CHINA'S SAILPLANES AND MOTORGLIDERS-AN OVERVIEW

Authors

  • Zhang Ruying
  • Ma Lungzhang

Keywords:

Aerodynamics, Design

Abstract

The first glider in China appeared in 1931, and some more appeared later, but they were all experimental or amateur built. Factory-built sailplanes and primary gliders were produced in small batches after 1939 by two airplane manufacturers and one airplane overhauling plant. The earliest glider factories, three manufacturing and one overhauling, were established in the Sichuan Province, during the anti-aggression  period, 1941-1944, and they, and the airplane factories, produced a total of about 170 of which, about 110 were primary gliders (mostly imitating British Dickson, including six Zhongda XG-1, designed by Aero­nautical Department, Central University), 31 were secondary gliders (imitating German Hutter H-17), and 30 sailplanes (imi­tating German Rhonsperber, which is called in China after the Dagung Press).


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Vol. 15 No. 2 (1991)

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