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Designs from these books were later sold as the 'White Wings' Series of paper glider packs from the 1970s to the present day. [5] White Wings are a stark departure from conventional paper aircraft, in that their fuselages and wings are paper templates cut and glued together. They were designed with the aid of low-speed aerodynamic engineering ...
Yasuaki Ninomiya is a Japanese aircraft designer. He is the creator of the "WhiteWings" line of paperboard aircraft, [1] described as "the Ferraris of paper airplanes" by a curator of the National Air and Space Museum. [2]
The U2 was conceived as a recreational intermediate glider with performance nearing that of competition gliders, like the Wills Wing T2. The U2 is made from 7075 aluminium alloy tubing, with the 84% double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The U2 includes a variable geometry (VG) system that tensions the sail for higher glide performance.
AEA Glider (1907), biplane hang glider based on the designs and data shared by Octave Chanute [21] Aerodrome No. 1 Red Wing (1908), Selfridge design, single-seat powered biplane [10] Aerodrome No. 2 White Wing (1908), Baldwin design, single-seat powered biplane [12] Aerodrome No. 3 June Bug (1908), Curtiss design, single-seat powered biplane [13]
Wills Wing, Inc. (legally Sport Kites, Inc) is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Orange, California and previously located in Santa Ana, California.The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, plus hang glider harnesses and accessories.
The glider model is DHV 1 certified. [1] [3] Falcon 170 Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots, introduced in 1995. Its wing has a span of 30.5 ft (9.3 m), the nose angle is 118°, wing area is 170 sq ft (16 m 2) and the aspect ratio is 5.5:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is 140 to 230 lb (64 to 104 kg). The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Island hopping. In the summer of 2022, REGENT tested a quarter-scale prototype of its seaglider — a remotely operated version weighing 400 pounds, with a wingspan of 18 feet. The full-scale ...
This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available) [1] ...