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At 01:36 10 December 2003, Arnold Pieper wrote:
Jeez, This things comes full circle about once every 2 weeks it seems... The only one-design class I know of is the 'World Class' (the PW-5), there are no others. Gee, where I come from the most active one design is 1-26ers. The LS-4 and the Jantars are 'Standard Class' gliders, which were competitive in this class during the 70s. Today, you can fly all of them in the sports class (since this class uses handicap), where you can in fact mix both old and new together. The PW-5 was designed to be the Olympic class glider, and therefore be easily manufactured by anybody (in the same way the Olympic sail boats such as the Star, Laser, 49er, etec which are manufacture in many countries at various costs). For those who want to compete in the olympic games, this is the way. I was not aware that soaring was in the Olympics. For those with big budgets and ocean crossing aspirations, there are many other 'Professional' classes, all the way up to the Maxis, Volvo Ocean Racers, or the Americas Cup (for those who like spending millions in local 'drag racing'). Likewise in Soaring, PW-5 are for the World Air Games. So traveling to the World games is considered low budget? If you like more performance, buy one of the other classes and have fun. Stop bitching about it. 'Stewart Kissel' wrote in message ... After sifting through the thread and some email discussions with others, I thought I might direct this thread back to where it started from. With the number of racing classes available, and particularly the sports class-maybe one design is the problem as much as the PW5. I get a lot of LS4 promoters, but a new LS-4 built in Eastern Europe(with instruments, trailer, software, parachute) is still going to cost considerably more then the used ASW-20, Ventus, LS6 that are in the low $30k range these days. It would be difficult for me to trade in my Ventus plus at least $20k in order to play the one design game. Now I am not a racer type, but I suspect the one design concept was geared to entry level racers, which I qualify as. So perhaps one design is an idea which was not to be in our current environment. |
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Gee, where I come from the most active one design is 1-26ers. Only available in the US, design is proprietary. (..........) I was not aware that soaring was in the Olympics. It was going to be, but it was aborted in the early 90s. Hence the World Air Games. (................) So traveling to the World games is considered low budget? The same way as traveling to compete in the Olympics with Lasers, Stars, 49rs etc. |
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