Mystery of crashed glider in Arizona

On Dec 8, 8:52*pm, tstock wrote:
Well, someone knows the story, because it was stripped clean after it
was totaled.

It does like HP'ish to me so my guess is an early HP?

I do not think it is an early HP. The fuse is very low profile for a
60's HP. The v-tails also seem too high aspect ratio.

I did have a tape measure with me as my son and I were out measuring
desert strips at the time. The span is 15m. The wing skin is
fiberglass. It had solid foam in the forward D tube and the spar was
riveted aluminum. HP gliders and Irv Prue gliders were metal, metal
and metal. At this point, I am pretty confident that Wayne Paul and
Bob Kuykendall are the guys that are on the right track here. I think
the tail cone and tail feathers are borrowed from an HP and it is a
one of glider.

Bob knew the internal construction without seeing it. Is Bob the
builder of this glider? If so, he is likely feeling sad to see her
now in such a state.

"Steve Koerner" wrote in message ...

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Bob knew the internal construction without seeing it. Is Bob the
builder of this glider? If so, he is likely feeling sad to see her
now in such a state.

Bob purchased all the items in Dick Schreder's warehouse several years ago. He has the wrights to the HP brand. He also has the records of all the HP/RS kits ever sold. His company is HP Aircraft, LLC (http://www.hpaircraft.com) and he is in the process of producing a composite kit which is being called the HP-24.

Bob has owned a HP-11 and built a HP-18. I believe his knowledge of the wreckage is derived from Dick Schreder's kit sales records.

Wayne
http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F

On Dec 8, 8:58*pm, "Wayne Paul" wrote:
I believe his knowledge of the wreckage is derived from Dick
Schreder's kit sales records.

Unfortunately, that's not the case. But if I had a name, I could
probably find it if it's in the files. The tailboom looks too slender
to be any HP except the HP-18; if it is so it would date the mystery
ship to no earlier than about 1974. The V-tail surfaces look taller
than standard HP stuff, but that might just be an artifact of the
camera angles.

Thanks, Bob K.