On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:11:12 -0700, Ian
wrote:

It used to be like that at Sutton Bank. People would queue all day for
an hour in a DG-300 ... leaving the Ka-8 free for me to fly whenever I
wanted, for as long as I wanted. I wonder how much of that sort of
attitude is desire or need for performance, and how much is sheer
snobbery?

Our Ka-8 is still used extensively, since the students need to fly 40
hrs (total) till they are allowed to fly the 300.

There was a condition, wasn't there, that the plans had to be
available to multiple manufacturers? I suppose that would have put S-H
off a bit. But then, how many manufacturers ever made PW-5's?

Did anyone ever ask SH or LS to publish the blueprints of their
out-of-production Discus and LS-4?


Bye
Andreas