I don't know about the fixed gear Pegasus, though I owned and loved a
101A for several years. The Russia, another entry in the World Class
design competition, comes in two fixed gear variants and with a
retracting main wheel. IIRC the retract brings the best L/D up to about
35 from about 31 for the fixed version.

Al
Now with a Discus B

Mark James Boyd wrote:

I wonder what the L/D and penetration would be like
if the PW-5 AND the L-33 had retractable gear?
Would the polar look more like the Pegasus 101?
Anyone have a Pegasus 101 club (fixed gear) polar
we can look at?

Mark


P.S. In a previous post I'd mentioned vibration on
tow at about 80 knots in the PW-5. After reading

www.ssa.org/Johnson/85-1997-04.pdf

it seems this is from the elevator, and "taping up
the relatively large openings on both the
top and bottom surface of the elevator control attach
location, and at the base of the rudder" makes the
elevator vibration problem go away.
Also in the article take a look at
the "wing root air seals," very interesting...
I wonder how many other gliders have these
similar big air holes in the fuse-to-wing.