On Friday, January 3, 2014 2:24:27 PM UTC-5, Paul T wrote:
The Discus 2 is now well over 15 years old - why is there nothing better in Standard Class? Has glider design reached a plateau in terms of performance in the Standard Class?

Nobody is buying new Std class gliders, in part because it is a quietly shrinking class.
There is no market incentive for manufacturers to develop a new glider, especially when they can put their effort into the popular 18 meter gliders that the wealthy glider buying class seems to want while generating susstantially more revenue per sale.
For racers, this is actaully a good thing because there are plenty of D2's,28's LS-8's, etc that can be had reasonably and allow a pilot to be competitive.
One view
UH