2nd High Performance Single Place Glider
Soaring Society of Boulder members may now take advantage of a second high performance Discus CS.
Our president has memorialized some notes on the new Discus, N42CA (TR)...
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N42CA - Schempp-Hirth Discus CS
Specifications for Discus CS
- Span 15.0 m./ 49.2 ft
- Area 10.58 sq. m. / 113.9 sq.ft.
- Aspect ratio TBA
- Airfoil
- Empty weight 258 kg. / 503 lb.
- Payload 297 kg. / 654 lb.
- Water ballast 180 kg. / 397 lb.
- Gross weight 525 kg. / 1157 lb.
- Wing loading 49.62 kg. / sq. m. / 10.16 lb. / sq. ft.
- Structure Fiberglass
Performance
- L/D max. 43 100 kph / 54 kt / 62 mph
- Min. sink 0.59 m/s / 1.94 fps / 1.15 kt