Andrew,

The HP14 was designed in 1964 and made available in kit form in 1965.
Slingsby also built a few. Mine was completed in 1972; however, I didn't
build it. It is advertised to have a glide ration of 40 to 1, but I believe
mine is only about 36 to 1. It is a metal (aluminum) glider built using
flush rivets.

So far my best flight is a 300 km triangle flown out of Mackay, Idaho.
http://www.soaridaho.com/Flights/6F_Gold_Distance.html
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...tId=1134806661
The GoogleEarth file is located at
http://www.soaridaho.com/Flights/GE/Gold_Distance.kmz

It is old and will not keep up with the modern composit sailplane; however,
I'm having a lots of fun!!

Wayne
HP14 "Six Foxtrot)
http://www.soaridaho.com/


"Andrew B" wrote in message
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The Schreder HP-14 looks a lot more modern and with the pretty great
thermals you must get around there you can probably stay up an awful lot
longer than they do at Camphill.

It is interesting that so many KA-8's were built though I suspect that
there are still quite a few flying in the UK.

Just for information the Camphill web site http://www.dlgc.org.uk/
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Andrew B (Cheshire, England)