4-seater

A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?

The glider you ask about may well have been the Gross 4 .The Purdue University
glider club owned one way back when.

ZASoars wrote:
The glider you ask about may well have been the Gross 4 .The Purdue University
glider club owned one way back when.

http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/dg-3000.html
Maybe you can fit two people in the middle seat.
;-)

Shawn

Nyal Williams wrote:

A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?

Not sure about a 4 seater, but how about a 130 seater?
http://www.waffenhq.com/flugzeuge/me321.html

Stefan

Yes, and there was a multitude of smaller 8 to 12 placers used in Crete,
Malta and Normandy, eh?

A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?


Not sure about a 4 seater, but how about a 130 seater?
http://www.waffenhq.com/flugzeuge/me321.html

Stefan

In 1943, the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri was among 10 people who died
in a glider crash at Lambert Field.
(see http://www.modelaircraft.org/mag/2002/1202/docmath.htm)


Nyal Williams wrote:
A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?

I remember the incident well, I was 12 years old at
the time. It showed up in Life magazine, as I recall.

To belabor the point a bit, I remember seeing a flight
of 75 of these CG-4s towed by C-47s across my village
in North Carolina during the Big One.



At 03:00 24 November 2004, wrote:
In 1943, the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri was among
10 people who died
in a glider crash at Lambert Field.
(see http://www.modelaircraft.org/mag/2002/1202/docmath.htm)


Nyal Williams wrote:
A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was
built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?

(Nyal Williams) wrote:

A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?

Somebody built a 4 place glider with twin fuselages. It was based on
Blanik parts. A center section, two outside wings, two fuselages and
tails.
I believe it was built by a German Blanik repair station.

Aldo Cernezzi

Urban legend ?

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


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(Nyal Williams) wrote:

A friend keeps insisting that a 4-place glider was built at one time.
Can anyone verify, identify, or point to a picture?

Somebody built a 4 place glider with twin fuselages. It was based on
Blanik parts. A center section, two outside wings, two fuselages and
tails.
I believe it was built by a German Blanik repair station.

Aldo Cernezzi

U¿ytkownik "Bert Willing"
napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci ...
Urban legend ?

Not at all. There was an SZD design which consisted of two SZD-9 Bocian
fuselages, each with left or right wing appropriatly, and the 'mid-section'
between the fuselages where the tested airfoils were used. The design was a
flying laboratory for testing of new airfoils characteristics. I believe
that only one or two places were occupied in flight, the rest was used by
the in-flight testing equipment.

Regards,


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