At 15:08 11 February 2011, Walt Connelly wrote:

The glass vs aluminum thing has me leaning toward aluminum big
time. I don't ever expect to be competing seriously in cross country
competition so a bird for local fun might be adequate.

Hey, you can have a fun non-glass bird and still compete at the national
level. And it's dirt cheap. It's called a Schweizer 1-26. If you can
fly one of those things in competition against the likes of Ron Schwartz,
Bob von Helens, and some others, and finish well, you've got big-time
bragging rights. And you can paint it any way you want!

Jim Beckman