On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 2:02:34 PM UTC-5, Mark628CA wrote:
OK- Now that everybody has chimed in with reasons to have wire deflectors (or not), does anybody have a viable design that will work with a modern sailplane? I would be interested in seeing if a deflector is practical to use. Got a lot of barb wire out here in the desert, and I knew a pilot who lost an eye and got some pretty bad scars from having a wire slice into his canopy.

Chip has them (OEM?) in his ASW-24, likely the first time I saw them in a sailplane.
I would consider a ASW-24 "fairly modern".