- or hills. In
still air,
sailplanes can
glide long
distances at high
speed with a
minimum loss of
height in between.
Sailplanes have
rigid wings and either...
-
Jonker Sailplanes is a
glider manufacturer based in Potchefstroom,
South Africa. Uys
Jonker and his brother,
Attie Jonker founded Jonker Sailplanes in 2004...
- This is a list of gliders/
sailplanes of the world, (this
reference lists all
gliders with references,
where available) Note: Any
aircraft can
glide for...
- Abbott-Baynes
Sailplanes Ltd. was a 1930s
glider manufacturing company based at Wrecclesham, near Farnham, Surrey. It was
founded as a
subsidiary of E...
-
Schweizer brothers of Elmira, New York,
manufactured sport sailplanes to meet the new demand.
Sailplanes continued to
evolve in the 1930s, and
sport gliding...
- The
Delta Sailplane Honcho and
Delta Sailplane Nomad are a
family of
American ultralight aircraft and
motorgliders that were
derived from the
Volmer VJ-24W...
-
balloon and
received a
logbook endor****t. For
gliders (
sailplanes), the
licence is
known as a
Sailplane Pilot Licence (SPL), and has
lower requirements than...
- self-sustaining gliders".
Retrieved 4
September 2006. "Guide to Self-launching
Sailplane Operation".
Archived from the
original on 12
March 2008.
Retrieved 4 September...
-
manufacture of
sailplanes in the form of ready-to-fly type
certified aircraft, as well as some
experimental types.
George Applebay's
first sailplane design constructed...
- air
sport in
which pilots fly
unpowered aircraft known as
gliders or
sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of
rising air in the
atmosphere to...
