On Friday, May 16, 2014 2:34:57 PM UTC-4, Gary Ittner wrote:
wrote :



- interesting to see how wing's loading was limited to 50 kg/m per square

meter in favor of older ventus designs...



I think it was a direct attack on the Diana 2's... the V2/29/27's couldn't

compete with it at 58kg/sqm.





The maximum certificated wing loadings for the gliders at the Sisteron Grand

Prix a



LS 8 50.00 kg/sqm



Ventus 2 54.29 kg/sqm



ASW 27 55.56 kg/sqm



Diana 2 57.87 kg/sqm



ASG 29/15 59.80 kg/sqm



If restricting all the gliders to the same 50 kg/sqm wing loading "hurts"

the Diana 2, it hurts the ASG 29/15 even more. So how is this a direct

attact on the Diana 2 ?



Gary Ittner P7

"Have glider, will race"

Not necessarily. The airfoil of Diana 2 was designed to climb very well at high wing loading. There is a Diana 2 design paper. It was a very interesting read.