The H 17 was designed by the Hutter brothers in Salzburg, Austria. The ‘17’ indicated the glide ratio. They sold plan sets until they joined Schempp-Hirth, which then built about five as the Goppingen 5 with the addition of a windshield and main wheel. Many were built from plans worldwide and several are still flying.…
Designed in Hungary in 1967, the R-26S entered series production as a training aircraft. Seating two in tandam, it features an aluminum monocoque fuselage and a metal wing structure with fabric cover, and a fixed sprung landingwheel and tail skid.
The Peel Glider Boat Company of Flushing Bay, NY was in business around 1930, designing and building the Glider Boat, a biplane glider with stepped flying boat hull and wingtip floats. A number of examples were sold. The two occupants sat in tandem in an open cockpit with conventional controls, but without instruments. Normal method…
The Grunau Baby is the most widely produced sailplane design with more than 6,000 having been built in Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Romania, South Africa, Australia, China, Canada, Argentina, the U.S. and other countries. The design first flew in 1931 and wet through several developments before the most popular configuration, the…