List of gliders (G)

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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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Gabelier

(Raymond Gabelier)

Gad'Arts

Galatasaray

(Galatasaray High School)

Gallaudet

(Edson Fessenden Gallaudet)

Gannet

Garalevičiaus-Kulvinskio

(J. Garalevičiaus & A. Kulvinskio)

Gardner

(L. Gardner)

Garstecki

(Tadeusz Garstecki)

GATC

(General Airborne Transport Company)

GBMZ

(GBMZ / August Hug)

GCSA

(William Stancliffe Shackleton & Harold Bradley / GCSA -Gliding Club of South Australia)

Gehrlein

General Aircraft

(General Aircraft Ltd.)

Gilbert

(J. Gilbert)

Gilbert

(Octave Gilbert)

Ginn-Lesniak

(Vic Ginn & Lesniak / London Gliding Club, Dunstable)

Giuncu-Popa

(Octavian Giuncu & Ovidiu Popa / Atelierele de Reparaţii Material Volant - ARMV-2)

Glaser-Dirks

See DG Flugzeugbau .

Glasfaser Velino

(Glasfaser Italiana SpA)

Glasflügel

Glidersport

Gluhareff

Gluhareff M. S., Helsingfors (H. Adaridy & M.S. Gluhareff, Helsingfors)

Gnewikow

(Karl Gnewikow)

Godwin

(C.G. Godwin)

Gomolzig

See Caproni Vizzola.

Göppingen

(Martin Schempp / Wolf Hirth / Sportflugzeugbau Schempp-Hirth)

Gordon England

(E.C. Gordon England / Georges England Ltd, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey)

Görlitz

(D.L.V. Gruppe Görlitz)

Gotha

(Gothaer Waggonfabrik)

Göttingen

(Flieger Ortsgruppe Göttingen / Flavag - Fliegergruppe der Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt Göttingen / NSFK Ortsgruppe Göttingen )

GP Gliders

Graf von Saurma

GRAL

(Groupe rouennais d'aviation légère)

Grandin

(Henry Grandin)

Granneman

(Hans Granneman)

Green-Tweed

(Frank Green & George Tweed)

Greif

(Greif Flugzeugbau Rendsburg)

Gremyatsky

(Anatoli Grematsky)

Gribovsky

(Vladislav K. Gribovsky)

Grob

(GROB-WERKE Burkhart Grob e.K.)

Grodziska

Grokhovskii

(Pavel Ignatyevich Grokhovskii)

Gropp

(Herbert Gropp)

Groshev

(G.F. Groshev – USSR)

Gross

(Dr. Frank R. Gross)

Grossklaus

(Helmut Grossklaus)

Group Genesis

Groux

(Georges Groux)

Gruse

(Maschinenfabrik August Gruse)

Grzeszczyk

(Szczepan Grzeszczyk)

Grzmilas

(Tadeusz Grzmilas)

Guerchais-Roche

(Établissement Roche / Ateliers Roche Aviation)

Guignard

(Donat Guignard)

Guilhabert

(Msr. Guilhabert from Gaillac, France)

Gumpert

(Bruno Gumpert)

Günar

GVV Dal Molin

(Grupo Volo a Vela Tommaso Dal Molin))

Gyõr

(Gyõr Soaring Club, Gyõr - Aeroclub of the Rolling-stock Factory, Gyõr)

Gysas

(A. Gysas)

Notes

  1. "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: SchifferPublishing Limited. ISBN   0-7643-0752-5.
  3. "News" . Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Gunston, Bill (1995). The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995 (1st ed.). London: Osprey Publishing. ISBN   978-1-85532-405-3.
  5. "Guerchais-Roche GR-70". Aviafrance.com. 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  6. "Guerchais-Roche GR-105". Aviafrance.com. 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  7. "Guerchais-Roche GR-107". Aviafrance.com. 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

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