Silhouette challenge

[Lightning Mate]

Good grief TC.

You're going to have to tell us how you found that one!

We've been running around all day.

[Lightning Mate]

WK, you just went off-line !

[Walter-Karl]

Hi SincoTC. Perfect sherlockholmingandwatsoning. It is indeed the André Starck AS-90 New Look.
Please send PM with email so I can send photo/text

As suggested by SincoTC, Open House please

[Lightning Mate]

Just where did you find that great challenge WK?

I'm not telling you where I found this one though.

Please send PM with email so I can send photo/text

I think we would all like to see that.

[skytrain10]

Nice challenge WK....and its reminded me where I've seen it, or at least a picture of it. Saw another Starck model at a flying event many years back in the UK, and the pilot (maybe Andre Starck himself?) had a homemade brochure with pictures/diagrams of all the various Starck models built....if only I had a copy!

Now yours LM...a motorglider...Polish maybe?

[Walter-Karl]

Dave, did you find yours, at the local gliding club?
My best guess is the Motorraab and/or a homebuilt conversion of a Raab glider from Germany

[Lightning Mate]

Good evening skytrain and WK.

Motorraab and/or a homebuilt conversion of a Raab glider from Germany

Not that one, but it is German, not Polish.

[spook]

Scheibe SF-24B Motorspatz

Actually forget that the u/c is all wrong!

[Lightning Mate]

OK spook - I'll forget it....

[Lightning Mate]

WK,

Dave, did you find yours, at the local gliding club?

Wot ??????

Me? Rotate speed 195 Knots..............

Try two jet engines and lots of s p e e d

Sod it - I'm off for dinner. Good night.

[Ridge Runner]

So even hard core fighter jocks have to eat? My illusion is shattered mate! I thought you survived on lashings of JP-4 and munching on MIGs!

[Lightning Mate]

Nah mate.

Didn't care for raw JP4. Glenavtur was much better. Russian aluminium wasn't as nice as EE aluminium either.

[Ridge Runner]

You ate your own Lightning?

[Lightning Mate]

Eat, drink, breathe, sleep, dream Lightning.

Now, how ya doing with the challenge?

Methinks cluetime soon, but nobody else is on thread at the moment.

[Ridge Runner]

I'll be honest that although my light is on I have been deep in work stuff! Sorry. I did look up German motor-gliders yesterday without success.... clearly!

[Lightning Mate]

OK RR.

This was not a motor glider, but a two-seat training sailplane.

One or two were converted to motor gliders.

[skytrain10]

In view of your last clue, would this be a powered version of the Schleicher Ka-4 Rhonlerche II, aka the Rupert Rhonlerche II?

[Lightning Mate]

Bullseye skytrain.

I was just about to post the designers' name, Rudolf Kaiser.

Please take the thread.

[SincoTC]

Good work skytrain,

I'd just found this, but when I logged in you'd got there first

Photos: Schleicher Ka-4 Rhonlerche II Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

[Lightning Mate]

That's hapenned to me more than once mate - bloody annoying innit!