"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message
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In article , "303pilot"

It's a nice picture which first appeared on the cover Sailplane &
Gliding about five or so years ago. It's not a photograph, but a
montage of the glider and the sunset.

Ya think?!?
Nah, I'm pretty sure they got that channel crossing rag jumper to sneak up
behind the glider at dawn with a disposable camera and take the shot from
6-8 feet back before he shot past it at 250 or so.
C'mon.....


The cover shot can be seen at

http://www.healthandfitnessmag.com/index.html

but frankly, the glider looks like just about every other fiberglass
glider, so that limits it's appeal to "sexy" instead of "very sexy".
The intended audience should be blown away, however.

The point is what the intended audience thinks. It may be a 25+ yr old
design to us cognoscenti, but what matters is the impression it will make on
the audience.
In promoting our sport, it doesn't matter what we think--what matters is the
impression made on the target.
Too often our knowledge gets in the way of reaching new people. I've heard
conversations like below:
Newbie at the field - "Wow, that's a really cool looking ship!"
Old Glider Fart - "No it's not. That ship was new in '75 and hasn't been
produced since the early 80's. It's a hunk of junk compared to the newer
ships. There's an ASW 29.7ecgxt. Now that's a fine ship"

The Old Glider Fart may be technically correct, but why call a newbie
stupid? It's a big world, large enough even for folks who are blown away by
the idea of floating around the field in a 2-33.

not an attack on you Eric, just using your words to illustrate a point
about how we as a group sometimes treat our visitors

Brent