- A
glider or
sailplane is a type of
glider aircraft used in the
leisure activity and
sport of
gliding (also
called soaring). This
unpowered aircraft can...
-
Jonker Sailplanes is a
glider manufacturer based in Potchefstroom,
South Africa. Uys
Jonker and his brother,
Attie Jonker founded Jonker Sailplanes in 2004...
- Abbott-Baynes
Sailplanes Ltd. was a 1930s
glider manufacturing company based at Wrecclesham, near Farnham, Surrey. It was
founded as a
subsidiary of E...
- production. The
rights to the
design were
taken over by a new entity,
Diana Sailplanes,
which developed the
design further into the
Diana 2. The
Diana 2 first...
-
production of the new model. The SGS 2-33,
indicating Schweizer Glider,
Sailplane, 2 Seats,
Model 33, was
designed by
Ernest Schweizer. The
aircraft was...
- 2012. "OSTIV
Sailplane Development Panel of the
Microlift Glider" by
Piero Morelli. Gary Osoba, "Toward a 20 Hour Work-W****"
Sailplane Builder, July...
- 120 ft) and is the
highest peak in the Rhön Mountains.
Great advances in
sailplane development took
place on the
mountain during the
interwar period, driven...
- self-sustaining gliders".
Retrieved 4
September 2006. "Guide to Self-launching
Sailplane Operation".
Archived from the
original on 12
March 2008.
Retrieved 4 September...
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Applebay Sailplanes was an
American aircraft manufacturer,
founded by
George Applebay and
based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
company specialized in...
- air
sport in
which pilots fly
unpowered aircraft known as
gliders or
sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of
rising air in the
atmosphere to...
