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1911 Wright Glider (for a good device)

285 fpspace22  6 months ago
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This is my 1:1 scale 1911 Wright Glider. Mk3 will wings have ribs, spars now!

1911 Wright Glider is a glider Orville Wright used to broke the world soaring duration record. On October 24 1911, Orville soared in the glider above Kill Devil Hill in a 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) wind for 9 minutes 45 seconds, far exceeding the brothers' previous gliding durations. The record stood for ten years until broken in Germany in 1921 by Wolfgang Klemperer.

  • The 1911 Wright Glider specifications, in its final configuration:

  • 32 ft (9.6 m) wingspan

  • 5 ft (2.1 m) chord
  • 1/24 camber
  • 3.6 ft (1.1 m) separation (distance between the lower wing and upper wing)
  • 300 sq ft (27.9 sq m) wing area
  • 28 sq ft (2.6 sq m) rear elevator area
  • 13.5 sq ft (1.3 sq m) rudder area
  • 28.7 ft (8.7 m) length (including sand counterweight)
  • 170 lbs (77.1 kg) weight (including sand counterweight)
    This aircraft is a conventional tailplane rather than canard (front elevator). The pilot is sitting on a seat with hand controls rather than lying prone. This glider has some asymmetry like the front rudder is placed left the center line (i think it's for better pilot visibility)
    This glider made me wonder for 2 years when I wanted to made a free flight model of it.

  • Controls:

  • Almost are gyroscope controlled
  • Pitch, Roll, Yaw : Normal
  • Trim : Normal (If you don't understand, trim down make your plane nose up and otherwise)
  • How to launch:
    Find somewhere that going slow (the best example is Bandit Final Approach)

Spotlights

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Wing Loading 0.4lbs/ft2 (2.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 382.1ft2 (35.5m2)
  • Drag Points 25

Parts

  • Number of Parts 241
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 631