Looking back onto 40 years of gliding, my first flight in the swiss-made Archaeopteryx was not only very exciting, but an entrance into a new world of soaring.
The high-end hang glider which you probably all know from different publications in Soaring Café now has a younger sister: Dean-Siegler recently introduced Elec’teryx as a low-end electric motor glider.
OLC Magazine: At the February 25th Alpenflug Symposium at Innsbruck, Roger Ruppert, developer of the foot-launched ultralight glider Archaeopteryx, gave a presentation on the development of this hybrid hang glider / sailplane, which has been certificated in Germany as an ultralight glider.