Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Schempp-Hirth Discus is a Standard Class glider designed by Schempp-Hirth. It was produced in Germany between 1984 and 1995 but has continued in production in the Czech Republic. It replaced the Standard Cirrus. It was designed by Klaus Holighaus.The Discus was the first production sailplane to have a distinctive swept back leading edge- now fairly common in contemporary gliders. Studies had long shown that the ideal wing for minimizing induced drag should be an elliptic planform. To keep production costs down, a triple-trapezoidal approximation of this shape was adopted for the Discus.

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