Engineering:List of gliders (B)
This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available)[1] Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.
B
Babiński
(Zbigniew Babiński)
BAC
(British Aircraft Company)
- B.A.C. I
- B.A.C. II
- B.A.C. III
- B.A.C. IV
- B.A.C. V
- B.A.C. VI
- B.A.C. VII
- B.A.C. VII Planette
- B.A.C. VIII Bat-Boat
- B.A.C. IX
- B.A.C. Drone
Bacerka
- Bacerka (glider)
Bachem
(Eric Bachem / Bachem-Werke)
- Bachem Leichtwindensegler
- Bachem Lerche[3]
- Bachem Thermikus
Backstrom
(Al Backstrom)
- Backstrom EPB-1 Flying Plank
- Backstrom WPB-1 Powered Plank
- Backstrom Flying Plank II
Baden-Baden
(Segelflugzeugwerke Baden-Baden)
- Baden-Baden glider
Bagalini
(BAGALINI, Marino)
Bailey-Moyes
(Bob Bailey / Moyes Microlights Pty Ltd)
Baitler
(Miroslav Baitler / I. skupina konstruktérů Aero, Praha (Prague))
- Můra 1922
Baker McMillen
(Frank Gröss / Baker McMillen)
- Baker McMillen Cadet
Ball
(James Noel Ball)
- Ball 1929 glider
- Ball 1930 glider
Bange
(John J. Bange)
- Bange 1936 glider
- Bange Azure Star
Bange
(John J. Bange - Clifton, Queensland, Australia)
- Bange Azure Star (Bange Z-B-I)
- Bange Azure Star II (Bange Z-B-II)
Bango-Schmid
(Bango & Schmid)
- Bango-Schmid 1930 glider
Barbat-Dunn-Rigby
(BARBAT, Edward & DUNN, Colin & RIGBY, Colin)
- Barbat-Dunn-Rigby GBDR
Bǎrboi
(Ion Bǎrboi)
Bardin
(René Bardin)
- Bardin Alérion
- Bardin Alérion Biplace
- Bardin B-1 Vauville
Barel
(Graal Aéro / Max Barel)
Barnaby
(Ralph Barnaby)
- Ralph Barnaby 1909 glider
Baron
(A. Baron)
- Baron Aéro Ramo-Planeur[5]
Barratt-Bradley
(Jock Barratt & Harold Bradley / Waikerie Gliding Club)
- Barratt-Bradley Pelican 2
Barros
(Cláudio Pinto de Barros / Centro de Estudos Aeronáuticos (CEA) / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil)
- Barros CB-1 Gaivota
Barszczowski
(Walenty Barszczowski)
- Barszczowski 1913 Glider
Barta
(Karl Barta)
- Barta Dactylus 2
- Barta Dactylus 3
Bartel
(Ryszard Bartel)
- Bartel 1 Glider
- Bartel 2 Glider
Bartos/Nobel
- Bartos/Nobel BN-1 Phantom
Bates
(Carl Stephen BATES, Clear Lake, Iowa (USA) / Popular Mechanics)
- Popular Mechanics Glider
Baudoux-Orta
(Pierre Baudoux & José Orta / Ateliers Orta, Saint-Hubert, Belgium)
- Baudoux-Orta SBO
Bauer
(Ted Bauer / San Gabriel Academy students, Californie, USA)
- Bauer Bird
Bäumer
(Bäumer Aero GmbH, Hamburg / Paul Bäumer)
- Bäumer B-1 Roter Vogel
Bazin
(Albert Bazin)
- Bazin 1904
- Bazin 1905
- Bazin 1909
Bazzocchi
(Ermanno Bazzocchi)
Bauer
- Bauer Bz.II
Beatty-Johl
- Beatty-Johl BJ-2 Assegai
- Beatty-Johl BJ-3
- Beatty-Johl BJ-4
Beaufort Gliding Club
(Lyon, Douglas – Beaufort Gliding Club, Victoria, Australia)
- Beaufort Gliding Club Zephyrus
- Beaufort Gliding Club Phoenix
Bede
(Jim Bede)
- Bede BD-2
- Bede BD-5S
Bekmanis
(Edvins Bekmanis)
- Bekmanis Gaigalina
- Bekmanis Spriditis
Bėkšta
(Romualdas Bėkšta)
- Bėkšta RB-11
Belin brothers.
