On Monday, 14 August 2017 18:07:49 UTC-6, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
The "New Ventus" is designed as a 15/18 meter glider. Same with the JS-3 15/18 but in the JS-3 they chose to focus on the 15 meter version before the 18 meter version, just reverse of the Ventus, 18 before 15 meter. So the two newest gliders are designed for 15/18 meters, that is the view of the future, two class gliders.

On Monday, August 14, 2017 at 6:50:51 AM UTC-7, Ron Gleason wrote:
On Monday, 14 August 2017 02:28:47 UTC-6, krasw wrote:
On Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:04:20 UTC+3, Tim Taylor wrote:
The balance shifted in about 2015 with more of the pilots moving to the 15/18m gliders rather than straight 15m.

I bet you can count straight 15m gliders manufactured after 2005 with your 10 fingers.

This paragraph was posted on the Schempp-Hirth FB page

"Apart from it being a tradition, we celebrated the deliveries of both the 700th Duo Discus, the 250 Arcus (see below) and, in a few weeks, the upcoming deliveries of the 200th Discus-2c and the very last produced Ventus-2."

If they are not producing the V2 anymore and the "New Ventus" is currently only 18M what does that say about the or their view of the future?

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Ron Gleason

I have heard the 15/18M approach for the new Ventus but nothing on their website