John Bojack wrote:
For some reason, the US has not caught on to the 18m class. Why is that?
(ie. no 18m regional competitions, only one nationals.)

Actually, there was at least one 18M regional contest in the US this
year, Region 11 at Minden. It was pretty successful (7 gliders, out of
26 total), and we will no doubt do it again next year.

BTW, this contest (and the winner of the 2004 US 18M Nationals) points
out a possible reason why 18M racing is not quite as popular as some
expected, 15M gliders are very often faster on the same tasks...

Marc