With this supplementary certification in place nothing stands in the way of World Dominance for the Summit XC3. It is generally acknowledged to be the fastest EN B wing on the market, and has but one contender for being the highest performing one as well. As our tests have shown, it has no qualms gliding with extremely popular traditional EN D wings from a well-known competitor, and that is all in a wing that is truly EN B, and can be flown by talented EN B pilots with good glider handling skills! That is pretty exceptional, and we're proud of it!

Speaking of EN B wings being EN B by nature as well as by certification, Cross Country Magazine borrowed a Summit XC3 for their "How hot is "Hot"?" article in issue 158. They basically took two high-performance EN B wings to Monaco and took them through the EN certification maneouvres, and came away impressed: "The UP Summit XC3 was a surprise: Because of its higher aspect ratio, I expected it to be more aggressive, but it wasn't. The dive (after asymmetrical collapses, red.) was slower (than the other wing in the test, red.) and the recovery was [happening at a] more sedate pace."

It all serves to show that when our Franta Pavlousek decides to build the highest-performing EN B wing on the market then he does just that - he doesn't make an EN C wing that'll just make it into the EN B class... Click here to go straight to the Summit XC3 pages on the UP website.