Dave Springford reports that Willem Langellan received a call this morning from an official at Transport Canada , and at last they have all the paperwork needed to issue the type certificate. The problem occurred when the manual was found to contain solely imperial measurements and not metric. The conversion and manual amendments had to be done in Germany and thus the hold up. The draft certificate is now sitting on a bureaucrats desk in Ottawa, so all that needs to be done is a signature and we are set to fly. Dave expects the official document will be available by mid-week.
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The photos are of the new plane being test flown in Slovakia during January this year where it was made. Beautiful ! There is no reason not to fly in the Canadian winter if it can be done in Sloakia!! One photo below shows Dave S showing off the newly arrived plane in its trailer at the AGM in Feb.
The following text is from the manufacturer web site.
The most obvious characteristic of the 505 ORION is it's great variability in wingspan. On one hand it can be used in it's 17.2 m version for aerobatics or initial training, and on the other hand the wing extensions to 20 m makes full use of the wingspan limits set for the Two-Seater Class. The enhanced L/D (44) with the larger wing adds to the pleasures of cross country soaring. With the optional tip extensions to 18 m the ORION resembles the well-known trainer, but with many improvements in the details. In this configuration with fixed (non-flapped) wings this two-seater is best suited for training.
For additional desciptions see
http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/dg-505-multitalent-e.html
Dave
