Rowan Griffin wrote:

I fully agree with you about the bendy wing, it was
the sheer weight of rigging I was referring to. The
one I flew had much heavier wings than another I helped
rig some years later and I was told it had a carbon
spar??

The C model, which I flew for 11 years, did not have a carbon spar. It's
wing was the same weight (and structurally the same) at the original ASW
20 (sometimes called the A model). The wing had a different airfoil,
blow-hole turbulators, mylar control gap fairings, and only a 40 degree
landing flap. Also, it had the automatic hookup elevator, a shock
absorbing gear design with a 500 x 5 wheel and a disk brake.

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