A few years ago a gent from Hus Bos was leading the
UK National Ladder (equivalent to the OLC) for a month
or two flying a Slingsby Tutor, which has even worse
performance than the Grunau Baby. A lot of hot glass
ship owners were really shown up by this!

Unfortunately the powers that be (glass ship owners?)
then changed the rules of the ladder to make a repeat
of this situation almost impossible! However it shows
what can be done in vintage gliders if you put your
mind to it.

Derek Copeland

At 12:06 07 November 2006, Graeme Cant wrote:
kirk.stant wrote:
There is no such thing as a crappy glider.

1. Totally agree - old gliders are neat, have character,
are usually
painted in neat colors...