Sir George Cayley Glider

[Castille7]

Sir George Cayley Glider

Often I like to reflect back to the early days of flying to educate myself a little about these Aeronautic Pioneers. Today I would like to show some honor to Sir George Cayley. In 1799 he set forth the concept of the modern Aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.

Straight out of Jebediah's Junk Yard is what I'd like to say about this craft, although the craft will give you the sensation of how fun flying these early craft must have been, well somewhat! Powered by two Juno Engines and controlled by Elevons and Conards. Thanks for checking out my latest build and I hope you enjoy it until my next Pioneer's Craft Build.

 

 

 

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Spoiler

Flight Operation:
*** IMPORTANT TO SWITCH CONTROL TO THE OKTO2 TO FLY ***
Use SAS, full throttle, lift near 60 m/s is working nice but less or more speed could be done.

Craft File: Sir George Cayley Glider
Parts: 150
Mass: 5.060t
Height: 5.8m
Width: 9.4m
Length: 12.8m

Edited December 22, 2017 by Castille7

[Matuchkin]

Subtitles describe how Cayley was a pioneer of aviation and how his glider was a first, while said glider is shown zipping around and doing insane maneuvers as if its a fighter.

[Castille7]

6 minutes ago, Matuchkin said:

Subtitles describe how Cayley was a pioneer of aviation and how his glider was a first, while said glider is shown zipping around and doing insane maneuvers as if its a fighter.

I thought the same thing, but hey that's the KSP part of the craft! I'm sure we all know this is nothing like the flight of the real one. That's why a stay away from saying replica.