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Hang glider sheet: Ef5
Name: Ef5 Manufacturer: Ewen Fagan Year: 1977 Pilot level: - Manual: - Document(s): EF-5.pdf
Details
Model: EF5-12M EF5
Wing area (m²): - 13
Wing span (m): 12 9.8
Aspect ratio: - 7.3
Hang glider weight (kg): - 30
Minimal pilot weight (kg): - -
Maximal pilot weight (kg): - -
Minimal speed (km/h): - -
Maximal speed (km/h): - -
Maximal glide ratio (L/H): - -
Speed at maximal glide ratio (km/h): - -
Minimal sink rate (m/s): - -
Packed length (m): - -
Packed length short (m): - -
Number of battens - -
Nose angle (°): - 150
Comments

14/06/2009 		J'ai eu un EF5 10 aux alentours de 1985 1988. En fait, c'était une version de 12 mètre qui avait été raccourcie à 10. Oui, vous pouviez faire ça... J'ai beaucoup volé avec à Stanwell Park et aussi au Mont Blackheat. Moi aussi j'aimais la descente rapide que vous pouviez faire en tirant les deux gouvernes à la fois. Cela pouvait faire des plongeons d'une vitesse à vous couper le souffle et d'intéressantes vrilles. J'ai les plans pour en faire un et, qui sait, j'en ferai peut être une copie un de ces jours. J'adorais voler avec..JT
Karl Redell
22/05/2009 		Hi, I built an EF-5 while living in Sydney, Australia about 1977. It’s in my garage in Wisconsin now. It was sold as sort of a kit. You could buy the machined parts, cables and the sewn sail. The aluminum tubing had to be purchased locally. I built it where I worked on the weekends and hoisted it to the ceiling during the work week. I still have the plans somewhere. It’s a joy to fly. It’s pitch responsive and picks up speed quickly in a dive. Put it in a whip stall with one wing rudder engaged and it will spin. Pull in, apply opposite rudder and it recovers. I’ve never seen a spin from the ground, but ground observers have told me that it made them catch their breath. If you put it into a gradual stall with both rudders engaged, it will stop forward motion and descend vertically – a good way to lose altitude fairly rapidly without picking up speed. I took up a passenger once, but should have moved the attach point farther aft as after about 5 minutes into the flight, I had to tell my passenger to help me push out as my arms were about to give out. Even with him pushing, we couldn’t slow the glider down. We did a run-on flareless high-speed landing on the sand beach at Stanwell Park just south of Sydney and then had a good laugh. When flying along a hillside with one wing close to the ground, applying opposite rudder instantly raises the wing close to the ground giving wingtip control not available with a conventional glider.
francois
30/11/2008 		Autres données : dièdre : 7° vrillage : 7°
francois
30/11/2008 		L'EF5 est un rigide australien conçu par Ewen Fagan. Très similaire au Manta Fledging, il a été vendu sous forme de plan et de kit par son concepteur. Il a été plus tard (début des années 80) vendu par Skyland Kites, Qld. Pilotage similaire au Fledge. Informations tirées du site web Rigid Wing Models.
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