On Jan 27, 11:35*am, Berry wrote:
In article
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*Tony wrote:
On Jan 26, 8:50*pm, wrote:
On Jan 26, 7:02*pm, Mike wrote:

Things are getting desperate here on RAS!

I'll bite.
I LOVE MY 2-33.
And my 1-26.
Real men don't do silver badges in glass!
Take That!
UH

and the PW-5 is beautiful (actually I think they're kind of cute in
their own special way)

Yeah, I don't understand why the PW is considered ugly. They are not to
my taste, but I don't find them repulsive.

Still a crying shame that the World Class design competition turned out
the way that it did. Some of the design requirements were silly, in
hindsight. Had to be able to be kit built, short wings, fixed gear. Too
bad the process precluded the likes of the LS-4 or even some out of
production ship like the LS-1f, ASW-19, or Glasflugel Hornet.

Now, I know there is a lot of affection for the LS-4. But my pick would
have been the Hornet. Beautiful, roomy, robust structure, easy to
assemble, Glasflugel. What more would one want? Yes, the LS-4 is SO easy
to fly and pleasant, but the handling just feels sort of dead to me. A
Glasflugel ship talks to it's pilot in a thermal. The Hornet and
Mosquito not quite so vociferously as the Libelles, but the Glasflugel
liveliness is still there in those types.

So there you have it, the LS-4 is crap, Glasflugel's rule!

Huh? What's that? My meds? Ah, no, not this morning...
Personally, I thought the Cygnet P1C was a sharp looking sailplane and
may have attracted more interest to the WGC.