The url author says that Henry Preiss designed the
RHJ sailplanes. Considerable credit(?) should be given
to Dick Schreder, although I'm not sure he would want
it. Preiss took the HP-18 design and widened the fuselage
so as to put side by side seating in it. Someone 'out
west' did a T-tail version of the HP-18 and put in
a center stick. I don't know whether the RHJ-8 drew
on that effort for its T-tail.

There were lots of jokes around here in the mid-West
about the arguments between Preiss and Schreder over
this glider.

At 00:12 21 February 2006, Wayne Paul wrote:

'MickiMinner' wrote in message
roups.com...
Ok, now an argument has REALLY started. My husband
and I are
disagreeing about the ugliest glider. I say a genesis
is (short
squatty), whereas my husband says the genesis is really
quite lovely.
His vote is for the 'whale' RHJ-?.
I dunno, but Malcom, I don't have pictures of either,
but you really
made us spit out our coffee laughing while reading
your new thread.


Here is a picture a RHJ-8
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/RHJ/C-FAJT.html
which is much nicer than an RHJ-7
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/RHJ/N7514.html