At 14:27 07 September 2017, Tango Whisky wrote:
Le jeudi 7 septembre 2017 13:30:07 UTC+2, Paul T a
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or maybe it wasn't supported by several prominent national=20
aeroclubs/national gliding organisations which primarily have
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dominated by wealthy individuals with expensive toys that tend to
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focus resources on their bit of the playing field and not on others.

Nonsense. In the price range of the PW5, and below, there has always
been
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he Club class (or Sports class) which is extremely popular in Europe.

The PW5 story stalled because there was just no incentive to buy a brand
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w, very ugly glider when you can have more performance for less money
by
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ying a nice looking Cirrus.


NO there hasn't always been the Club Class - that didn't evolve until the
90's - and that took awhile to get established for the same reasons. You
think a Std. Cirrus is nice looking? Looks like a humped back whale to me -

always thought it was the ugliest of the first generation Std. Class ships.