A narrow fuselage version with an 18-metre span, the Ventus 2cxa has also been built. The narrow fuselage Ventus-2a has been highly successful in competitions with consecutive World Championship wins from 1995 to 2003. ![]() Flight tests in 1996 showed that the 15 metre version had a glide angle of 46:1 but only after considerable work on sealing gaps and by using turbulators. The 18 metre span Ventus-2c was introduced in 1995 and was almost an entirely different aircraft with a different fuselage and wings, but it has the option of shorter tips with winglets to fly as a 15-metre sailplane.įrom 2003 the Schempp-Hirth Discus-2 fuselage was used for all versions, which now have the designations 2ax, 2bx and 2cx. The 'a' version has a narrow fuselage and the wider fuselage version is called the 2b. The Ventus-2a and 2b are 15 metre sailplanes. It replaced the highly successful Schempp-Hirth Ventus. ![]() The Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2 is a sailplane produced by Schempp-Hirth since 1994.
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