List of gliders (L)

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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List of gliders
By constructor name
Lists of aircraft

L

La Mouette

(Hang gliders - Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France)

L.A.D.

(Light Aircraft Development Co.)

Laffont-Mouillard-Cousin
  • Laffont-Mouillard-Cousin 1915 glider[2]

Lagasse

(Jean-René Lagasse)

  • Lagasse 1901 glider
  • Lagasse Cruiser
  • Lagasse Éole A
  • Lagasse Éole B
  • Lagasse R-4
  • Lagasse R-9
  • Lagasse Simplex
  • Lagasse Sulky
  • Lagasse Sulky-Biplace

Laister

( Jack W. Laister / Laister-Kauffmann)

LAK

(LAK – Lietuviška Aviacinė Konstrukcija / (some production by ESAG – Eksperimentine Sportines Aviacijos Gamykla)

Lampich

(Ãrpád Lampich / Gyõr Soaring Club, Gyõr)

Lamson

(Phil Lamson)

Lamson

(Robert Lamson)

Landmann

(Hermann Landmann – Institut für Flugzeugkonstruktion der Technischen Hochschule Dresden)

  • Landmann Jupp
  • Landmann La-03
  • Landmann La-06
  • Landmann LA-16 V-1 Lerche
  • Landmann LA-16 V-2 Heidelerche
  • Landmann LA-17
  • Krüger Schlägel und Eisen – Hermann Landmann & Nowack

Landes-Derouin

(Landes Frères & Derouin - Robert Landes, Théo Landes and Derouin / Louis Bréguet)

  • Landes-Derouin
  • Landes Oiseau Bleu
  • Landes-Bréguet Mouette

Lange

Langhammer

(Egon Scheibe / Bitz-Linner-Zoller)

  • Langhammer L-10 Libelle

Langley

(Ernest Langley)

  • Langley Sailplane

Larson
  • Larson Utility

Latimer-Needham

(C. H. Latimer-Needham / R.F.D. Co, Guilford)

Latvian Aero Club Olaine
  • Vanadzins

Laubenthal

(Paul Laubenthal)

Lauk

(Peep Lauk – Estonia)

  • Lauk Flying Wing – Estonia – Lauk, Peep

Launics

(Fricis Launics / 48th Glider Aviator Group, Krustpils (LU))

  • Launics Krustpilietis

Lawrence

(L.W. Lawrence)

  • Lawrence Water Glider

Lazarov

(Tzvetan Lazarov / DAR (Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnica) - Bozurishte, Bulgaria)

  • Lazarov Polkovnik Drangov (Лазаров Дрангов)

LCF

(Luftsport-Club Friedrichshafen)

le Bris

(Jean-Marie le Bris)

  • le Bris Aéro-Voilier
  • le Bris Albatros
  • le Bris La Barque Ailée

Lee-Richards

(Cedric Lee & G. Tilghman Richards / annular wing patent from G.J.A. Kitchen, Williband Franz Zelger and Isaac Henry Storey)

Leeming

(John Fishwick LEEMING, Clement WOOD & Tom PRINCE)

  • Leeming LPW

Leffler-MacFarlane

(Al Leffler, Walt MacFarlane, Bill Meyer)

Lefort

(Lucien Lefort)

  • Lefort Triplan

Leonard

(Bob Leonard)

Leonard

(Whitmar Leonard / Leonard Motorless Aircraft, 32 Crescent Street, N.w., Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Leroy

(G. Leroy (Professeur Technique à l'École Professionelle d'Évreux)/ Aéroc-Club de l'Eure)

  • Leroy MP-30-CV
  • Leroy Motoplaneur

Lesh-Wulpi

(Lawrence J. Lesh & James M. Wulpi)

  • Lesh 1907
  • Lesh-Wulpi 1908 glider

Letov

Let Kunovice

LETOV

(LETOV - Yugoslavia)

  • LETOV Cavka
  • LETOV Jastreb 54
  • LETOV KB-1 Triglav I
  • LETOV K2A Triglav II
  • LETOV KB-2 Udarnik
  • LETOV KB-3 Triglav III
  • LETOV KB-5 Jadran
  • LETOV KB-9
  • LETOV KBI-14 Mačka
  • LETOV (AK-ST-21) 21
  • LETOV (AK-ST-22) 22
  • LETOV Vrabac A

Leyat

(Marcel Leyat / Mr Audra / Association Française Aérienne)

  • Leyat 1909 glider
  • Leyat 1924 glider

LFG

(G. Baatz / Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft, Stralsund)

LIBIS

(Letalski Institut "Branko Ivanus" Slovenia)

  • LIBIS-17 – PRHAVC, Jože
  • LIBIS 18
  • LIBIS L-22[5]
  • Libis KB-17 Kondor
  • Libis KB-18

Lightwing

(Lightwing Research / John M. Lee)

Lilienthal

(Otto Lilienthal)

