Glider: without engine aircraft

Create cleaner air transport, despite the fact that it goes no such leaps and bounds as the development of conventional aviation is gradually bearing fruit. The so-called gliders, which are none other than the aircraft without engine, allow you to travel long distances, and it is likely that in the very near future, passenger transportation on gliders will be quite real and affordable.

Few predict when the first one appears. aircraft without engineBecause more known paintings in the homes of the Mayan, which show original phones allow you to navigate in the air. However, modern glider is an aircraft that is not equipped with an engine, but allows you to move through the air at the expense of aerodynamic lift.

Nevertheless, all gliders are divided into three types, depending on how they are run:

1. Delivered to a place of free flight by another aircraft;
2. Starts with a special glider winches;
3. Starts using its own internal combustion engine, which is required solely for this purpose, and after takeoff, the glider begins to move due to the aerodynamic lift force.

It's possible you'll be surprised by the fact that the glider, he is aircraft without engine, Can fly at an altitude of 1000 meters, under conditions of calm air, a distance of 60 kilometers. Due to the high quality of the pilot, this distance can be slightly increased, but the longest flight in history on the glider is a flight made in 2003 by a German citizen - Klaus Olman made an air flight for a distance of 3009 kilometers. Agree that if you continue to work in this direction, in the very near future gliders will be able to transport the first passengers, however, the main indicator here is, of course, the safety of such flights, and given that the landing site may not be the most level, So far on the use of gliders in civil air transport is still an unrealizable idea.

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