On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:53:31 UTC, Bruce Hoult wrote:

: In article cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-ItubrYhRIIMd@localhost,
: "Ian Johnston" wrote:

: Only if it was growing faster than people bought new gliders.
: Basically, wooden gliders rot away and plastic ones don't, so it's
: inevitable that cheap old plastic gliders dominate the budget end of
: the market.
:
: Not in NZ, as far as I can see. I see ads for airworthy Oly's and K6's
: and the like for NZ$6k - $12k. I don't think you've get anything much
: glass for under $20k and I include PW-5's in that.

I don't doubt that there may be special situations - places a long
shipping charge away from glider manufacturers - where things are
different. In the UK, the 8 grand which it would have taken to buy a
nice Ka6E ten years ago will now buy you something quite respectable
in the Astir line.

Ian