Cirrus vs ASW

"W.J. \(Bill\) Dean \(U.K.\)." wrote:
The Pegasus was also a success because of the lessons learnt when producing
the ASW20 under licence.


Yes. But then the Marianne should have been a greater success from the lessons
of producing the Pegase.

The Pegasus is clearly an unflapped version of the ASW20, just as the LS8 is
an unflapped version of the LS6.

No, this is not true. The fuselage is the same more or less, but the wings are
completely different, with a new design, obtained by public researchers at
ONERA. This has been hashed and rehashed many times. I suppose you will not
object to the point that the wing design is by far the most important point
in the design of a glider, and that almost all performance and handling comes
from that.


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Michel TALON