Flight Trial: Pipistrel’s Sleek Panthera

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Key Takeaways:

  • Slovenian company Pipistrel is actively developing the Panthera, a sleek single-engine retractable aircraft.
  • AVweb's Paul Bertorelli conducted an in-depth flight test and analysis of the Panthera's performance.
  • The flight test confirmed that the Panthera largely lives up to its fast appearance, performing pretty much as expected.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlfg-74m3U&t=73s

The innovative Slovenian company Pipistrel is still toiling away on the sleek and sexy Panthera single-engine retractable. In this in-depth video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli took the airplane for a couple of flights and crunched all the numbers. So is it as fast as it looks? Pretty much.

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