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Old October 6th 20, 06:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Paul T[_4_]
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At 15:39 06 October 2020, jfitch wrote:
They are claiming 63:1, that is 7 points higher than AS claim of 56:1. I
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ink it is best explained by a mistake in their math. I'd be interested in
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eeing the test data proving it.=20

On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 12:53:25 AM UTC-7, Carlo Orsini

wrote:
Thank you for your first hand infos, those are good news for me (I

don't
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understand why they advertise these dimensions in a different way).

JS2
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ms to be a nice project overall. Hard to me to understand where they
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ed out those +4 points of efficency in 21m, according to their

calculated
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olars, compared to ASH31 (yes I know that '31 profiles are a bit
superseede=
d and the aspect ratio is a factor too but 4 points are a huge

amount!!).
Those two dimensions for the JS2 and the ASH31 are clearly not

be
compa=
rable - one internal cockpit rim and one external I guess. The 525mm
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er width for the JS2 is exactly the same as the quoted figure for the

JS1
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and JS3) and the JS1 cockpit roominess is fully equal to the ASH26/31

from
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which it was derived. I have 4 years in a JS1 followed by 2 in the ASH

26e
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and they are so similar that it would be hard to know which cockpit I

was
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n with my eyes closed. Looking at the JS2 cockpit photographs it

obvious
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at its structural cockpit rim design is the same as the 31, 26 and JS1.

JS
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do not make small cockpits.


I believe the Idafleig measured a JS1C at 63:1......so the JS2 witH its
few improvements on the JS1C should achieve that....