Scheibe/Alliance SF-34

It's hard to find any decent 2 seaters in the U.S. right now. Even tired
old L-13's are hard to come by at a reasonable price. The PW-6 looks
like a good trainer, but with the dollar weak, even that is too
expensive. Howsabout talking HPH into building a 2 seat equivalent to
the 304c?

That would be a great idea....and I know it has at least crossed the minds
of the HpH team...but the cost to develop a new two seat trainer and bring
it to the market would today be I think, intolerable. We're even seeing
resistance to the high costs of older and current designs in the two place
market and the development costs of these were covered years ago. I doubt
there is market enough for 100-200 new two seat gliders at
$100,000 -$150,000 each today and that's likely what would be needed for
anyone to be successful with a new design.

Speaking of Glasflugels: What ever happened to that 2 place side-by-side
Glasflugel design?

that and many other "Hanle" brainstorms were unfortunately lost with his
untimely passing.
tim