EMG-6 Progress

Dean Sigler Electric Powerplants, Sustainable Aviation 5 Comments

Your editor has been on a road trip for several days, visiting the great Motel 6’s of California, and incidentally dropping in at Corning, California to stock up on olives and meet with Brian Carpenter, head of Rainbow Aviation.  He holds forth there as dealer for the full line of Quicksilver ultralight aircraft, does flight training, and with his wife Carol, presents training classes on repairing ultralight, light sport, weight shift, and even powered parachute type aircraft.  The pair has written several books on these topics. Brian recently teamed with Quicksilver to manufacture a kit aircraft that will eventually include one or more electric motors for propulsion.  With many ingenious features and a low introductory price, the all-metal airplane could become an introductory trainer for novice ultralight pilots.  He and Quicksilver held a joint press conference at Airventure 2013 to announce the new machine. Fitting easily into ultralight weight requirements, even with a motor and batteries, the EMG-6 (electric motor …