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What (who) is SAILPLANE - definition
CLASS OF GLIDERS
Microlift; Ultralight sailplane
sailplane
¦ noun a glider designed for sustained flight.
Glider (aircraft)
![Aerobatic glider with tip smoke, pictured on July 2, 2005, in [[Lappeenranta]], Finland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Habicht (468040905).jpg?width=200 "Aerobatic glider with tip smoke, pictured on July 2, 2005, in [[Lappeenranta]], Finland")
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BROAD TYPE OF HEAVIER-THAN-AIR AIRCRAFT DESIGNED FOR OPERATION WITHOUT AN ENGINE
Vintage glider; Glider-borne; Vintage gliders; Glider plane; Glider aircraft; Playing with gliders; Biplane glider
A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine.FAA Glider handbook Most gliders do not have an engine, although motor-gliders have small engines for extending their flight when necessary by sustaining the altitude (normally a sailplane relies on rising air to maintain altitude) with some being powerful enough to take off by self-launch.
Delta Sailplane Nomad
TYPE OF AIRCRAFT
Delta Sailplane Honcho
The Delta Sailplane Honcho and Delta Sailplane Nomad are a family of American ultralight aircraft and motorgliders that were derived from the Volmer VJ-24W SunFun and produced by the Delta Sailplane Corporation. The aircraft were supplied as kits for amateur construction.
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Microlift glider
A microlift glider is a recreational glider that is able to exploit microlift, which is lift weaker than a conventional glider would require to stay airborne.
Examples of use of SAILPLANE
1. Engen, director of the Smithsonian‘s National Air and Space Museum, died along with the former president of a gliding organization after their sailplane broke apart and fell 4,000 feet.