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  1. Maintenance Canopy Performance Enhancements

    Sealing the Canopy

    January 03, 2019

    Improve performance and reduce noise

    It is an art. Back in the day before kids, I was into tuning my trusty new-to-me Discus 2AX. In the evenings and on rainy days I sealed it. I spent roughly 100 hours sealing the glider. How much did it help? "If you make the ship one percent better, you fly five percent better!" Klaus Holighaus from George Moffat's book, Winning 2.  If you have not

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