The Phoebus was derived from the Phonix, which first flew in 1957, the world’s first successful fiberglass sailplane. The Phoebus came from the same team of designers and used the same fiberglass and balsa wood sandwich technique. The A model (shown), a Standard Class design with fixed gear, first flew in 1964. The B model,…
The biplane open cockpit Glider first flew in 1959. It has an all-moving tail with trim, and a fixed gear (water skis). Plans were sold for homebuilt construction, One belongs to the EAA Aviation Foundation, Oskosh, WI.
The Penetrator first flew in 1953. It has an all- moving tail, styrofoam-filled wing leading edges, and airbrakes. It originally had a skid with jettisonable take-off dolly, but was subsequently fitted with a fixed wheel. The sole example now belongs to the National Soaring Museum.
Centrair developed the standard class Pegase after manufacturing the 15 m. racing class Schleicher AS-W 20 under license, and the fuselage is similar. The wing is all new, with a profile developed by French airfoil experts. The Pegase has a larger diameter tail boom to resist breakage in groundloops, and considerable modification in the wing-to-fuselage…
The side-by-side two-place launching IS-28M2 (now redesignated IAR-34), which first flew in 1976, was developed from the tandem two-place IS- 28 M1. The rear fuselage, tailplane and wings are similar to the IS-28B2 glider. Approach control is by upper and lower surface Hutter type airbrakes. The Limbach engine drives an adjustable pitch Hoffmann fully featering…
Designed for the 15 m. racing class, the Mosquito first flew in 1976 as a flapped refinement of the Standard Class 206 Hornet. It features trailing edge dive brakes and interconnected variable camber trailing edge flaps, and has automatic connection on ailerons, elevater, air brakes and water ballast plumbing. ATC
The Monerai was designed as a pure sailplane or with either of two power pods for self-launching capabillity, the Zenoah and the KFM 107. In addition, the Monerai Max wingtip extension kit was conceived to add more than three feet to the span, bringing it to 12 meters, and raising the L/D to more than…
When the Monarch made its first flight in 1974, the hang glider and ultalight booms were in full swing, and it was designed both as an unpowered and a self-launching sailplane to take advantage of both markets. The Monarch has been flown as a pure sailplane for winch and auto-tow launch and as a self-launching…