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We need an ASW-19 rebirth for $25,000
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 7:36:58 PM UTC+3, chipsoars wrote:
anyone remember Lennie the Lurker? On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 11:34:24 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote: Here's your chance, Wilbur/Sean. Sell your ASG-29 and buy 10 used PW-5s and hand them out to deserving individuals and/or clubs. You can ensure your place in history with that one selfless act! But, as was said earlier, you can build something ugly or something pretty (performance, looks, whatever) for the same price, but you won't build thinner airfoils for the same price. If you could, why weren't then done in the past? Hint: it wasn't science, it was technology (theory vs engineering/materials) and the materials to produce the theory cost more, not to mention the labor. Is this thing repeating? To paraphrase Einstein: Saying the same thing over and over again is the definition of insanity. Maybe Sean/Wilbur is simply trying to drive us all mad and we're taking the bait. I'm out (I hope). On 3/21/2017 3:05 AM, wrote: Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!! Thank you Bruce, thank you. Yes that's right. According to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com a PW-5 in today's money would be $23,976. I'll repeat that a second time for clarification $23,976. And a third time for impact $23,976 I rest my case to all you naysayers who say a glider can't be produced at a reasonable cost! There it is. An ASW-19 WAS cutting edge on the production line, a PW-5 was NOT! "If" the PW-5 didn't look like a Volkswagen clown car, it would have revolutionized the sport. Perhaps someone should take a aesthetically pleasing 15 meter popular club class glider and replicate it using the same production quality of the PW-5 and sell them. Here's to hoping a second chance at the great intentions of the PW-5 to someone out there. If we had that, the hopes and dreams of a world class would be a reality, and soaring would be made great again. Sure. Active about 15 years go. Hated progress of any kind. Someone claiming to be him posted this in '14: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec....M/5wH9FeoVwfkJ |
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