| Araponga | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Type | Sailplane |
| National origin | Brazil |
| Manufacturer | Rio Claro Aero Club |
| Designer | Sílvio de Oliveira |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 1985 |
The Rio Claro Araponga (Brazilian Portuguese name for the Neotropical bellbird), was a single-seat sailplane of high-wing. [1] [2]
In 1983, a group of aviators from the Rio Claro aero club decided to hire Sílvio de Oliveira, an aeronautical engineer, to develop a high performance monoplace glider. Initially it was planned to build two copies, the resources were pooled among the members. With classic lines and entirely built in native wood, with a plywood outer cover, it had conventional landing gear flaps formed by a fixed skid and a fixed roller, semi-embedded on the fuselage and fixed skid under the tail.
Data from Taylor 1986, p. 740, Pereira 1997, p. 360
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