Although the Standard Cirrus was a follow-on to the original Open Class Cirrus design, it is completely different aircraft, with a 15 m. wing with airbrakes on the top surface only, an all-moving T-tail and a steel tube skeleton in the wing-fuselage center section. A Cirrus won the U.S. Standard Class Nationals in 1969. Despite a claimed L/D ratio of 38,…
The H 201 Standard Class version of the flapped H 301 Libelle first flew in 1967. It originally had a fixed landing gear; but with a change in the Standard Class rules, a retractable gear (H 201B) became standard. The B model features larger uppersurface dive brakes, a larger stabilizer for better low-speed handling, PVC…
A development of the Baby Albatross, the Super Albatross used the BT-100 Baby Albatross pod and tail, with the boom moved down. The wing is the outer section of the BT-100, mounted in a shoulder position. One belongs to the National Soaring museum.
The Super Blanik, which first flew in 1988, is a development of the L 13 Blanik, but without flaps. It has a T-tail, DFS type airbrakes and a swiveling tail wheel. It retains the semi- retractable shock absorbed main wheel of the L 13. The opening part of the cockpit canopy is in two pieces,…
The all-fiberglass two-place self-launching HOAC ( formerly Hoffmann) Dimona features a folding wing design which allows two people to fold both wings in several minutes and reduce the aircraft hanger space requirement to no more than that of a sailplane trailer. The Limbach engine drives a Hoffmann 2 blade, 3 position propeller. The Hk 36…
An ultalight sailplane, the Super Floater is designed to accommodate a ballistic recovery emergency parachute and comply with U.S. FAA part 103 rules. It has full span ailerons which, as an option, can be configured as flaperons.
Aeronaves e Motores (Aeromot) acquired the production right to the Aerostructures (Fournier) RF 10 side-by-side two-place self- launching sailplane and built a slightly modified version under the name AMT 100 Ximango with a 80 BHP / 60 kW Limbach L 2000 E01 engine driving a Hoffmann 2 blade 3 position propellor with electric starter. The…
The Swallow is a small single-seater which first flew in 1957 designed as a follow on single- place sailplane after the student had completed basic two-place instrucion. It has a fixed wheel and a nose skid, and the leading edge of the wing is covered with thick low-density plywood to maintain a smooth contour. It…
The first Mucha was designed in 1948 under the auspices of the Polish Gliding Institute, formed in 1946 at Bielsko-Biala. The –22C Mucha Standard, which first flew in 1958, was developed for the 1958 World Championships held at Leszno, Poland where it took first place in the Standard Class. It has Frise ailerons which are…
The original Foka first flew in 1960 and gained third place in the Standard Class at the World Championships at Koln-Butzwerhof, Germany, in that year. The first major production variant, the SZD 24C Foka 4 appeared the following year. A Foka 4, flown by Jan Wroblewski, won the Open Class at the 1965 World Championships…