive model for the most demanding modellers.Equipped with flaps, it is an all-rounder, equally happy of the slope and in flat-field flying. It is delivered almost ready to fly (just the radio needs to be installed), it has a scale retractable under-carriage, the canopy opens just as it does on the full-size machine and a scale cockpit interior is also supplied.

Features:

White gel-coat, epoxy grp fuselage with registration numbers and an aero-tow release mechanism.
Canopy hinged, scale cockpit interior.
Hollow-moulded grp wings with carbon-fibre reinforcing, flaps, ailerons and air-brakes already installed.
Tailplane and fin: hollow-moulded epoxy grp.

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Schleicher ASH 26

Schleicher ASH 26

The ASH 26 is an 18 metre Class glider, built of modern fibre reinforced composites. It first flew in 1993. It is manufactured by Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co. The 'H' indicates this is a design of Martin Heide.

The ASH 26 has plain flaps, a retractable undercarriage and a water ballast system. The structure is a complex composite of carbon, aramid and polyethylene fibre reinforced plastic. The wings have pneumatic turbulators. Of the ASH 26s sold, over 90% are the self-launching version, the ASH 26 E; the engine being a liquid cooled Diamond (now Austro Engine) AE50R Wankel rotary engine.