On 25 Dec, 21:11, Brad wrote:

What would the ideal recreational next generation sailplane sailplane
look like?

My guess is that things will continue much as they a ever more
sophisticated and beautiful aircraft, ever fewer pilots flying them.
Gliding - in the UK anyway - will continue its inexorable progress
from one of the cheapest air sports to one of the more expensive.

It would be nice if modern design and construction techniques could
trickle down to give us low priced gliders of moderate performance ...
but the abject failure of the PW-5 and world class suggests that this
isn't a commercially viable hope.

Ian