- Belin bros. 1908 glider
Bellanger-Denhaut
(DENHAUT, François - BELLANGER Frères)
Belyayev
(Viktor Nikolayevich Belyayev)
- Belyayev BP-3
Benes
(Pavel Beneš)
- Benes LD 605 Haban - post-war military assault glider under construction, but cancelled 1951[8]
Bennett-Carter
(George Bennett & Richard Carter)
- Bennett-Carter Dottie S
Benz
(Ing. Hans Benz, Mönchen-Gladbach.)
- Benz Be-2
Berca
(Jorge Berca)
- Berca JB-1
- Berca JB-2
- Berca JB-3
- Berca JB-4
Berger
(M. Berger in Lyon and flown by Gardey)
- Berger 1905 glider[5]
Berkshire
(Berkshire Manufacturing Corporation)
Berkout
- Berkout (glider)
Berliaux-Salètes
Berliner Segelflugvereins
- Berliner Segelflugvereins 1923 primary
Bertelli
- Bertelli Aerostave
Bertin
(Bertin (glider constructor))
- Bertin Compact
- Bertin B-12
Besneux
(Alain Besneux)
- Besneux P.70
Bielany School
- Bielany School Glider
Bikle
(Paul Bikle)
- Bikle T-6
Bilski
- Bilski Mewa (Gull) No.14 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925
Bína
(Karel Bína / B. Metyš & J. Litomyšl Matoušek)
- Bína Litomyšl-1
Binder
- Binder EB28
- Binder EB29
- Binder ASH-25 EB28
Biot
- Biot Massia
Birdman
(Birdman Enterprises)
- Birdman Project 102 Windsoar
Birmingham Guild
- Birmingham Guild BG-100
- Birmingham Guild BG-135
Birò Regina
- Birò Regina
Birrlauf
(Benny Birrlauf)
- Birrlauf Beny I
- Birrlauf Gerspach
Bisser
- Bisser – Bulgaria
Bistrama & Puławski
- Bistrama & Puławski SL-3 No.8 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925
Blaicher
(Michal Blaicher)
- Blaicher B.1
- Blaicher B-38
Bland
(Lilian E. Bland – Ireland)
Błażyński
(Alojzy Błażyński)
- Błażyński Polon – First Polish Glider Contest August 1923
Bleriot
(Louis Blériot)
- Blériot II
Blessing
(Gerhard Blessing / Sportverein Merseburg)
- Blessing Rebell
- Blessing V-7 Gleiter-Max
- Blessing Kolibri-B
- Blessing Falter-Scooter
Bley
(Bley Flugzeugbau GmbH, Naumberg)
- Bley M-Condor[9]
Blogoslawienstwo
- Blogoslawienstwo
Blohm & Voss
- Blohm & Voss BV 40
- Blohm & Voss BV 246
Bock
(John W. Bock)
- Bock 1
Boeing
- Boeing Steel Truss Glider
Bohatyrew
(Michal Bohatyrew)
- Bohatyrew Motyl
- Bohatyrew Miś (Miś - Teddy Bear) (No.12) – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925
Bohemia
(HALLER, Oldřich)
Böhm[disambiguation needed]
- Böhm Schmankerl foot-launched rigid flying wing glider
Bölkow
- Bölkow Phönix
- Bölkow Phoebus
Bolton[disambiguation needed]
- Bolton 1932
Bonn[disambiguation needed]
- Bonn Helge
- Bonn I Vulkan
- Bonn Schlägel und Eisen
Bonnet
(Pierre Bonnet - Louis Clément - Henri Mignet)
- Bonnet double monoplan
- Bonnet-Clément BC-1
- Bonnet-Clément BC-7
- Bonnet-Mignet 1923 glider
Bonnet-Labranche
(Émile Bonnet-Labranche / Ateliers vosgiens Saint Dié)
- Bonnet-Labranche 1909 glider
Bonomi
(Aeronautica Bonomi)
- Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante
- Bonomi BS.2 Balestruccio
- Bonomi BS.4 Basettino
- Bonomi BS.5 Ballerina
- Bonomi BS.7 Allievo Italia
- Bonomi BS.8 Biancone
- Bonomi BS.9 Bertina
- Bonomi BS.10 Ardea
- Bonomi BS.11 Milano
- Bonomi BS.12 Roma
- Bonomi BS.14 Astore
- Bonomi BS.15 Bigiarella
- Bonomi BS.16 Allievo Bonomi
- Bonomi BS.17 Allievo Cantù
- Bonomi BS.18 Airone
- Bonomi BS.19 Alca
- Bonomi BS.20 Albanella
- Bonomi BS.22 Alzavola
- Bonomi BS.24 Biposto Roma
- Bonomi BS.28 Alcione
- Bonomi BS.28 Aerodinamico
Borchn-Anemon
(BORCHN, A. A. & ANEMON, O. K.)
