More 3's?

If you watch some of the earlier video's of this race you will hear the commentators' talk about how rough Kawa"s JS-1C is and how much work he did not it prior to the race. Might be a factor.

On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 12:25:50 AM UTC-8, krasw wrote:
torstai 18. tammikuuta 2018 5.14.33 UTC+2 kirjoitti:
You will need an ASG-33 not to outfly a V3 - but the JS-3. The V3 and JS-1c (18m) match each other with the same wingloading as seen in Chile yesterday - and the JS-3 is a decade newer than the JS-1.....

Maybe I am just biased being a South African - but I am thinking the Germans have some catching up to do in the next few years. The JS-3 is going to be unbeatable in 15m and 18m Classes - and the JS-1c will still be very competitive in the Open Class in any competition. This advantage will be even greater where wingloading is a factor (strong days) and especially where it's weight that's limited, and not wingloading (like the Sailplane GrandPrix).

Sebastian Kawa commented that V3 was much better in final glide, and it was quite obvious just by watcing races. No doubt engineers at Schleicher are at drawing board as we speak. Currently only interesting thing is how V3 and JS3 compares, JS1 and '29 belong to previous generation.

a factor in what? how he was able to reel in V3's on the last two racing days? how he is leading overall with 2 days to go?

Would you rather have the best glider in the world or be the best pilot in the world? It’s obvious who that is.

The beauty of the Sailplane Grand Prix is that by controlling wingloading - they effectively handicap the latest gliders. This allows pilot skill to shine through even if flying the previous generation of 18m gliders.

Anyone know why none of the JS3s in the Australian Nationals are no
longer flying?

At 07:03 19 January 2018, wrote:
The beauty of the Sailplane Grand Prix is that by controlling wingloading
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they effectively handicap the latest gliders. This allows pilot skill to
shine through even if flying the previous generation of 18m gliders.

1 is still flying
1 was damaged during an outlanding
1 unknown

CJ

P.S. It's a damn shame that Norm's 179.6kph in his new JS3 was reduced to a leisurely 167.8kph due coming home 14 minutes under time It would have been trumped the very deserving winner by over 5%

CJ

Yes. Saw a couple of them a few weeks ago at Waikerie
1 damaged outlanding, 2 had tailwheel retract cable swaging issues, in one case causing other damage.
All had same problem, from new.
Hmmmm....