HP14

On 1/21/2017 12:36 AM, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
Yeah, what Steve said!
--Bob K.

Ditto everything Steve L. & Bob K. have said. That's with 2260 hrs in
landing-flapped-only gliders, 196 in an HP-14...nearly always rigged/derigged
each flight, never with more than one additional person (on the wingtip,
including - more than once! - a 5', 120-ish lb lady
glider-pilot/fellow-club-member-friend, wingtip helper on the HP-14). Most
everyone readily offers hearsay, typically without labeling it as such, the
more so when it comes to "non-mainstream gliders." Sometimes, it's even
"generally accurate"...though the devil is always in the details. Best to get
the details from those with first-hand experience.

The only reason I sold my HP-14 when I did was it (1981) fell only into the
open class had I chosen to fly it in contests, and I wanted a ship in which if
I came in last I'd be certain it was due to the pilot and not the ship.
Wonderful bird, which encourages/rewards attention to rudder use, at least in
the as-designed-span, V-tailed, form.

Bob W.