The Capstan was Slingsby’s last wood two-place design and reflected the British preference for side-by-side seating. It was planned as a replacement for the earlier T. 21B Two-place side- by-side training glider. One was modified (T. 49C) with a 34 kW/ 45 bhp Nelson engine mounted on a fixed pylon behind the cockpit. ATC
The Cadet was designed in 1929 by Dr. Gross, a former member of the Akaflieg Darmstadt, as an improvement offering some soaring capability over the existing primary gliders. Jack O’Meara, a demonstration pilot for Baker Mcmillen, flew a Cadet off South Mountain at Elmira, NY for 1 hour and 38 minutes in the summer of…
The C100-S made its first flight in 1968. It uses a 3-piece wing with an airfoil 15% thick and no aerodynamic twist. Wood and Styrofoam are used in the construction of the wing ( as well as the tail), but the entire surface and the stress- bearing material is fiberglass. The fuselage is of all-metal…
A development of an earlier Nelson powered motor glider, the Buzzer 2’s propeller is driven through a 2:1 reduction chain, running enclosed in oil, which brings propeller rpm down to 3,000. The ship, which was designed for self launching, features a single centerline fixed wheel and small wing outrigger wheels for taxiing.
The two-place Baby-Albatross was created by adding approximately two feet to the pod of the BA-100 Baby Albatross and providing for a second seat beneath the wing, with porthole windows on each side. The first built had the usual Bowlus control yokes while the second had conventional sticks. Those built up from BT-100 parts were…
The BS-1 was designed and built in 1962 by an Akaflieg Braunschweig student Bjorn Stender to the order of a South African soaring pilot and industrialist. Following the death of Stender in a flight test accident the next year Glasflugel took over the project and manufactured the production version. The BS-1 won the world 300…
The Carbon Dragon first flew in 1988. Altrough meeting the FAI definition of a hang glider, the Carbon Dragon can be launched by foot, aerotow, or bungee. Roll control and approach control are by full span 30 % chord flaperons, and ar least one has been modified by the addition of a pentagonal shaped spoiler…
The Celstar, specifically designed to JAR 22 specifications for competitive aerobatics ( 10 g), first flew in 1989. It has full span mass balanced ailerons. Airbrakes are used for appoach control. The main wheel is retractable.