Study, construction and flight tests of the high performance sailplane CVT-2 ‘Veltro’

Authors

  • Piero Morelli The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Aerodynamics, Structures, Design

Abstract

The CVT-2 "Veltro” has been designed as a competition sailplane.  It had to be capable not only of good performance in distance and speed flights with favourable meteorological conditions, but possess a reasonable chance of exploiting weak and narrow thermals as well.

Author Biography

Piero Morelli, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2017-08-09

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