Kirk Stant wrote:
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Anyway, what is the response to the PW-5 in France these days?


As far as I know, 5 of them are registred. 2 of them were bought
for the first World Air Games where they were flown by Julien
Henry and Frederic Hoyeau who got the 2 first places. A third one
came in France on this occasion as the winner's prize and is always
in the club of Chartres, the club of the 2 winners, as Fred considered
that the whole team rather than just himself won the glider and so
it should belong to the club. The same both pilots won also in a different
order the first World Class Championship, after that they returned to
more common gliders of higher performance. I don't know who owns the
2 remaning ones. During my last stay in St Auban, our national center,
for my intructor rating, I saw one of them in a hangar, never out,
maybe it is one of the 2 who were at the first Air Games. There was also
a PW6 and I had some flights on it, at this time it was the only glider
allowed to spin, formerly this was done on Grobs, but a recent AD prohibit
it now.