Why is there nothing better than a Discus 2a?

Chip Bearden wrote, On 1/4/2014 10:07 PM:
In addition to claimed incrementally higher performance, what the
later designs offered were optional 18m wingtips (although I'm not
sure how many owners opted for these), more crashworthy cockpits (in
the case of the D2 and LS 8; the ASW 24's already outstanding design
was the basis for the ASW 27, ASW 28, and ASG 29 fuselages) and
perhaps a bit easier, though not necessarily better, thermaling.

The ASH 26 also used the ASW 24 cockpit design concepts, as have all
succeeding Schleicher gliders (with improvements along the way, of
course). I don't think the ASH 25 incorporated the 24's concepts, as
it's design seems to pre-date the 24, and it flew first, about a year
earlier.

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