5/27/2023 0 Comments Baby glider![]() At the moment the tiny robot - a sheet just half a millimetre thick, scarcely thicker than a piece of paper - only folds itself into a boat, like a child's toy, or a "paper glider" plane shape. The rear fuselage upper decking was removed to accommodate the propeller and reduce drag from prop-wash.Tom Chivers London Telegraph JPentagon research scientists have taken a first step towards "Transformers"-style shape-shifting cars and aircraft, with a robot that can fold itself like origami into different forms. Motor-Baby A motor-glider conversion, (D-YBIF), powered by a Kroeber M4 2-stroke engine driving a pusher propeller behind the centre-section. One (registered NX15539) was impressed into USAAF service in 1942 as the TG-14 ( s/n 42-57183). Stiglmeier with the wings of a Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross. Edmund Schneider emigrated to Australia, where he developed the Baby design into his Baby 3 and Baby 4, which had enclosed cockpits.Ī French Nord 1300 circa 1970 License production in France by Nord Aviation Elliotts Baby EoN License production in England by Elliotts of Newbury One is now at the Gliding Heritage Centre Slingsby T5 License production in England by Slingsby Sailplanes Baby 3 Postwar redesign, with an enclosed cockpit, by Edmund Schneider after he emigrated to Australia Baby 4 Further improvements made for production in Australia Baby V A two-seat version using Baby III wings with a new tandem seat fabric covered steel tube fuselage AB Flygplan Se-102 License production in Sweden for the Royal Swedish Air Force Hawkridge Grunau Baby licence-built Grunau Babys TG-27 Grunau Baby Grunau Babys impressed into the USAAF in 1942 IFIL-Reghin RG-1 Grunau Babys built in Romania under licence Stiglmeier S.24 Variant by Herman J. The Baby was also built in France (as the Nord 1300) and the United Kingdom (as the Elliotts Baby EoN and the Slingsby T5 - Slingsby also used it as the basis for a number of their own designs). ![]() Following World War II, series production restarted in Germany in 1956. This version and the definitive Baby IIb that followed were adopted as standard sailplane trainers for the German Air Sports Association (later the National Socialist Flyers Corps).ĭuring 1941, 30 GB gliders were built by Laminação Nacional de Metais, later Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista in Brazil, under the name "Alcatraz". ![]() An extensive redesign was undertaken in 1932 following the fatal crash of an unrelated Schneider design, which resulted in the Baby II. The Baby was an instant success, and was enthusiastically promoted by gliding champion Wolf Hirth. Typical for its day, it was a high-wing braced monoplane with a fuselage of hexagonal cross-section and an open cockpit. The intention was to create an aircraft suitable both for training and for cross-country soaring. The tips and leading edges of the wings up to the main spar were covered with plywood. The first 14 inner ribs were of the Göttingen 535 shape with the outer ribs gradually changing up to the last 22nd rib, having a bi-convex and symmetrical shape with a slight reduction in the angle of incidence. It was named after Grunau, the town where Schneider's factory was located, now Jeżów Sudecki in Poland. ![]() It was designed by Edmund Schneider with the assistance of Wolf Hirth and Hugo Kromer as a smaller version of Schneider's ESG 31 of the previous year, incorporating an elliptical wing design based on work done by Akaflieg Darmstadt. Grunau Baby III from the Wasserkuppe Museum at the 2009 Munich Oktoberfest ![]()
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