- Borchn-Anemon BA-1 Tandem (Борчн- Анмонов БА-1)
Borghese
- Borghese 1931 hyydroglider
Borzecki
(Jozef Borzecki)
- Borzecki Alto-Stratus
- Borzecki Cirrus
- Borzecki JB-4 Skowronek
- Borzecki Stratus
Bottini
- Bottini Mabo
Boulay-Ferrier
(Jacques Boulay & Hubert Ferrier)
- Boulay-Ferrier Condor[10]
Boulay-Menin
(Jacques Boulay & Menin)
- Boulay-Menin BM-1
Bourieau-Chapautau
- Bourieau-Chapautau glider
Bowers (glider constructor)
- Bowers Bantam
Bowlus
(Michael Bowlus)
Bowlus-du Pont
(William Hawley Bowlus)
- Bowlus M1-PU3
- Bowlus 1912 glider
- Bowlus Albatross 1 Falcon
- Bowlus Albatross 2
- Bowlus Albatross Senior
- Bowlus Dragontross
- Bowlus Flying Wing
- Bowlus Super Albatross
- Bowlus Super Sailplane
- Bowlus 1-S-2100 Senior Albatross
- Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross
- Bowlus BA-102 Two-place Baby Albatross
- Bowlus BS-100 Super Albatross
- Bowlus BT-100 Baby Albatross
- Bowlus BTS-100 Two-place Baby Albatross
- Bowlus G-100 Galloping Gertie
- Bowlus-Criz MC-1
- Bowlus-Criz MC-1 1/2 scale
- Bowlus SP-1 Paper Wing
- Bowlus XCG-7
- Bowlus XCG-8
- Bowlus XCG-16
- Bowlus/Nelson Dragonfly
- Bowlus XBM-5 -
- Bowlus XTG-12 TG-12 - 1942 Bowlus XBM-5,2-seat tandem-seat, mid-wing training glider, XBM-5 = Experimental Bowlus Military, Design number 5
- Bowlus XTG-12-BS: 2 completed (Baugher lists only 42-57200), 3 ordered
- Bowlus XTG-12A-BS: conflicting info., poss. side-by-side one ordered/poss. civil impress.
- Bowlus TG-12A-BS: [Project] production model, contract cancelled
- Bowlus TG-12B: unrelated Bowlus-DuPont built M1PU3** 'Utility', 1 impressed ([designer Heath] McDowell, 1-place, Utility, 3rd design [?])
Bramingham
- Bramingham 1934 glider
Bräutigam
(Bernhard Bräutigam / Flugzeugbau Braütigam G.m.b.H. Weimar)
- Bräutigam Super Orchidee (D-STURM regn.)
