The fact that the Pégase or ASW20F never sold in Germany are rather due to
the fact that Centrair went into licencing problems with Schleicher on the
number of ASW20 built under this lience, and that the Péegase fuselage as
well as the wing planiform are a 100% copy of the ASW20.

Pitty though because the Pégase is a very good glider - but with a company
like Centrair having lost all competitiveness lost over the heavy protection
by the FFVV, you just can't be in business.

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


a écrit dans le message de news:
...
Yurek wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:56:01 +0000 (UTC),
(Michel Talon) wrote:

If you don't benefit from this effect you have to sell cheaper or you
don't sell. Take an example, the French glider Pegase was an
excellent glider, very comparable to the LS4. It was 30% cheaper
than the LS4 still it was difficult to sell, to say the least.

I can't agree with you again...
Pegase was nothing else, as a copy of ASW-19 (*), which was a good
construction. Pegase was not easy to sell, because it was not better
as the original. As Andreas Maurer noticed, it was sometimes even
worse...

The Pegase was ways better than the ASW19. It was as good as the LS4 if
not
better. Your comments are exactly the demonstration of the sort of crap
people
think of non German gliders, hence of the difficulty of selling them.

(*) This is patently false. The Pegase has original wings, which is by far
the
most important part of a glider.

--
Michel Talon