At 22:45 02 February 2009, Jim Beckman wrote:
At 17:03 02 February 2009, Andreas Maurer wrote:

Well... as there are practically no World Class gliders flying in
Europe (read: World Class is being ignored by 80 percent of the
world's gliding pilots), you'd better name it "US class"... or
dwarf class"...

Short Wings Gliders might account for 5 pct of world fleet
if 20 percent of the world's gliding pilots are interested
it will be a great success!!!!!


Can't say that it's overwhelmingly popular in the US, either. The
World
Class US Nationals have been running concurrently with the 1-26
Championships, and it seems like there are 4 to 5 times as many 1-26s as
there are PW-5s.

it makes sense..........
1-26 700 built for usa only
PW-5 200 built for the world

unless Arnold's friend comes around and pull out another
Judas trick like he did here in the last supper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VnTO...eature=related

and you get bread, fish and PW-5 multiplied ..................