Brditschka
(Heinz Brditschka)
- Brditschka Raab Krähe
- Brditschka-Militki MB-E1 Electric One
- Brditschka HB-21
- Brditschka HB-22[10]
- Brditschka HB-23
Breeze
- Breeze Oozle Bird
Bréguet
(Société anonyme des ateliers d'aviation Louis Breguet)
- Bréguet Br 900 Louisette
- Bréguet Br 901 Mouette
- Bréguet Br 902 Cinzano
- Bréguet Br 903
- Bréguet Br 904 Nymphale
- Bréguet Br 905 Fauvette
- Bréguet Br 906 Choucas
- Bréguet Br 907
- Bréguet Colibri
- Bréguet P-1
- Bréguet P-2
Bremen-Lane
- Bremen-Lane glider
Bremer
(Karl Bremer)
- Bremer Max
- Bremer Strolch
- Bremer Motorisiert SG-38
Briegleb
(William G. Briegleb)
- Briegleb BG-01 Utility
- Briegleb BG-02
- Briegleb BG-03
- Briegleb BG-04
- Briegleb BG-06
- Briegleb BG-07
- Briegleb BG-08
- Briegleb BG-12
- Briegleb BG-16
- NASA Dryden-Briegleb M2-F1
- Briegleb TG-9
Briffaud
(Georges Briffaud)
- Briffaud GB-9
- Briffaud GB-80
Bright Star
- Bright Star Swift
Bristol
(Bristol Aeronautical Corporation)
- Bristol XLRQ
Bristol
(Bristol Aeroplane Company)
- Bristol Glider (1910)
Brno
(Brno Technical university)
- Brno Technical university ASP-3 – (a.k.a. NSv-3 Cyrillic acronym)
Broburn
(Broburn Sailplanes Ltd, Woodley)
- Broburn Wanderlust
Brochet
(Avions Maurice Brochet / Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet)
- Brochet Beynes-CAU
- Brochet Brocheteau
- Brochet MB-10 Ginette
- Brochet MB-20
Brochocki
(Stefan Brochocki, Witold Kasper and A. Bodek)
Brokker (glider constructor)
Brondel
(Christian Brondel)
- Brondel Cavok 10
- Brondel CB-12
- Brondel CB-15 Crystal
- Brondel Hélium
- Brondel ST-11
- Brondel ST-12
- Brondel ST-15
Brookes
(Wilfred Brookes)
- Brookes 1919 glider
Brown
(Vincent Brown & STC-GC (Sydney Technical College Gliding Club))
- Brown Two Seater
- Brown 1931 glider
- Brown Rebel
Bruni
(Giovanni Bruni / Aéroclub Vergiate)
Bryan Aircraft Company
See Schreder.
Brylinski
(Brylinski, Jacques & Wehrle, Jean)
- Brylinski JJ-2
- Brylinski JJ-3
- Brylinski Petrel
BS (glider constructor)
- BS 1K
BSV
(Berliner Segelflugvereins - HOHMUTH, Otto)
- BSV 1923 glider
- BSV Luftikus
Buchanan
(John Buchanan)
- Buchanan Ricochet
Bucher Leichtbau
(Heinrich Bucher) see Farner
Budig
(Friedrich Wilhelm Budig)
- Budig 1921 glider
Bums
- Bums glider
- Bünzli
(Bunzli, Henri René / Société de Construction d'Appareils Aériens, Levallois)
- Bünzli 1908 glider
Burbulmate
- Burbulmate
Busso
- Busso San Giorgio
Butterworth-Ypinazar
- Butterworth-Ypinazar Primary
Buxton
(G. Mungo Buxton)
- Buxton Hjordis
- Buxton Hjordis 2
- Buxton B-5
- Buxton Tailless Tailless
Buxton
(Jay Buxton)
- Buxton Roundair – Jay Buxton
- Buxton Transporter – Jay Buxton
Bydgoszczy
- Bydgoszczy Żabuś
Notes
- ↑ "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. http://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cynk, Jerzy B. (1971). Polish Aircraft 1893–1939. London: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-370-00085-5.
- ↑ "Bachem Lerche" (in French). 10 September 2013. https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=2102. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905 - 1974. Brasov.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: SchifferPublishing Limited. ISBN 0 7643 0752 5.
- ↑ Parmentier, Bruno (17 January 2013). "Bellanger-Denhaut, Planeur expérimental par Aviafrance" (in French). Paris. https://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=10265&ID_CONSTRUCTEUR=187&ANNEE=0&ID_MISSION=0&MOTCLEF=. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ↑ "Bellanger-Denhaut BD-1" (in fr). 6 September 2010. https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=243. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ↑ "The Rise and Demise of a Weapon (1)". Air Enthusiast (1972-03). http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft21602.htm.
- ↑ Schneider, Helmut (1936) (in German) (pdf). Flugzeug-Typenbuch 1936 (1936 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. p. 17.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN:0-7106-0748-2
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