The Corporate Pilots' Fun Airplane
Nestled among the multi-million-dollar business jets and
high-performance turboprops at the NBAA static display in Las Vegas
in October was something a little unusual... a
motorglider. Alexander Papenberg, CEO of Stemme USA, was
showing off the Stemme S10-VT at NBAA for a simple reason. "Lots of
corporate pilots fly from A to B IFR during the workday, and on
weekends they want to fly a real airplane. They come here, they
look at it, and fall in love." And, Papenberg says, "it goes like
hell. 140 knots at 10,000 feet on five gallons of gas ... and you
can use mogas," he said. But the real beauty of the airplane is
when you shut of