Klaus Ohlmann is legendary in his accomplishments. Having surmounted Mount Everest in a sailplane, traversed the Alps and the Andes in sailplanes and battery- and solar-powered craft, and contributed to wave soaring studies, he is ready to set a new type of record – one with a Stemme hybrid power system. In its sadly last post, https://www.electric-flight.eu/ left us with this news. “With a modified Stemme hybrid S10, Klaus Ohlmann wants to fly 2000 kilometers (1,243 miles).” The publication missed its headline by 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), which would make Ohlmann’s goal 1,864 miles, requiring up to 20 hours of leisurely travel. Stemme has long relied on a unique distribution of power components, with a fossil-fuel-powered engine behind the pilots, a shaft passing from its power takeoff between the two occupants to a forward-mounted, cleverly-concealed propreller tucked into a sliding nose cose. The layout is similar to that of the P-39, and later P-63 Bell Airacobras of WWII. Despite the …
