List of gliders (B)

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.

B

Babiński

(Zbigniew Babiński)

Babiński 1912 glider^[2]
Babiński 1913 glider^[2]
Babiński II

BAC

(British Aircraft Company)

Bacerka

Bacerka (glider)

Bachem

(Eric Bachem / Bachem-Werke)

Bachem Leichtwindensegler
Bachem Lerche^[3]
Bachem Thermikus

Backstrom

(Al Backstrom)

Baden-Baden

(Segelflugzeugwerke Baden-Baden)

Baden-Baden glider

Bagalini

(BAGALINI, Marino)

Bailey-Moyes

(Bob Bailey / Moyes Microlights Pty Ltd)

Bailey-Moyes Tempest

Baitler

(Miroslav Baitler / I. skupina konstruktérů Aero, Praha (Prague))

Můra 1922

Baker McMillen

(Frank Gröss / Baker McMillen)

Baker McMillen Cadet

Ball

(James Noel Ball)

Ball 1929 glider
Ball 1930 glider

Bange

(John J. Bange)

Bange 1936 glider
Bange Azure Star

Bange

(John J. Bange - Clifton, Queensland, Australia)

Bange Azure Star (Bange Z-B-I)
Bange Azure Star II (Bange Z-B-II)

Bango-Schmid

(Bango & Schmid)

Bango-Schmid 1930 glider

Barbat-Dunn-Rigby

(BARBAT, Edward & DUNN, Colin & RIGBY, Colin)

Barbat-Dunn-Rigby GBDR

Bărboi

(Ion Bărboi)

Bărboi 1932 glider^[4]
Bărboi 1934 glider^[4]

Bardin

(René Bardin)

Bardin Alérion
Bardin Alérion Biplace
Bardin B-1 Vauville

Barel

(Graal Aéro / Max Barel)

Barel Graal

Barnaby

(Ralph Barnaby)

Ralph Barnaby 1909 glider

Baron

(A. Baron)

Baron Aéro Ramo-Planeur^[5]

Barratt-Bradley

(Jock Barratt & Harold Bradley / Waikerie Gliding Club)

Barratt-Bradley Pelican 2

Barros

(Cláudio Pinto de Barros / Centro de Estudos Aeronáuticos (CEA) / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil)

Barros CB-1 Gaivota

Barszczowski

(Walenty Barszczowski)

Barszczowski 1913 Glider

Barta

(Karl Barta)

Barta Dactylus 2
Barta Dactylus 3

Bartel

(Ryszard Bartel)

Bartel 1 Glider
Bartel 2 Glider

Bartos/Nobel

Bartos/Nobel BN-1 Phantom

Bates

(Carl Stephen BATES, Clear Lake, Iowa (USA) / Popular Mechanics)

Popular Mechanics Glider

Baudoux-Orta

(Pierre Baudoux & José Orta / Ateliers Orta, Saint-Hubert, Belgium)

Baudoux-Orta SBO

Ted Bauer

(Ted Bauer / San Gabriel Academy students, Californie, USA)

Bauer Bird

Bäumer

(Bäumer Aero GmbH, Hamburg / Paul Bäumer)

Bäumer B-1 Roter Vogel

Bazin

(Albert Bazin)

Bazin 1904
Bazin 1905
Bazin 1909

Bazzocchi

(Ermanno Bazzocchi)

Bauer

Bauer Bz.II

Beatty-Johl

Beatty-Johl BJ-2 Assegai
Beatty-Johl BJ-3
Beatty-Johl BJ-4

Beaufort Gliding Club

(Lyon, Douglas – Beaufort Gliding Club, Victoria, Australia)

Beaufort Gliding Club Zephyrus
Beaufort Gliding Club Phoenix

Bede

(Jim Bede)

Bekmanis

(Edvins Bekmanis)

Bekmanis Gaigalina
Bekmanis Spriditis

Bėkšta

(Romualdas Bėkšta)

Bėkšta RB-11

Belin brothers.

Belin bros. 1908 glider

Bellanger-Denhaut

(DENHAUT, François - BELLANGER Frères)

Bellanger-Denhaut BD-1^[6]^[7]

Belyayev

(Viktor Nikolayevich Belyayev)

Belyayev BP-3
Belyayev EF-1
Belyayev EF-2

Benes

(Pavel Beneš)

Benes LD 605 Haban - post-war military assault glider under construction, but cancelled 1951^[8]

Bennett-Carter

(George Bennett & Richard Carter)

Bennett-Carter Dottie S

Benz

(Ing. Hans Benz, Mönchen-Gladbach.)

Benz Be-2

Berca

(Jorge Berca)

Berca JB-1
Berca JB-2
Berca JB-3
Berca JB-4

Berger

(M. Berger in Lyon and flown by Gardey)

Berger 1905 glider^[5]

Berkshire

(Berkshire Manufacturing Corporation)

Berkshire Concept 70

Berkout

Berkout (glider)

Berliaux-Salètes

Berliaux-Salètes 1909 glider no.1^[5]
Berliaux-Salètes 1909 Pourquoi Pas? II^[5]

Berliner Segelflugvereins

Berliner Segelflugvereins 1923 primary

Bertelli

Bertelli Aerostave

Bertin

(Bertin (glider constructor))

Bertin Compact
Bertin B-12

Besneux

(Alain Besneux)

Besneux P.70

Bielany School

Bielany School Glider

Bikle

(Paul Bikle)

