Mark Stevens wrote in message ...
To follow up on my earlier comments, I also did not
find it a spin prone glider..

It's interesting that yours was placarded against deliberate
spinning - ours was not. And although they're on different
registers (and I sold my share in 1997) it would be
interesting to know why your is..

I'll have a look in the manual tonight (it's stashed away for the
winter somewhere in my office at home), and see if that says anything.
But as far as memory (however fading) serves me, there is nothing
prohibiting spinning in there.

The placard, for all I can see, appears to be an original, supplied
from the factory (same typeface, color etc). It says "No aerobatic
manouvers, including spins". Originally the Libelle had its first home
in Sweden, if that may have anything to do with it?

As for serial number, it's # 566. If there is a difference related to
that, I would expect it to be between the 201 and the 201B version?

Anyway, it doesn't matter a lot to me - I don't spin it. Having worked
hard to win altitude (some of us must hard work to make up for lack of
talent....), I don't want to blow it away again by spinning. I prefer
using it to glide to some far-away muddy farmer's field and land there
:-(

Bo