I've owned 3 of your gliders and love them all, 2 HL Chrysalis and 1 Chrysalis 2M. I decided that I really prefer the HL planes, and decided to perhaps get one your composite versions.

I had always wanted a monarch and now that I'm finally done with College and can afford one, I found your site again. I noticed that you no longer offered the Monarch, and I was just wondering what is better about the Spectre HLG compared to the Monarch HLG.

From : Don Stackhouse

Lots of things, but in a nutshell:

Better low speed performance

Better L/D and range

Better penetration

Better launch height

Better handling at all speeds

Better visual feedback of what's going on in the air it's flying through

Better stability

Easier to manufacture, and better manufacturing consistency. The Monarchs were much more labor intensive to manufacture. If we kept on making the Monarch designs in their final forms, we would have to raise their price to something quite a bit higher than what we sell the Spectres for in order to make an honest profit. At that price, no one would buy them. At anything less than that price, we would sooner or later have to go out of business.

With the Spectre series, you get a substantially better airplane, for an excellent price. The Monarch tooling was wearing out, and there wasn't any good reason to invest in the new tooling required to keep the Monarchs in production. We did consider keeping the Monarch name for the new design. However, the Monarch and Wizard series had gone through approx. nine different major revisions, and we decided it was time for a new name.

Don Stackhouse
DJ Aerotech