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US 3,945,147 AGranted
Hand launch glider
OwnerThomas T. Crowderinventor
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Abstract
A hand launch glider which includes the use of a fuselage and a wing and an empennage, the fuselage constructed of laminated polystyrene plastic layers bonded on each side of a thin balsa wood core, both the wing and the empennage including connecting means to readily fix the position of each with respect to said fuselage so that the operator will readily know when either the wing or the empennage is misaligned with respect to the fuselage.
Claims10
A hand launch glider comprising:
- a fuselage having a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction of flight;
- a wing connected by first connecting means to said fuselage;
- an empennage connected by second connecting means to said fuselage;
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- said fuselage being constructed of thin, rigid self-supporting layers of plastic and a thin wood panel with the plastic bonded on opposite sides of the thin wood panel, the grain of said thin wood panel running parallel to said longitudinal axis of the fuselage, said plastic layers being substantially identical in thickness.
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