4-seater

"Bert Willing" wrote in
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Urban legend ?

Apparently not. I found a picture of it on the net at :
http://users.skynet.be/nestofdragons/weird_09.htm On the same page you will
see several twins of similar concept, including a twin Ercoupe that looks
like the result of a nasty mid-air.

Vaughn

I was referring to the German Blanik.

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U¿ytkownik "Bert Willing"
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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.

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cernauta wrote in message . ..
(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

A 1/48 scale plastic model kit of this Twin Blanik can occasionally be
found on Ebay. I'd like to know what happened to the real one.
MM

Ok :-)))

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"Bert Willing" wrote in
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Urban legend ?

Apparently not. I found a picture of it on the net at :
http://users.skynet.be/nestofdragons/weird_09.htm On the same page you
will
see several twins of similar concept, including a twin Ercoupe that looks
like the result of a nasty mid-air.

Vaughn

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

Hi,

Apparently not. I found a picture of it on the net at :

Considering the recent discussion on placement of tow hooks. How was
this contraption launched?

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U¿ytkownik "Bert Willing"
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I was referring to the German Blanik.

I know, only the idea of 4 seater connect these two gliders, I just wanted
to continue thread, but didn't follow the story of Blanik reminded by You.

JK

"Vaughn Simon" wrote:


Apparently not. I found a picture of it on the net at :
http://users.skynet.be/nestofdragons/weird_09.htm

Thank you, great page!

Aldo Cernezzi

Not an urban legend at all ,goto the Lak factory site and you will see
pictures of one built to test wing sections mounted between the two
fuselages .
gary
"Bert Willing" wrote in
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Urban legend ?

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"cernauta" a écrit dans le message de
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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

The idea of a joyride machine with multiple places was discussed
at our club a year back and some design ideas tossed around ,
the concensus was something like the DG505 wings attached to a
light tube and fabric fuse with either a triangle seat pattern or a
4 seater star pattern.
This concept was emailed to the owner of DG and the answer came back
that DG had discussed this very idea for a limited production run
but the engineering loads on the fuselage wing junction were very
high and would take a lot of redesigning to get it to work and secondly
the DG505 wingset were simply not strong enough to take those loads.
A Nimbus4D or an ASH25 wingset maybe?
gary
"Bill Daniels" wrote in message
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I recall a recent discussion about the desirability of a 4-place glider for
the ride business. The subject came up after stuffing two not so smallish
people into the back seat of a 2-32 and sending them on a ride over the
Rockies.

The majority view was that the probability of one of the three paying
passengers getting airsick and ruining it for the other two was just too
high. I'm not too sure about that. A 4-place, 25 meter span ride glider
might be a money maker.

Bill Daniels

"Bert Willing" wrote in
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Urban legend ?

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"cernauta" a écrit dans le message de
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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