Motor Goats by Mike Sandlin   Last update.....June 14 ,2022 Some Goat builders have put motors on their Goats! I designed a car-top glider, power was not intended, but these things happen... At right, Mihai Forna is flying his electric powered Synchronus Goat over Romania (see below).

Latest Synchronus Goat flight video, June 2022:        Electric Aircraft Synchronus Goat First Flight

[November 9, 2020] I have made the first fight with electric motor on the Goat glider, which I call Synchronus Goat now because the name of the electric propulsion system that I developed is Synchronus. The takeoff was made with full power,16kw (22Hp) for time being, the takeoff run was short, and at 30km/h the plane lifted off the ground, it climbed gently with 40km/h up to around 80m, then reduced power to about 7Kw (9.5Hp) and flew level for about 4 min with gentle turns to see how it reacts to commands, all went well, i think that CG is a bit to forward, the stick has to be kept pulled a bit to fly level compared to non motorised version where the stick was neutral position on level flight. Then reduced power and landed, the landing speed was about 32km/h, the entire flight was 5 minutes, the sun was setting and I had to come down. The flight experience was very nice and smooth, the noise level did not increase too much, just propwash was felt a little, the rudder became more responsive because the propwash, elevator was about the same, with full power on level flight the airspeed was 50km/h. In the spring i'll do more tests and report back. I attached some photos, i will put out a video after i get registration for the plane.......Mihai [November 11, 2020] The avaliable flight time in this setup is about 40-45 minutes if power is manegd well, in that 5 min flight i used only about 1/6 of the battery capacity, so i still had left about 25 min more flying time, the landing was so soon becouse i had run out of day light, the sun had already set when i took off, and i knew i had only about 5 to 10 minutes to play. It was hard to find a nice day, here was mostly foggy for the past month, and on that day fog lifted up at 1pm and sun set at 5pm, so by the time i finished setting up everything and compleated the ground tests the sun was down... I'ts ok you can share and post, no problem. I will add a link of my youtube channel where i put a groud test with motor on a stand, the test was made about a month ago, that test concluded that system was flight ready. I still have to make a few adjustments to the software of the controller, and add 2 or 4 more cells to the battery si i can get up to 20kw the max continous power for the motor, right now battery has 28kg,20 lipo cells 60Ah 4.44Kwh. The battery being placed on the back does offset the motor in the front but not that much becouse is placed so low compared to the motor, so the leverage is not that greate becouse the balance point of the weights and CG is up as well, so i'ts like a balance weight scale. I have to redesign the tailwhele, it is a bit to flimsy (the bearings wore out in about 10 flights) so if i make it a bit sterdier it will also be a bit heavier and will offset the weight in the front and move the CG back a bit. The oather thing the will help with CG if i ad those 2 or 4 cell to the battery, that will also give a bit of help on moving the CG back. Ground test link:  https://youtu.be/NTU_feiQHvM  All the best, Mihai. [ From the editor: the Ground test video indicates a three bladed Helix 1.3 meter diameter propeller rotating at [up to] 2350 rpm. 78 Kg. of thrust is mentioned, but I don't know if this was measured during the test.] This was the Romanian Goat, a glider, with just a single center wheel, two or three years before the Synchronus power pack was installed (see above). As a registration requirement, Mihai performed a sandbag load test of his Goat wings to 840 Kg. (1850 lbs.). No damage was noted, so it seems to be in the clear for more flying.

"El Pelicano"  electric Supergoat Alex Ferrer and his ultralight flying club in Peru built this Goat kit and flew it as a glider. Now an electric engine experiment is underway, see the video! Electric Ultralight (GOAT) full flight                                         [This motorgoat  uses only the single center main wheel, the original Goat landing gear system. Maybe a wing runner will be needed at takeoff, but it is otherwise the easiest to use of all wheel setups. Landing on rough ground in a slight turn, you might wipe out your two wheel gear, whereas the single big wheel will roll right through it all. If I wanted to focus on developing a power system, this is probably the landing gear I would use. Here's a video clip showing a motorfloater doing a beautiful take off, unassisted, from its single main wheel: Super floater look alike motorglider take off, ]

This Goat is adapted to a popular paramotor engine, and retains the single main wheel by using small side wheels.         The video: Super Goat motor glider self launch w/ HE Black Hawk 125 engine Oct 6, 2016

Buy and Fly! Here's the Aviad Zigolo MG12, an Italian design very much like a Goat, and you can buy it! The engine is a Vittorazi Moster 185 (primarily a paramotror engine). It folds up for transport on a trailer.  The United States dealer is Aeromarine LSA in Florida, which has developed and flown an electric version, the Zigolo/Electrolite: Electrolite First Flights

Talos Goat, on Crete, with a small engine. This plane taxied and flew, but the Youtube videos do not seem to be available anymore.

Thanks to the Choppergirl.airwar internet source for news of this motorized Goat, described as built by Mac Hodges. I'm not sure what motor that is, but it looks like a conventional paramotor system, which would usually involve a two bladed propeller diameter of 1.2 or 1.3 meters. The propeller shown is large enough to require the front of the lower tail boom to be set way down for tip clearance. Ground clearance for that tail boom is provided by (guess what!) sitting forward on a nose wheel that does not show in the photo. The vertical stabilizer area has been reduced from the glider version, and there seems to be no wing dihedral. The Goat looks good with a nose wheel! Videos from March, 2019:                    goatafteraileronadjustment goatb4aileronadjustment

This is not a motorgoat, but it has a lot of similar qualities. This is the Bluebird, my new motorfloater with similar wing area and weight relative to the Goat.

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