Lindner

(Fiberglas-Technik Rudolf Lindner)

  • Lindner Phoebus B3[3]

Lippisch

(Alexander Lippisch)

Liwentaal

(Alexandre Liwentaal)

  • Liwentaal Aerostat – Alexandre Liwentaal

LO

(LO-Fluggerätebau)

Loessl (Eugen)

(Eugen von Loessl - killed on the Wasserkuppe on 9 August 1920 flying the E.v.L.1)

  • Lössl E.v.L.1[8]

Loessl (Ernst)

(Ernst von Loessl - cousin of Eugen von Loessl)

Lohner

(Lohner Flugzeugbau)

  • Lohner-Burchardt III (Wilhelm Burchardt)
  • Lohner-Umlauff Rodelgleiter (Lohner & Hans von Umlauff)
  • Lohner Kress (Leopold Bauer)

Loitron-Delage

(Loitron & Delage)

  • Loitron-Delage 1909 glider

Lombarda

(Aeronautica Lombarda / Camillo Silva)

  • Lombarda AL-3 / Silva AL-3
  • Lombarda GP.1 Pinguino / Pinguino GP.1 (GP – Maurizio Garbell & Ermenegildo Preti)
  • Lombarda GP.2 Asiago / Asiago GP.2
  • Lombarda AL-12P
  • Lombarda A.R.
  • Lombarda Assalto Radioguidato

Lommatzsch

(VEB Apparatebau Lommarzsch, Raubaaerstr. 4, Lommatzsch/Sa. (DDR))

L.O.P.P.

(L.O.P.P. – Liga Obrony Powietrznej i Przeciwgazowej – League of Air and Anti-gas Defence / Icarus)

  • L.O.P.P. Poznan Ikar

Loravia
  • Loravia KV-1[12]
  • Loravia KV-2[13]
  • Loravia KV-3A[14]
  • Loravia KV-4[15]
  • Loravia LCA-10 Topaze[16]
  • Loravia LCA-11 Topaze[17]

Lössl

(Ernst von Lössl)

  • Lössl SB-1 Münchener Eindecker
  • Lössl SB-2
  • Lössl SB-3
  • Lössl E.v.L.1
  • Lössl 1920 Wasserkuppe Glider

Lowe-Wylde

(Charles H. Lowe-Wylde)

  • Lowe-Wylde Columbus

Loyko Tandem L-1

(LOYKO & Soc. Aviakim (USSR))

  • Loyko Tandem L-1[18]

Lucas

(Émile Lucas / Avions Émile Lucas)

Luków School
  • Luków School Glider

Lunds Tekniske
  • Lunds Tekniske Silhiuette

Lünger-Kohler

(Hans Lünger & Josef Kohler)

  • Lünger-Kohler Beta 1

Lush

(Vladimir S. Lush)

  • Lush Swift

Lüty

(Paul Lüty / Sportflugzeugbau, Hülserstrasse 398, Krefeld)

  • Luty Ly-542 K Stösser

Lutz

(Werner Lutz)

  • Lutz Welu-48

LWL

(Lwowskie Warsztaty Lotnicze – Lwów Aviation Workshops)

  • P.W.S.101
  • P.W.S.102 Rekin (Shark)
  • P.W.S.103

Lwowskich Uczniów

(Kazimierz Baszniak, Wlodzimierz Siemiuła & Aleksander Sokalski)

  • Lwowskich Uczniów 1910 glider

Lyushin Maori

(S. N. Lyushin)

  • Lyushin Maori – S. N. Lyushin

Notes
  1. "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. Davilla, Dr. James J.; Soltan, Arthur M. French aircraft of the First World War. Flying Machines Press. ISBN 1891268090.
  3. Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2
  4. Mrazek, James E. (1977). Fighting gliders of World War II. London: Hale. pp. 37-42. ISBN 978-0312289270.
  5. Taylor, John W.R. FRHistS. ARAeS (1962). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1962-63. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co Ltd.
  6. John W.R. Taylor, ed. (1987). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1987-88. London: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 9780710608505.
  7. Taylor, John W.R., ed. (1988). Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1988-89. London: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0 7106 0867 5.
  8. "Lössl E.v.L.1". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net. 2010-08-12. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  9. "Loessl SB-2". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net. 2009-11-15. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  10. Langsdorff, Werner von (1931). Das Segelflugzeug (in German). München: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag.
  11. "Loessl SB-3". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net. 2009-12-30. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  12. "Loravia KV-1". Team J2mcL. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  13. "Loravia KV-2". Team J2mcL. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  14. "Loravia KV-3A". Team J2mcL. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  15. "Loravia KV-4". Team J2mcL. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  16. "Loravia LCA-10 Topaze". Team J2mcL. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  17. "Loravia LCA-11 Topaze". Team J2mcL. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  18. "Loyko Tandem L-1". j2mcl-planeurs (in French). 1 April 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.

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