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(Wojskowe Warsztaty Szybowcowe – military glider workshops)
(Gerhard Waibel & Dick Butler & Loek Boermans & Johannes Dillinger)
(Józef Walis)
- Wallisa S-I (Willis S.1 or Walis S-1) No.18 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925
- Wallisa S-III No.19 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925
(Don Walther of Christchurch, New Zealand )
(J. Warczewski – No.16 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925)
(Martin Warner & Allan J. Campbell)
(Chrzanowski-Gymnasiums in Warszawa)
(Ets. Benjamin Wassmer / Wassmer Aviation SA)
(J.P. Watson & Jack Northrop)
(Günther Weber - East Germany [DDR - Deutsches Demokratische Republik])
(R. J. Westmacott & K. Westmacott)
(Martin Wezel Flugzeugtechnik)
(Gustave Whitehead, née Weiskopf)
(Kuno Widmaier / IPE - Industria Paranaense de Estruturas)
(Hans Widmer / Matheus Avallone Sobrinho & Kurt Hendrich)
(Geoffrey Neville Wikner)
(Josef Immer & Alexander Dewald)
(WLM Flugingenieure / Rudolf Sägesser / Isler & Co, Wildegg / H. Sägesser, Flugzeugbbau, Herzogenbuchsee)
(Wilbur & Orville Wright)
(Warsztaty Szybowcowe – glider workshops)
(Wiegand und Wisser Sportflugzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG)
Military gliders have been used by the militaries of various countries for carrying troops and heavy equipment to a combat zone, mainly during the Second World War. These engineless aircraft were towed into the air and most of the way to their target by military transport planes, e.g., C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, or bombers relegated to secondary activities, e.g., Short Stirling. Most military gliders do not soar, although there were attempts to build military sailplanes as well, such as the DFS 228.
The Jacobs R-755 is a seven-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft manufactured in the United States by the Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company.
The Waco Aircraft Company (WACO) was an aircraft manufacturer located in Troy, Ohio, United States. Between 1920 and 1947, the company produced a wide range of civilian biplanes.
The Wassmer WA-51 Pacific is a French four-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by Société Wassmer. Different-powered variants include the Wassmer WA-52 Europa and the Wassmer WA-54 Atlantic. It was the world's first composite material-built aircraft.
Operation Turkey Buzzard, also known as Operation Beggar, was a British supply mission to North Africa that took place between March and August 1943, during the Second World War. The mission was undertaken by No. 2 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment and No. 295 Squadron Royal Air Force, prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily. Unusually, the mission was known by different names in different branches of the British Armed Forces: the British Army called the operation "Turkey Buzzard", while in the Royal Air Force it was known as "Beggar".
The Wassmer WA-30 Bijave is a French two-seat advanced training glider designed and built by Wassmer Aviation of Issoire.
Robertson Aircraft Corporation was a post-World War I American aviation service company based at the Lambert-St. Louis Flying Field near St. Louis, Missouri, that flew passengers and U.S. Air Mail, gave flying lessons, and performed exhibition flights. It also modified, re-manufactured, and resold surplus military aircraft including Standard J, Curtiss Jenny/Canuck, DeHavilland DH-4, Curtiss Oriole, Spad, Waco, and Travel Air types in addition to Curtiss OX-5 engines.
The Wassmer WA 26 Squale is a single seat, 15 m (49 ft 3 in) span competition glider, designed and produced in France in the late 1960s. It has wooden wings and a glass fibre fuselage. The Wassmer WA 28 Espadon is an aerodynamically very similar development with a glass fibre wing.
The Wassmer WA 20 Javelot and its very similar successors the WA 21 Javelot II and WA 22 Super Javelot are single seat gliders built in France in the 1950s and 1960s. Well over a hundred were sold as club aircraft and over fifty remain on the French civil register in 2010.
Charles Townsend Ludington, , was a businessman of Philadelphia. He was an aviation pioneer who helped establish an every-hour-on-the-hour air service between New York and Washington. His airline ultimately became Eastern Airlines. He designed airports, airplanes, and gliders. One of his designs became a Navy training airplane. Another of his designs was a crash protection device installed on Navy airplanes that saved pilot lives. Ludington also make a line of boats that were designed by a professional outboard boat racer.
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