Why are you worried about penetration into wind when its obvious that you
would get lost the moment you got out of sight of the airfield trying to
find your way to Reno CA.

The L33 has a wing section like a size 9 slipper compared to the 101 and as
such the 101 fixed gear or even retractable with the gear down would blow
the doors off the L33.

Al
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"Mark James Boyd" wrote in message
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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.