On Oct 28, 12:11 am, "Sleepy" u38628@uwe wrote:
What would be the need for a medium performance sailplane that can be built
for under $1500 and in less than 200 hours? No carbon fiber, no fiberglass.
Not a hang glider nor foot launched. Please don't laugh. This is entirely
practical in my shop. What I'm asking is, is there a need and a market for
this. I do not plan to manufacture this plane but I would sell plans.
Thanks

Stan Hall did this 40 years ago. It's called the Cherokee 2. You would
be hard pressed to better
with less. Simple wood structure with no fancy materials(douglas fir
instead of sitka spruce) ,no
welding, etc. Designed for a high school kid with more time than
money- paraphasing his words.
Satn also commented that you can make it quick, or cheap- but not
both.
In any case, a study of what Stan did is a textbook example of how to
go
about making a cheap, simple glider.
Tony C.- want to ring in on this?
UH