Thread: Diana 2 FES
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Old October 21st 16, 07:16 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Per Carlin
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Default Diana 2 FES

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 3:12:01 PM UTC+2, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Per Carlin wrote on 10/18/2016 11:15 PM:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 12:46:41 AM UTC+2, Kevin Christner wrote:
Does anyone else think this would be an unbelievable combination?


Why spoil Dianas performace advantage with and FES?


Performance advantage over what? There are many higher performance
gliders than the Diana! ;^)


The Diana2 is solely built for high performance in competitions and they succeeded, for a period was it dominating the 15m class and still should if there were more of them in flying condition.
If you build a best in class glider for competition, why destroy the advantage by putting a drag inducing propeller in the nose? If you need a FES, go for a LAK 17, LAK19 of Discus2 or one of all those new UL. If you need best performance in the 15m class go for a Diana2, but don’t combine them.