A Seagull Ten Meter. (A half-hearted nod towards American metrication?)

Note the pre-curved leading edges and keel tube. The former were braced by a triplet of deflexor cables and posts sticking up, down, and out from the crosstube / leading edge junctions. Gliders with straight tubes also suffered from this draggy complexity.

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