$75,000 2-33

On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 9:23:21 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 11:07:38 AM UTC-6, wrote:
Just when you thought you've seen it all. Wings and Wheels has listed a beautifully restored 2-33 for a mere $75K http://wingsandwheels.com/classifieds

When its 100 degrees in Texas and you take a auto in a 2-33 and catch a 6 knot thermal to cloud base at 7500, there is really nothing in soaring quite as sweet being in the back seat with the window open to that 65 degree air on your left arm resting on the edge of the open window. If you have not made a big climb in the back seat of a 2-33, you might not really know what soaring is all about.

Bill Snead

Or when it's a 45 degree April Sunday in Ohio and you take a tow in a 2-33 to catch a 3 knot thermal to cloudbase at 5500 and run out to Middletown and back under a dark cloud street there's nothing as cold as being in the back seat with your coat pulled up around your ears and your hands jammed down in your pockets and sleet howling in all around the canopy. If you have not frozen your a** off in the back seat of a 2-33, you might not really know what soaring is all about.

WB (and Crew Chief Mary Jo who was doing the driving).

N9727S - that number looked familiar, so I checked my logbook. Half my training and first solo on Nov 11, 1973 was in that ship.
Tucson Soaring Club at Ryan Field.
After getting my private a year later shortly after my 16th birthday it looks like I gave quite few rides in it. Had a total of 125 hours and 51 hours in just this 2-33. Had another 126 flights and 69 hours in N17963 the club's other 2-33. All this before getting my CFIG in 1980.

5Z

On Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 7:32:28 PM UTC-8, wrote:
N9727S - that number looked familiar, so I checked my logbook. Half my training and first solo on Nov 11, 1973 was in that ship.
Tucson Soaring Club at Ryan Field.
After getting my private a year later shortly after my 16th birthday it looks like I gave quite few rides in it. Had a total of 125 hours and 51 hours in just this 2-33. Had another 126 flights and 69 hours in N17963 the club's other 2-33. All this before getting my CFIG in 1980.

5Z

And now it has more avionics than your ASW27... :-)

Does nobody else see the irony of the J. Richard's post from 20 years ago? There hasn't been a Blanik L-13 flying in the US for the past 7 years. But the fat, ugly, 2-33 keeps on going and producing new pilots. And didn't the operation at Jean Nevada go back to the 2-33? And have a mid-air between the Pawnee and the 2-33 from which the dodgy old girl brought both pilots back safe and sound?
ROY

An interesting contribution to the discussion going on here is a new series on YouTube called 'Glide Britain', launched just a few days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAs...H5nag/featured

British glider clubs introduce themselves one after another to the viewers, explaining how they work. Lots of young people...