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Paul K. Guillow, Inc., commonly known as Guillow's, is an American manufacturer of balsa wood model aircraft kits. The company was founded by Paul K. Guillow in 1926 in Wakefield, Massachusetts , and was originally called NuCraft Toys.
A motor glider is an aircraft which sustains flight principally through soaring flight but also has a small engine for takeoff and emergencies. For a list of unpowered gliders see Glider types . For an exhaustive list of all Glider types see List of gliders .
This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available) [1] ...
A subset of the CFS's were Glider Training Schools. Their mission was to train unpowered glider pilots; not powered aircraft pilots. Military Gliders were a new development that began in the 1920s when after the Treaty of Versailles, the German Air Force was disbanded. However, the treaty did not prohibit Germany from having sport gliding clubs ...
Ditched in the Firth of Forth c. 100 metres from shoreline near Granton Harbour. 2 2 24 August 2001 Air Transat Flight 236: Airbus A330-243 Terceira Island, Azores: Fuel exhaustion 120 km (75 mi) from emergency airport as result of fuel leak Emergency landing; aircraft glided for 20 minutes. [13] 0: 306 14 January 2002 Sibir Flight 852 Tupolev ...
This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available) [1] ...
This list includes any types which had 10 or more aircraft built or types which are important to glider development. All the gliders in this list can be found in the J2MCL web site with individual pages for each type. [1] This list does not include Motor glider types. (N.B. Some specifications are quoted with the wrong units!!)
The remaining propulsion capacity after a take-off to 600 m (with a gross weight of 477 kg) will provide a further rate of climb of 2.5 m/s (492 ft/min) to an altitude of 2200 m (7200 ft) and a range of 125 km (77 mi) using a "climb and glide" method. The glider can be flown in the Standard class or in the 18 metre Class.