- 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...
- self-sustaining gliders".
Retrieved 4
September 2006. "Guide to Self-launching
Sailplane Operation".
Archived from the
original on 12
March 2008.
Retrieved 4 September...
- air
sport in
which pilots fly
unpowered aircraft known as
gliders or
sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of
rising air in the
atmosphere to...
- The
Dunstable Sailplane Company was
established in 1934 by W.L.
Manuel and C.H. Latimer-Needham to design,
manufacture and
repair gliders from its workshop...
-
Forschungsanstalt für
Segelflug (German for 'German
Research Institute for
Sailplane Flight' / 'German
Institute for
Glider Research'), or DFS , was formed...
- Yorkshire, England. The
company was
founded to
design and
build gliders and
sailplanes. From the
early 1930s to
around 1970 it
built over 50% of all British...
-
Frigate sailplane and the
motorized X-26B
Quiet Thruster versions: QT-2, QT-2PC, and QT-2PCII. All were
based on the
Schweizer SGS 2-32
sailplane. The X-26A...
-
Applebay Sailplanes was an
American aircraft manufacturer,
founded by
George Applebay and
based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
company specialized in...
- 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...
