I had an opportunity to fly the Wills Wing Sport 3 at the Wills
Wing Demo Days at Wallaby Ranch on Thursday. It was late in the afternoon almost
evening and the sky was still covered with thick high clouds that substantially
reduced lift all day. The winds were light out of the northeast.

I pro-towed the glider and there was no bar pressure. The tug pilot later said
that he was flying at 25 mph. Steve Pearson had told me earlier that the bar
pressure was very light. There is no need for a three point tow bridle setup
with this glider.

I could "feel" that I was flying a "bigger" wing than the Wills Wing T2C 144.
That did not appear to affect the handing, which was very light. I would just
give a slight bump to the left or right and the glider would respond right away.
Pulling didn't require much effort.

The VG line was an easy pull. I didn't have a way to see if it changed anything
other than the bar position. Steve said than unlike the Sport 2 you can
comfortably thermal with the VG on say half way or more. I did have a chance to
thermal it in very light lift and it was responsive and easy to fly.

Steve tells me that you can fly it at the top end 7 mph faster than the Sport 2.
I didn't have a chance to pull the bar in all the way. I was mostly floating
around and seeing how it penetrated at mid-range speeds. It seemed to have no
issues with getting back to Wallaby.

I came in for a landing and despite having all my muscle memory tuned for the
T2C it was easy to do the approach. Actually landing it was vastly easier than
the T2C and basically the same as a Falcon. It stopped instantly when I flared
in very light winds.

I think that David Aldrich will have one here at Quest next week as he gets
ready for the 2018 Quest Air Nationals. I'll attempt to give it a longer test
flight and report on that.

Steve Pearson said that there is too little competition in the hang glider
market place. He had wanted to produce the Sport 3 for quite a while now and
only when the Moyes Gecko came along was he motivated enough to go ahead and go
through the pain of development and production.

Paul Voight at the Wills Wing Demo Day at Wallaby Ranch flies the "race" version
of the Sport 3 that I flew.