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List Of Canadian Gliders
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 a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer. Canadian miscellaneous constructors * Birdman Project 102 Windsoar – Birdman Enterprises * Brochocki BKB-1 * Czerwiński Sparrow – close copy of the W.W.S.1 Salamandra – de Havilland Aircraft Canada * Czerwiński Robin – modified Sparrow – de Havilland Aircraft Canada * Czerwinski-Shenstone UTG-1 Loudon – ''Étudiants de L'Université de Toronto'' * Marsden Gemini – Marsden, David * NRC tailless glider – National Research Council / Geoffrey Hill * Czerwiński-Shenstone Harbinger – Shenstone, Beverley S. & Czerwinski, Waclaw * Viking 104 Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glider Aircraft
A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. Most gliders do not have an engine, although motor-gliders have small engines for extending their flight when necessary by sustaining the altitude (normally a sailplane relies on rising air to maintain altitude) with some being powerful enough to take off by self-launch. There are a wide variety of types differing in the construction of their wings, aerodynamic efficiency, location of the pilot, controls and intended purpose. Most exploit meteorological phenomena to maintain or gain height. Gliders are principally used for the air sports of gliding, hang gliding and paragliding. However some spacecraft have been designed to descend as gliders and in the past military gliders have been used in warfare. Some simple and familiar types of glider are toys such as paper planes and balsa wood gliders. Etym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailplane
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 use naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to gain altitude. Sailplanes are aerodynamically streamlined and so can fly a significant distance forward for a small decrease in altitude. In North America the term 'sailplane' is also used to describe this type of aircraft. In other parts of the English-speaking world, the word 'glider' is more common. Types Gliders benefit from producing the least drag for any given amount of lift, and this is best achieved with long, thin wings, a slender fuselage and smooth surfaces with an absence of protuberances. Aircraft with these features are able to soar – climb efficiently in rising air produced by thermals 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdman Project 102 Windsoar
The Birdman Project 102, also known as Windsoar, was an experimental high wing, single engine, pod-and-boom, conventional landing gear-equipped, ultralight motor glider originally intended for production by Birdman Enterprises.Taylor, John WR: ''Janes All the Worlds Aircraft 1982-83'' page 626, Janes Publishing Company, 1982. Development Project 102 was intended to result in a production lightweight motor glider and was designed in 1981 by David Marsden from the University of Alberta with assistance from Birdman Enterprises' designer Vladimir Talanczuk. The production aircraft was tentatively named the ''Birdman Windsoar''. The Project 102 aircraft was built from aluminum and foam. The all-metal wing was cantilever, stressed to +6/-6 g and featured full-span reflexing ailerons that could be raised to increase cruise performance, as well as winglets. The wing centre was covered with aircraft fabric Aircraft fabric covering is a term used for both the material used and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdman Enterprises
Birdman Enterprises Limited was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer that commenced business in 1973 and became well known for its line of hang gliders and later its ultralight aircraft until its demise in late 1987.Jones, Terry: ''Birdman WT-11 Chinook – A Cabin-Class "Ultra" Lightplane''. Birdman Enterprises, 1984.Jones, Terry: ''Birdman WT-11 Chinook – It's A Perfect Aviation Package''. Birdman Enterprises, 1984.Hunt, Adam: ''Pilot Report: Chinook 2S''. Canadian Owners and Pilots Association ''COPA Flight'', October 1999. A redesigned version of the company's Chinook ultralight design was later placed back in production by Aircraft Sales and Parts of Vernon, British Columbia in 1989 as a kit aircraft.Downey, Julia: ''2008 Kit Aircraft Directory'', Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 37. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, pages B-72 & E-9. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. Purdy, Don: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brochocki BKB-1
The Brochocki BKB-1 was a Canadian mid-wing, single-seat, experimental tailless glider that was designed and constructed by Stefan Brochocki with assistance from Witold Kasper and A. Bodek. The designation indicated the contributions of all three men. The aircraft was intended to study flight above the stall angle.Rogers, Bennett: ''1974 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine'', page 94. Soaring Society of America, August 1974. USPS 499-920 Design and development The BKB-1 was constructed in 1959 and built entirely from wood. The wing was swept, had a 9.5:1 aspect ratio and employed a NACA 8-H-12 airfoil. The aircraft had a very high wing area of which resulted in a light wing loading of just 3.81 lb/sq ft (18.6 kg/m2). The prototype BKB-1 was originally registered in Canada as CF-ZDK-X. Later it was moved to the United States, owned by Kasper and registered as N2991G. As a testbed the aircraft went through several modification states. The modifications includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czerwiński Sparrow
The Czerwiński Sparrow, sometimes known as the de Havilland Canada glider, was a single seat glider, designed and built by a group of de Haviiland engineers in Canada in 1942. It was intended to popularise gliding and be suitable for both basic training and thermal soaring. Design and development In the early years of World War II there was little gliding activity in Canada. Feeling that a Gliding Club would be well received by the military, and with the approval of their employers, some staff at the de Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada decided to form their own. The initiative was taken by W. Czerwinski who went on to lead the design of the group's own glider, a very close copy of the W.W.S.1 Salamandra which Czerwiński had designed before the war in Poland. Members of the drawing office worked in their own time to produce the engineering blueprints, de Havilland and other companies took an interest, assisting the project with donations of instruments and a landing whee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czerwiński Robin
