On Mar 9, 2:42*pm, Limus wrote:
I found out today that Popular Science put all of their issues going
many years back into Google Books, available for free. I was just
browsing Jul 1948 issue when I found this article there that talks
about the soaring in 1948 and Robinson "Rate of climb" instrument. Man
we have it easy these days. Except of course fine sailplanes don't
retail for $3000 anymore.

http://tinyurl.com/yb7vtz2

Limus

That was a very advanced glider. There are a lot of ships since that
don't carry 34 gallons of water.
We have a pellet vario in our 1-26 #002.
You wouldn't want to have to pay an inflation adjusted $3000 for a
glider today. The 1-21 was very expensive then and was replaced by the
much less expensive 1-23.
Both 1-21's are still alive.
UH