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Old July 20th 13, 05:11 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Discus 2a vs Arcus @ 200km/h - EGC 2013

On Friday, 19 July 2013 18:58:35 UTC-7, Craig R. wrote:
On Friday, July 19, 2013 3:01:00 PM UTC-7, wrote:

Cant be 100 % sure but that does not look like a Discus 2a wing tip.




Rolf




There are 3 generations of wingtips on the Discus 2

-no winglets (upturned wingtips)

-Masak winglets

-Maughmer winglets



Those look like the Maughmer winglets.

Craig R. / D2b driver


Hard to see what speed they were doing or know what ballast level they were each using.

Flying a fully loaded LS8 against a fully loaded Arcus recently at Hobbs at 95-100kn I was definitely outperformed.

Sebastians D2a is 'slightly' better than a LS8 above 95kn, both full. (ask me how I know).

Nice to see a Std ship doing well but without more real information its hard to draw a hard conclusion relative to the Arcus.

2T