MOST UGLY GLIDER ?

I did rather plagiarise the Most beautiful thread of course.

But is your t'other half really arguing, does he have permission to do that?

:-)

Malcolm...



"MickiMinner" wrote in message
oups.com...
Ok, now an argument has REALLY started. My husband and I are
disagreeing about the ugliest glider. I say a genesis is (short
squatty), whereas my husband says the genesis is really quite lovely.
His vote is for the "whale" RHJ-?.
I dunno, but Malcom, I don't have pictures of either, but you really
made us spit out our coffee laughing while reading your new thread.

And you admit in writing that the T53 was above you, WOW !!

I don't mind admitting that a Kestrel 18 was above my K6 over Denbigh
though, (and the CFI was flying it, so it must be better...)

Malcolm...

"Robin Birch" wrote in message
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In message cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-tLs9zUBNVz8l@localhost, Ian Johnston
writes
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:44:36 UTC, Asbjorn Hojmark
wrote:

: That'll have to be a tie between the SZD-25 Lis

I'd never seen one of them before. It's lovely - I want one!

Ian

PS Ugliest? Dead heat between Kronfeld's "Austria", Slingsby/YS-53 and
Bijave.

Having sat in wave at Port Moak back in October and watched a T53 (The
original slingsby one, not the later YS) higher than me - I was in a Duo -
I am a little careful about what I say about them :-)

Robin

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Robin Birch

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:20:46 UTC, Robin Birch
wrote:

: In message cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-tLs9zUBNVz8l@localhost, Ian Johnston
: writes

: PS Ugliest? Dead heat between Kronfeld's "Austria", Slingsby/YS-53 and
: Bijave.
:
: Having sat in wave at Port Moak back in October and watched a T53 (The
: original slingsby one, not the later YS) higher than me - I was in a Duo
: - I am a little careful about what I say about them :-)

Is that Eoin MacDonalds? I once got a wonderfully peeved reaction from
the owner of a private Ventus, 11,000' aboce Sutton Bank when he
looked round and saw me beside him in the club Ka8 ...

Ian

Plastic gliders..

Has to be the PW5...
Closely followed by the Genesis with the runner up being that hideaous
motor glider Rutan Designed (Solitaire).

Wooden has to be the the following Flying plank, Bijave, Any of the
Fauvel flying wings.

Tin has to be anything SGS....(232 might be the one half decent one
they made if viewed from 200ft away)

Al

Be nice now ! My whale isn't so ugly.
Perhaps you're just referring to the redneck paint job
(ie, many different colors and needing a paint job).
Its predecessor RHJ-7 is a bit dowdy, but not ugly...
See ya, Dave

PS: See what happens next time he wants a ride in it !

In article ,
Asbjorn Hojmark wrote:

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:41:19 GMT, "Malcolm Austin"
wrote:

I see in another thread that some are looking for the prettiest gliders,
set me thinking, what's the ugliest (and picture links if possible please!

That'll have to be a tie between the SZD-25 Lis and the PW-5 Smyk.

http://www.piotrp.de/SZYBOWCE/dszd25.htm
http://www.piotrp.de/SZYBOWCE/dpw5.htm

-A

Hmm, That's the first time I've even heard of the Lis. I think it is
fairly attractive. The Poles have built some of the most beautiful
gliders ever. We should give them a break about the poor Smyk.

At the National Soaring Museum we have over 75 gliders, and pictures of
many more.

There are no ugly gliders.

So what is a Smyk anyway???

Peter Smith wrote:
At the National Soaring Museum we have over 75 gliders, and pictures of
many more.

There are no ugly gliders.

Let me pose the question a different way: "What is the best looking
glider?". Would you have an opinion then, or would you say: "They are
all equally good looking"?

Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Sociologists did a
study of beauty using infants who, presumably, have no preconceived
notion of beauty. They were shown pictures of all types of women and
their reactions were recorded. The babies definitely had a much more
positive response to what most of us would call beautiful women.

Tom Seim

"MickiMinner" wrote in message
oups.com...
Ok, now an argument has REALLY started. My husband and I are
disagreeing about the ugliest glider. I say a genesis is (short
squatty), whereas my husband says the genesis is really quite lovely.
His vote is for the "whale" RHJ-?.
I dunno, but Malcom, I don't have pictures of either, but you really
made us spit out our coffee laughing while reading your new thread.


Here is a picture a RHJ-8
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/RHJ/C-FAJT.html
which is much nicer than an RHJ-7
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/RHJ/N7514.html