Engineering:List of Australian gliders

This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available) Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.

Australian miscellaneous constructors

• Andrews 1930 Glider – Kenneth Edwin Andrews
• Armytage 1929 glider – Norman Armytage
• Barbat-Dunn-Rigby GBDR
• Brookes 1919 glider – Wilfred Brookes
• Brown Two Seater – Vincent Brown & STC-GC (Sydney Technical College Gliding Club)
• Buchanan Ricochet – John Buchanan
• Butterworth-Ypinazar Primary
• Clarkson 1930
• Davies-Nicholls Primary
• Degrandi Dresden – DeGrandi, Howard V.
• Degrandi Slope Soarer – DeGrandi, Howard V.
• Dehn Ringwing – Dehn, Karl
• Free Flight Hornet 130s – Free Flight Aviation Pty. Ltd.
• GCSA Lark – Shackleton, William Stancliffe – GCSA (Gliding Club of South Australia) & BRADLEY, Harold
• Halloran-Wedd Mayfly – Halloran, Clyde & Wedd, William G.
• Handcock 1930 glider – Handcock, William Arthur
• Hinkler 1912 glider - John Louis Hinkler (Bert)
• Iggulden Bluebird – Iggulden, William Palmer & Iggulden, Jack
• Iggulden Tandem 1929
• Iggulden Termagent 3
• Joey (glider)
• Zephyrus – Lyon, Douglas – Beaufort Gliding Club (Victoria, Australia)
• Marsch PG-2 – Marsch, J. C.
• Marsch Seaplane – Marsch, J. C.
• Moyes Tempest – Bob Bailey, produced by Moyes Microlights
• Pascoe EP1 Spruce Goose
• Pelican 2
• Pelton Bat – Pelton, Alfred Paul
• Pelton Bronzewing – Pelton, Alfred Paul
• Pelton ground training machine – Pelton, Alfred Paul
• Pelton Hawk – Pelton, Alfred Paul
• Phoenix (glider)
• Pratt 1929 glider – Pratt, Percival Justin
• Pratt Stunter – Pratt, Percival Justin – AMSCO (Aircraft Manufactory and Supply Company)
• Pratt Two Seater – Pratt, Percival Justin – AMSCO (Aircraft Manufactory and Supply Company)
• Pratt Utility – Pratt, Percival Justin – AMSCO (Aircraft Manufactory and Supply Company)
• Richardson Golden Eagle – Geoff Richardson
• Roberts Primary
• Saint Louis XCG-5
• Saint Louis XCG-6
• Schneider ES-60 Boomerang -- Was produced in at least two variants, one with a full-flying stabilator (Boomerang) and one with a horizontal stabilizer/rudder (Super Arrow). Only one of these gliders was imported to the United States, it was a Boomerang with the full-flying stabilator. I owned that ship for several years. Construction was of wood, with plywood sheeted leading edges, covered all over with fabric, wingtips were fiber glass. The cockpit was big, easily accommodating my 6' 5" frame with parachute, after I built a new instrument panel that was about 3 inches less tall than the original. It was sort of like sitting in a barrel with your head up in the canopy. Ailerons were actually flaperons that drooped to increase wing camber when the stick was pulled back. Flying qualities were superb -- fantastic control harmony, stable at low speed, though the flaperons did get a bit mushy just before stall. The terminal-velocity dive brakes were very effective, but when full open bathed the stabilator in turbulent air. Since the stabilator was hinged at a single point, I judged the hinge to be a component I didn't want to stress with overuse of full dive brake, so kept that to a minimum. Half deployment of dive brake was all the pilot needed, if more was needed it was due to a poor approach. Landing gear was a taildragger configuration with a spring steel tail skid. The mechanical drum brake was weak, it seemed like half the braking came from getting the skid on the ground. Flying it in Colorado State, USA, I found that every time I took it out of the trailer I could fly it for a couple of hours and then it would rain -- not good for a wood and fabric glider, so I flew it less and less. I had purchased it from a partnership at AirSailing in Nevada (a good place for a wood ship). When I left Colorado in the economic downturn of 1989-1990, I sold it to a club in Rifle, Colorado, who later sold it to a party that trailered it where water from an adjacent roof poured on it and infiltrated one wing. At the Arvin Remembrance Ceremony in 2000, I met a gentleman who had purchased the "Boomer" and had rebuilt the damaged wing. I hope it is flying often.
• Schneider ES-60B Super Arrow
• SUE-1
• SUT-1 – (Sydney University Trainer 1) – Sydney University Gliding Club
• SUT-2 – (Sydney University Trainer 2) – Sydney University Gliding Club
• Taylor-Moore 1931 – Taylor, Lewis & Moore, Ted
• Thomas Primary 1930 – Thomas, R. R.
• van Dusen amphibious glider
• Warner Brolga – Warner, Martin
• Warner-Campbell Kite 1 – Warner, Martin & Campbell, Allan J.
• Warner Kite 2 – Warner, Martin
• Wikner Golden Sparrow – Wikner, Geoffrey Neville
• Wikner-Lindner Secondary – Wikner, Geoffrey Neville
• Wishart 1930 glider – Wishart, Alfred William