Christopher J. Wilson wrote:

A glider with 1940's performance made for a single
design competition at a y2k price that looks like the
pw5 is destined to failure in gliding and will never
represent 'value for money'.

Let's at least keep it real: Pilots would've killed for a PW5 in the
40's. Even the widely acclaimed (and rightly so) Standard Class champion
in the early '60s (Ka-6e) doesn't have the performance of the PW5, and
it was more costly.

I suspect for many people, "failure" means "I can't buy the new glider I
desire for half price". The people buying and flying them have a
different measure of success.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA