Wood glider plans?

[Scott]

Any plans available for building a wood and fabric glider these days?


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Scott
Gotta Fly or Gonna Die
http://corbenflyer.tripod.com
Building RV-4

[Bob Kuykendall]

At 04:00 18 January 2004, Scott wrote:

> Any plans available for building a wood and
> fabric glider these days?

You can often find used plans sets for Dusters, Woodstocks,
and etc in the Sailplane Homebuilders Association newsletter.
A good place to start is:

http://www.sailplanehomebuilders.com

There's also a homebuilt sailplane forum on YahooGroups
called HomeSail.

I offer plans for the old Schreder HPs, and I'm developing
a new kit sport/racing ship. But nothing with much
wood to it.

Thanks, and best regards to all

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com

[Wood Hawk]

> Any plans available for building a wood and fabric glider these days?

Indirectly, yes.
When you buy any one of a number of kit projects currently for sale,
you also get the plans. Happens to be a cost-effective way of getting
the peripheral stuff as well. Wood cost more than it did when gliders
were being designed for wood construction.

For example:
BJ-1b Duster Project
Kit is plan number is 371. Construction is well along.
Needs to have one aileron finished, Needs a canopy, sanding of the
wing LE.
It is bare wood, will still need some kind of finish.

Builder: Craig Aho
Mountlake Terrace, WA
425-778-7650

[Steve]

"Scott" > wrote
> Any plans available for building a wood and fabric glider these days?

Careful, Scott. Glider or Sailplane? My personal distinction being
somewhere in the 25:1 glide ratio range. The Vintage Sailplane
Association has plans available for a number of "gliders" and even a
couple of "sailplanes". But if you are wanting newer designs (without
struts), you will have to search the other places for used sets. Just
keep in mind that, just like that RV-4 you are working on, building an
sailplane is a BIG project.

Steve Leonard

[Janusz Kesik]

Ask at the SZD Jezow - www.szdjezow.com.pl

They own all the blueprints and technical documentation of the older =
(including almost all wooden) designs of SZD.
Lots of them very capable, just like the Foka or the Cobra (L/D 38:1 @ =
97kph)

Regards,


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Janusz Kesik

visit www.leszno.pl - home of the www.css-leszno.it.pl