I didn’t know Mike, but have been saddened by his loss.  I was very impressed by his rotary install.

The picture of the glider helps to understand a report that I read that the tail had broken off the glider.  I was thinking that it would take more than a tree to do that, but the tail boom in the picture looks like it could be broken fairly easily if the plane wing hit and the plane was snapped to the side.  I am confused though, by the report that it is a motorized glider.  I don’t see any propeller and if it was truly motorized, why would he not have been able to extend a glide to the airport?

Bill B