At 16:18 09 July 2018, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 11:26:25 PM UTC-7, Ian wrote:
On 07/07/2018 00:59, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
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Schleicher and Schempp have a long history of making great
gliders.
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nkers has started that tradition too, however they have only produced
a
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dful of gliders compared to the other two listed.
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The Jonkers started out with the aim of building a world class 18m
ship.=
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In the upcoming world championships 17 out of 46 in the 18m class
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Jonkers so I guess they have achieved that.
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I would have thought that competing with a 21m glider against
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gliders would be like taking a knife to gun fight. But 17 out of 32=20
entries in open class are JS1c's. That's over 50% of the entries!
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have changed the nature of open class.
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Then there are 5 out of 37 JS3's in the just started 15m
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They were placed 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 12th yesterday.
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Of course there are no Jonkers gliders in the club class! Most of
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club class fleet were built when the Jonker brothers were still at
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..
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What is surprising about their achievement, is not that they
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designed and built world competitive gliders, not that they are=20
competitive in 3 different classes. But the speed with which they
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managed to progress from drawing board (computer) to prototype
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production and certification.

Jonkers have saved the open class. Too bad the Quintus didn't make it
to
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ull production, I understand it handles MUCH better than a JS-c-21.
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SH makes a Nimbus 5 or Quintus 2 or AS makes a follow on to their
amazing
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ASW-22. I loved the open class, in the air, not so much on the ground.

You could have bought an Antares 23......