Czerwiński (feminine Czerwińska) is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Czerwiński (born 1993), Polish footballer * Andrzej Czerwiński (born 1954) is a Polish politician * Anna Czerwińska (1949–2023), Polish mountaineer * Eugeniusz Czerwiński (1887–1930), Polish architect * George Czerwinski, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate *Jakub Czerwiński, Polish footballer * Joseph Czerwinski (1944–1998), American legislator * Krzysztof Czerwiński (born 1980), Polish conductor, organist and voice teacher * Mary Czerwinski, American cognitive scientist and computer-human interaction *Paweł Czerwiński (born 1965), Polish diplomat * Pete Czerwinski (born Piotr Czerwinski; 1985), Canadian competitive eater and YouTube personality * Przemysław Czerwiński (born 1983), Polish pole vaulter * Ryszard Czerwiński (born 1954), Polish boxer * Tadeusz Czerwiński (born 1964), Polish sports shooter *Zbigniew Czerwiński (spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czerwinski-Shenstone UTG-1 Loudon
The UTG-1 Loudon was an intermediate glider designed and built at the University of Toronto in Canada during the late 1940s. Design and development By 1947 Canadian glider pilots urgently needed a new intermediate performance glider for club use and cross-country flying. Concurrently the Loudon Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto proposed that his 4th year students gain experience by building a glider. Waclaw Czerwinski and Beverley S. Shenstone designed a small glider for the students to build, which was completed within two years and flown for the first time on 5 November 1949. Construction of the Loudon was primarily of wood with fabric and plywood skinning, following contemporary standard practice of a shoulder set two piece wing immediately aft of the enclosed cockpit. The fuselage was built up from spruce frames and stringers with plywood covering incorporating the integral fin. The wing consisted of a single cantilever spar with a ply sandwich lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsden Gemini
The Marsden Gemini is a Canadian mid-wing, T-tailed, two-seats in side-by-side configuration, experimental research glider that was designed and constructed by David Marsden at the University of Alberta, first flying in 1973. Design and development The Gemini was designed to explore the use of flaps to create a variable geometry sailplane that would be optimized for both low speed thermalling flight and also high speed gliding between thermals. The aircraft was predominantly made from aluminium, with some stainless steel used for the wing ribs, controls and fittings. The two-place side-by-side cockpit was made from fibreglass. Its four-piece span high aspect ratio wing employed a modified Wortmann FX-61-163/35SF airfoil. The Fowler flaps occupied the entire trailing edge of the wing and accounted for 35% of the wing chord. In cruise the flaps were retracted, reducing the wing area. While climbing, the flaps were extended, producing a high lift coefficient of 2.2. For glide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRC Tailless Glider
The NRC tailless glider, also called the NRL tailless glider, was a two-seat tailless research glider designed by the National Research Council of Canada and built by the National Research Laboratories, at the instigation of G.T.R. Hill who had previously designed the British Westland-Hill Pterodactyl series of tailless aircraft. Development To research the control and stability of tailless aircraft. The National Research Council of Canada initiated a research programme using a specially designed glider, the NRC tailless glider. During the inter-war years Geoffrey T. R. Hill had designed and Westland Aircraft Limited had built a series of tailless aircraft with support from the Royal Aircraft Establishment. During World War II Geoffrey Hill served as the British Scientific Liaison Officer at the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada, where he proposed the development of a tailless research glider similar to his Pterodactyl designs. Design The glider was constructed predom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czerwiński-Shenstone Harbinger
The Czerwiński-Shenstone Harbinger, aka the Shenstone-Czerwiński Harbinger or the Shenstone Harbinger was a Canadian high performance tandem seat sailplane designed in Canada. Only two were built, one in the UK and one in Canada. The latter did not fly until 1975, being under construction for 26 years; the former remained active until at least 1994. Design and development In 1947 the British Gliding Association held a competition for a two-seat glider design. The tandem seat Harbinger was designed jointly by Waclaw Czerwiński, who had already developed several gliders in Poland before World War II, and Canadian Beverley Shenstone, who had worked in Germany on the Junkers Ju 52 then later, in the UK, on the Spitfire. The Harbinger came fifth in the competition, which the Kendall Crabpot won. The Harbinger was, apart from its wing mountings, an all wood aircraft. It had braced, high-set demountable wings each built around a single main spar. These were plywood cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking 104
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9–22. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and North America. In some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a collective whole. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Estonia, and Kievan Rus'. Expert sailors and navigators aboard their characteristic longships, Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast, as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
