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.

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

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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"
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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.

Regards,


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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

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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