I KNEW the 2-22 and 2-33 were good sailplanes.
I just didn't know they were THAT good...:P

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Peter Harding wrote:
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Does anybody know the origins/history of the term "sailplane"?
Thanks,

The Oxford English Dictionary has a quote using the term from 1922:

1922 Flight XIV. 545/2 The gliding angle of a good ‘sail-plane’ might be
in the neighbourhood of 1 in 16 or 1 in 18.


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