The Penrose Pegasus was a single-seat light sailplane designed and built by H.J. Penrose at Yeovil, UK, in 1935. First flown in 1935, becoming BGA.232. It was burnt post war.
Glider
Pemberton-Billing 1904 glider
A triangular kite on which Noel Pemberton Billing tried to glide from the roof of his house at East Grinstead in 1904. From this inauspicious start he went on to start the aviation industry that was renamed to Supermarine after he sold his interests.
Peel Glider Boat
The Peel Glider Boat Company of Flushing Bay, NY was in business around 1930, designing and building the Glider Boat, a biplane glider with stepped flying boat hull and wingtip floats. A number of examples were sold.
The two occupants sat in tandem in an open cockpit with conventional controls, but without instruments. The structure was wooden spar, steel ribs, fabric covered, and a duralumin hull.
Normal method of launch was behind a motor boat, the towrope being joined to a bridle which attached to either side of the nose outside the front cockpit.
One example belongs to the National Soaring Museum.
Wing span: 9.45 m / 31 ft
Wing area: 25.08 sq.m / 270 sq.ft
Empty Weight: 113 kg / 250 lb
Payload: 159 kg / 350 lb
Gross Weight: 272 kg / 600 lb
Wing Load: 10.84 kg/sq.m / 2.2 lb/sq.ft
L/DMax: 15
Seats: 2
Peel Glider Boat Co
The Peel Glider Boat Company of Flushing Bay, NY was in business around 1930, designing and building the Glider Boat, a biplane glider with stepped flying boat hull and wingtip floats.
Peak Sailplanes
Mr P.R. Street established Peak Sailplanes Ltd at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, in 1962 to build Peak 100 two-seat sailplane that had previously been designed by the Bedford Sailplane Group. It was built in a converted cotton mill in Chapel-en-le-Frith and had its first flight at Cranfield, Bedfordshire on 5 February 1963.
It was the intention to put the Peak 100 into production and work commenced on the jigs that would be required.
Mr Street joined Slingsby Sailplanes as Managing Director in 1964 and Peak Sailplaned changed its name to Sailplane & Engineering Services Ltd, specialising in glider repair and trailers, from Holmfield Rd, Burbage, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Payne I.C.1
When the Imperial College Gliding Club was formed in February 1930, it had no gliders and therefore decided to build its own. This was designed by J. H. Payne and built by students, with materials donated by the Rector, Sir Henry Tizard. Parts were made in the Chemistry and Glass workshop of the college and the glider was assembled in Payne’s garden.
The I.C.1 had a straight, constant chord, thick section wing built around two spruce box spars with plywood webs. The I-section ribs were also made from spruce and ply, the leading edge from ply and the trailing edge form dural. It had outboard ailerons but neither flaps nor airbrakes. The fuselage was an open frame structure with two horizontal, parallel booms that ran rearwards from the wing spars to the tail, where two cross braces carried the tailplane. A pair of N-form struts converged below the wing onto a third boom, horizontal below the wing then angled upwards to the tail, joining the rear cross brace via a short vertical member and two angled ones. The three long booms formed a triangular section girder that did not require further wire bracing.
The pilot’s seat and control column were mounted, unenclosed, on the lower beam ahead on the wing; below him a shallow, curved member served as a keel for landing. The lower beam also provided an attachment point for lift wires, one on each side, to the forward wing spar. Above the wing two further pairs of wires ran from a central, three strut cabane to both spars. The tail surfaces were straight edged and the fin small, its leading edge formed by a sloping member that joined the forward transverse member at the front of the tailplane to the lower fuselage beam. The rudder extended to the lower fuselage.
Named The Incredible, the I.C.1 was completed during the Club’s summer camp at Gore Farm, near Shaftesbury, in September 1930.
During preparation for its first flight, the Incredible was overturned by a gust of wind and damaged. It was stored at Gore Farm and repair work was begun in the 1931 Easter vacation but never completed and the SC.1 never flew. In December 1930 the club had bought a R.F.D. Primary (Dagling), a steel framed version of the German Zogling, which they designated I.C.II and were soon flying regularly.
Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m)
Wing area: 179 sq ft (16.6 m2)
Aspect ratio: 7.2
Airfoil: Probably Bairstow Aerofoil B
Length: 19 ft 5 in (5.92 m)
Height: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Empty weight: 190 lb (86 kg)
Capacity: 1
Payne, J.H.
Mr J,H.Payne designed two gliders in the 1930s.
The IC.1 single-seat Primary was built at the Imperial College, London, UK, in 1931.
The second, the Granta single-seat utility glider was commenced by the Cambridge University Gliding Club in 1931 but thought not finished.
Payen Sailplane
Nicolas Roland Payen built a sailplane at 14 years age.
Payen
Nicolas Roland Payen is known as the inventor of the “fléchair”, marrying delta wing and canard wing. Payen built a sailplane at 14 years age, and deposited his first patent at 18 years. After studies at an Aeronautical University, and the field of hang-gliders, he first built a small single-seater AP-10, studied in collaboration with Aubrun. It was a light monoplane with triangular wing with a short length. This machine flew in Dieppe in 1935 and 1936, equipped with an AVA engine of 25 hp, then later a TRAIN of 40 hp. The AP-10 was extrapolated into the two-seater AP-12 (also called PA-120), which had the same concept a hang-glider, with self-stabilizing profile. The two-seater was to be equipped with an engine of 40 to 50 hp. Unlike the AP-10, the AP-12 did not leave the drawing board. Payen then concentrated more on delta aerofoils. After the war Payen built the single-seater jet PA-49 “Katy”, precursor of the “Mirage” series of the planes with delta wing, and two-seater PA-61 “Arbalète”.
Pause, Rudolf
In 1929 Rudolf Pause caused a sensation with a muscle-powered swing plane developed in his company. From a hill on what is now Bodenseestrasse, Pause takes “incredible” leaps in the air, according to the archive authors, with a range of twelve meters.
According to the plans of designer Adalbert Schmid, who works for him, they build a swing-wing glider. On June 26, 1942, the muscular-strength aircraft will set out on a 900-meter flight on a meadow on Agnes-Bernauer-Strasse, where the Westbad is today. If you believe the pause experts from the Pasinger Archive, then it was the world’s first manned swing flight.
As a result, Schmid and Pause will of course equip the swing wing with motors, but the project comes to an abrupt end. The Nazi rulers believe that it is not important to the war effort.
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