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This article does a disservice to the Dittmar brothers who designed and built two seat trainers with performance equal to competition gliders of the time. I see several options

Expand the article to properly include the Dittmar Condors
Re-name this article Schleicher Condor IV
re-write this one to reflect the separate status of the Dittmar aircraft and write an article or articles to cover them.

Petebutt (talk) 18:37, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If they are different or sufficiently derivative aircraft then they should have their own articles. We can only work with the refs we have. What refs do you have on the Dittmar versions? - Ahunt (talk) 20:17, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]