More getting gliders in front of the masses....

"Tony" wrote in message ...
As far as I can tell a high performance competitive sailplane has
always cost about the same as a house. Sort of like a new Corvette.

When people ask me how much gliders cost I usually say "as much as you
want to spend".

Usually anywhere from $2500 to $250,000 will do the job.

I usually say, it is like sail boats. You can have a lot of fun sailing a dingy and a lot of fun racing in the America Cup. Fun is fun and it is not necessarily proportional to the value of boat you are sailing. The same is true in the world of soaring. I fly a HP-14 which I purchased for $6,500 (I have invested about $3,000 in up-grades over the years) and it provides me a great dead of fun and is within my recreation budget.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F

Originally Posted by Wayne Paul

"Tony" wrote in message ...
As far as I can tell a high performance competitive sailplane has
always cost about the same as a house. Sort of like a new Corvette.

When people ask me how much gliders cost I usually say "as much as you
want to spend".

Usually anywhere from $2500 to $250,000 will do the job.

I usually say, it is like sail boats. You can have a lot of fun sailing a dingy and a lot of fun racing in the America Cup. Fun is fun and it is not necessarily proportional to the value of boat you are sailing. The same is true in the world of soaring. I fly a HP-14 which I purchased for $6,500 (I have invested about $3,000 in up-grades over the years) and it provides me a great dead of fun and is within my recreation budget.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F

Wayne, you are absolutely right. I humbly retract my previous statements. The roots of the of soaring's terminal illness in the US lie elsewhere.....

Wayne Paul wrote:

When people ask me how much gliders cost I usually say "as much as you
want to spend".


When folks ask me how much a glider costs, I usually ask an other
question, "how much does a car cost?". This subject has been beaten to
death but we've all seen young adult guys (usually), with kids in tow,
show up at the field to watch. You *know* that they're interested but
even if they had the money, which they don't, they wouldn't have the time.

Tony

On Aug 20, 11:08*am, "Wayne Paul" wrote:
"Tony" wrote in ...
As far as I can tell a high performance competitive sailplane has
always cost about the same as a house. *Sort of like a new Corvette.

When people ask me how much gliders cost I usually say "as much as you
want to spend".

Usually anywhere from $2500 to $250,000 will do the job.

I usually say, it is like sail boats. *You can have a lot of fun sailing a dingy and a lot of fun racing in the America Cup. *Fun is fun and it is not necessarily proportional to the value of boat you are sailing. *The same is true in the world of soaring. *I fly a HP-14 which I purchased for $6,500 (I have invested about $3,000 in up-grades over the years) and it provides me a great dead of fun and is within my recreation budget.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F

Amen. We have a very active glider port with one of the largest
collections of 1-26s around (including one which was in the lead on
the US OLC until last week). We also have a pretty large fleet of
second-generation glass. Even a couple current-generation birds.
We all seem to have a hell of a lot of fun, at price points ranging
from about $3500 (half a 1-26) up to maybe $100K. Well, excluding of
course the guy who put about 120 hours on the club's 1-34 for about
$300/year.

P3