Blanik Stops Building Gliders

Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
On Oct 9, 1:22 pm, John Smith wrote:
ContestID67 wrote:
I was just forwarded a note from BLANIK AMERICA, INC (Vitek Siroky)
that Blanik has ceased producing gliders.
Lately I heard the rumour that Ford plans to cease producing the T model.

Sad news. The all metal L-23 has been a venerable 2-place glider for
club operations for many years.

Indeed for very many years. Come on, the Blanik is a 60 year old design
with a L/D of less than 30! By these standards, even the venerable ASK
21 is a high performance ship!

Great! We should all learn to fly in DG 1000's or Duo's I guess! Too
bad most clubs can't afford them. Not to mention that many places
don't have hangers, and glass ships don't seem to tolerate being tied
out endlessly as well as metal gliders. You are right about Blaniks
not being high performance planes, but the L/D of a trainer isn't very
important. Hell, I learned to fly at 23/1!

Hell, I fly a powered plane that is about 3:1 at idle (maybe not even
that!)