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DG-300 or LS-3?
On 4/23/2010 5:39 PM, noel.wade wrote:
On Apr 23, 5:04 pm, wrote: My 2-cents worth..............coming from a guy who flies a 13m glider! Yeah, but even your 13M ship has a flap handle... I want one of those!! I feel so inadequate without one... ;-) --Noel P.S. I slacked off at work today and correlated data from Idaflieg and various Johnson Reports. At 80 knots the DG-300 achieves a glide- ratio of about 27:1. By comparison, the LS-3 can get 31:1. That is a difference of only 30' of altitude each mile. When Moffat and Johnson and others wrote a lot of their reports back in the 1970's and 1980's, the idea of high wing-loadings for faster competition flying was not yet in-vogue... so they didn't cover it much. But in strong conditions (i.e. Ephrata or other competition sites in the western USA), the benefits of a heavier flapped ship like the LS-3 are pretty significant (on paper at least). |
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