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.

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Babiński

(Zbigniew Babiński)

  • Babiński 1912 glider[2]
  • Babiński 1913 glider[2]
  • Babiński II

BAC

(British Aircraft Company)

Bacerka

  • Bacerka (glider)

Bachem

(Eric Bachem / Bachem-Werke)

  • Bachem Leichtwindensegler
  • Bachem Lerche[3]
  • Bachem Thermikus

Backstrom

(Al Backstrom)

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)

  • Bǎrboi 1932 glider[4]
  • Bǎrboi 1934 glider[4]

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

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

Beaufort Gliding Club

(Lyon, Douglas – Beaufort Gliding Club, Victoria, Australia)

  • Beaufort Gliding Club Zephyrus
  • Beaufort Gliding Club Phoenix

Bede

(Jim Bede)

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)

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

  • Berliaux-Salètes 1909 glider no.1[5]
  • Berliaux-Salètes 1909 Pourquoi Pas? II[5]

Berliner Segelflugvereins

  • Berliner Segelflugvereins 1923 primary

Bertelli

  • Bertelli Aerostave

Bertin

(Bertin (glider constructor))

  • Bertin Compact
  • Bertin B-12

Besneux

(Alain Besneux)

Bielany School

  • Bielany School Glider

Bikle

(Paul Bikle)

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

Biot

  • Biot Massia

Birdman

(Birdman Enterprises)

Birmingham Guild

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)

Bland

(Lilian E. Bland – Ireland)

Błażyński

(Alojzy Błażyński)

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

Bock

(John W. Bock)

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

  • Böhm Schmankerl foot-launched rigid flying wing glider

Bölkow

Bolton

  • Bolton 1932

Bonn

  • 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)

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)

Bramingham

  • Bramingham 1934 glider

Bräutigam

(Bernhard Bräutigam / Flugzeugbau Braütigam G.m.b.H. Weimar)

  • Bräutigam Super Orchidee (D-STURM regn.)

Brditschka

(Heinz Brditschka)

Breeze

  • Breeze Oozle Bird

Bréguet

(Société anonyme des ateliers d'aviation Louis Breguet)

Bremen-Lane

  • Bremen-Lane glider

Bremer

(Karl Bremer)

  • Bremer Max
  • Bremer Strolch
  • Bremer Motorisiert SG-38

Briegleb

(William G. Briegleb)

Briffaud

(Georges Briffaud)

  • Briffaud GB-9
  • Briffaud GB-80

Bright Star

Bristol

(Bristol Aeronautical Corporation)

Bristol

(Bristol Aeroplane Company)

Brno

(Brno Technical university)

  • Brno Technical university ASP-3 – (a.k.a. NSv-3 Cyrillic acronym)

Broburn

(Broburn Sailplanes Ltd, Woodley)

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)

Brookes

(Wilfred Brookes)

  • Brookes 1919 glider

Brown

(Vincent Brown & STC-GC (Sydney Technical College Gliding Club))

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)

Buchanan

(John Buchanan)

  • Buchanan Ricochet

Bucher Leichtbau

(Heinrich Bucher) see Farner

Budig

(Friedrich Wilhelm Budig)

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

(Jay Buxton)

  • Buxton Roundair – Jay Buxton
  • Buxton Transporter – Jay Buxton

Bydgoszczy

  • Bydgoszczy Żabuś

Notes

  1. ↑ "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Cynk, Jerzy B. (1971). Polish Aircraft 1893–1939. London: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-370-00085-5.
  3. ↑ "Bachem Lerche". J2mcl planeurs (in French). 10 September 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905 - 1974. Brasov.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: SchifferPublishing Limited. ISBN 0 7643 0752 5.
  6. ↑ Parmentier, Bruno (17 January 2013). "Bellanger-Denhaut, Planeur expérimental par Aviafrance". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Bellanger-Denhaut BD-1". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "The Rise and Demise of a Weapon (1)". Air Enthusiast (1972–03).
  9. ↑ Schneider, Helmut (1936). Flugzeug-Typenbuch 1936 (pdf)|format= requires |url= (help) (in German) (1936 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. p. 17.
  10. 1 2 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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