It all comes down to money.
Gliding isn't large enough to support the large capital expenditures
to automate the manufacturing processes and I'm not sure making
gliders a fair bit cheaper would actually increase sales by all that
much as the sport appeals to a limited number of people, including a
limited number of people who are already pilots.
Mike
At 12:58 PM 12/14/2016, you wrote:
>>I do believe though that for the wings at least most have gone to
CNC aluminium moulds.
The German ones I saw were resin and about 7 years ago.
However, two years in Dubai, I saw keels being machined out of solid
steel billets inside machines which were large enough to fit a truck
and other even larger CNC machines being used to machine one piece
moulds for one-off 60' boats. There were also autoclaves as large as
factories for cooking the parts.
D
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