POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF GLIDING WORLDWIDE

Authors

  • Piero Morelli

Keywords:

Aerodynamics, Structures, Design

Abstract

In the history of technological development some inventions, such as the glider, appear only after a long delay with respect to their technical feasibility. The modern high performance sailplane incorporates construction methods and materials available only in recent times: synthetic resins (epoxy, acrylic) and fibers (glass, graphite, aromatic polyamides), metal alloys, elastomers, etc. It requires a rather sophisticated technology. An expansion of gliding world-wide, beyond the actual modest limits of 120,000 pilots and 24,000 gliders in about 50 of the 174 world countries, is also a worthy objective for securing the vital air space to our sport and to allow gliding a creditable self-rule.

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (1991)

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