Stewart Kissel wrote:
Cheap with performance...then lets pitch the one design(which
is really who can trick out their ship the most and
gain L/d, thus defeating the concept)

I don't think so, as the usual "tricks" won't add more than a few
percentage points, and are available to all of the competitors anyway.

In any case, the cost of these "tricks" is a lot less than the "tricks"
the manufacturers can add to their new gliders, and then the competitors
do the usual tricks in addition. New glider + usual tricks is a
significant gain in performance and cost.

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