Novel features included a composite fiberglass airframe, a glass-panel cockpit and a parachute designed to float the airplane to a safelanding in an emergency.
Recent efforts by European economic officials to contain the euro crisis have bordered on the farcical at times and a humiliating but safelanding for the E.
She attempted her first solo flight at Darley Moor Airfield on 28 October, but the hang glider started swinging from side to side so she made a safelanding.
One of the laser sensors may find its way onto a craft vying for Google's X Prize, with the results used to determine where vessels can touch down whilst keeping a safe distance from Apollo landing sites.