On Aug 20, 11:08*am, "Wayne Paul" wrote:
"Tony" wrote in ...
As far as I can tell a high performance competitive sailplane has
always cost about the same as a house. *Sort of like a new Corvette.

When people ask me how much gliders cost I usually say "as much as you
want to spend".

Usually anywhere from $2500 to $250,000 will do the job.

I usually say, it is like sail boats. *You can have a lot of fun sailing a dingy and a lot of fun racing in the America Cup. *Fun is fun and it is not necessarily proportional to the value of boat you are sailing. *The same is true in the world of soaring. *I fly a HP-14 which I purchased for $6,500 (I have invested about $3,000 in up-grades over the years) and it provides me a great dead of fun and is within my recreation budget.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F

Amen. We have a very active glider port with one of the largest
collections of 1-26s around (including one which was in the lead on
the US OLC until last week). We also have a pretty large fleet of
second-generation glass. Even a couple current-generation birds.
We all seem to have a hell of a lot of fun, at price points ranging
from about $3500 (half a 1-26) up to maybe $100K. Well, excluding of
course the guy who put about 120 hours on the club's 1-34 for about
$300/year.

P3