Bikle T-6

Bilski

Bilski Mewa (Gull) No.14 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925

Bína

(Karel Bína / B. Metyš & J. Litomyšl Matoušek)

Bína Litomyšl-1

Binder

Binder EB28
Binder EB29
Binder ASH-25 EB28

Biot

Biot Massia

Birdman

(Birdman Enterprises)

Birdman Project 102 Windsoar

Birmingham Guild

Birò Regina

Birò Regina

Birrlauf

(Benny Birrlauf)

Birrlauf Beny I
Birrlauf Gerspach

Bisser

Bisser – Bulgaria

Bistrama & Puławski

Bistrama & Puławski SL-3 No.8 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925

Blaicher

(Michal Blaicher)

Bland

(Lilian E. Bland – Ireland)

Bland Mayfly

Błażyński

(Alojzy Błażyński)

Błażyński Polon – First Polish Glider Contest August 1923

Bleriot

(Louis Blériot)

Blériot II

Blessing

(Gerhard Blessing / Sportverein Merseburg)

Blessing Rebell
Blessing V-7 Gleiter-Max
Blessing Kolibri-B
Blessing Falter-Scooter

Bley

(Bley Flugzeugbau GmbH, Naumberg)

Bley M-Condor^[9]

Blogoslawienstwo

Blogoslawienstwo

Blohm & Voss

Bock

(John W. Bock)

Bock 1

Boeing

Boeing Steel Truss Glider

Bohatyrew

(Michal Bohatyrew)

Bohatyrew Motyl
Bohatyrew Miś (Miś - Teddy Bear) (No.12) – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925

Bohemia

(HALLER, Oldřich)

Bohemia B.5

Böhm

Böhm Schmankerl foot-launched rigid flying wing glider

Bölkow

Bolton

Bolton 1932

Bonn

Bonn Helge
Bonn I Vulkan
Bonn Schlägel und Eisen

Bonnet

(Pierre Bonnet - Louis Clément - Henri Mignet)

Bonnet double monoplan
Bonnet-Clément BC-1
Bonnet-Clément BC-7
Bonnet-Mignet 1923 glider

Bonnet-Labranche

(Émile Bonnet-Labranche / Ateliers vosgiens Saint Dié)

Bonnet-Labranche 1909 glider

Bonomi

(Aeronautica Bonomi)

Borchn-Anemon

(BORCHN, A. A. & ANEMON, O. K.)

Borchn-Anemon BA-1 Tandem (Борчн- Анмонов БА-1)

Borghese

Borghese 1931 hyydroglider

Borzecki

(Jozef Borzecki)

Borzecki Alto-Stratus
Borzecki Cirrus
Borzecki JB-4 Skowronek
Borzecki Stratus

Bottini

Bottini Mabo

Boulay-Ferrier

(Jacques Boulay & Hubert Ferrier)

Boulay-Ferrier Condor^[10]

Boulay-Menin

(Jacques Boulay & Menin)

Boulay-Menin BM-1

Bourieau-Chapautau

Bourieau-Chapautau glider

Bowers (glider constructor)

Bowers Bantam

Bowlus

(Michael Bowlus)

Bowlus BZ-1

Bowlus-du Pont

(William Hawley Bowlus)

Bowlus M1-PU3
Bowlus 1912 glider
Bowlus Albatross 1 Falcon
Bowlus Albatross 2
Bowlus Albatross Senior
Bowlus Dragontross
Bowlus Flying Wing
Bowlus Super Albatross
Bowlus Super Sailplane
Bowlus 1-S-2100 Senior Albatross
Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross
Bowlus BA-102 Two-place Baby Albatross
Bowlus BS-100 Super Albatross
Bowlus BT-100 Baby Albatross
Bowlus BTS-100 Two-place Baby Albatross
Bowlus G-100 Galloping Gertie
Bowlus-Criz MC-1
Bowlus-Criz MC-1 1/2 scale
Bowlus SP-1 Paper Wing
Bowlus XCG-7
Bowlus XCG-8
Bowlus XCG-16
Bowlus/Nelson Dragonfly
Bowlus XBM-5 -
Bowlus XTG-12 TG-12 - 1942 Bowlus XBM-5,2-seat tandem-seat, mid-wing training glider, XBM-5 = Experimental Bowlus Military, Design number 5
Bowlus TG-12A: unrelated Bowlus-DuPont built M1PU3** 'Utility', 1 impressed ([designer Heath] McDowell, 1-place, Utility, 3rd design [?])

Bramingham

Bramingham 1934 glider

Bräutigam

(Bernhard Bräutigam / Flugzeugbau Braütigam G.m.b.H. Weimar)

Bräutigam Super Orchidee (D-STURM regn.)

Brditschka

(Heinz Brditschka)

Breeze

Breeze Oozle Bird

Bréguet

(Société anonyme des ateliers d'aviation Louis Breguet)

Bremen-Lane

Bremen-Lane glider

Bremer

(Karl Bremer)

Bremer Max
Bremer Strolch
Bremer Motorisiert SG-38

Briegleb

(William G. Briegleb)

Briegleb BG-01 Utility
Briegleb BG-02
Briegleb BG-03
Briegleb BG-04
Briegleb BG-06
Briegleb BG-07
Briegleb BG-08
Briegleb BG-12
Briegleb BG-16
NASA Dryden-Briegleb M2-F1
Briegleb TG-9

Briffaud

(Georges Briffaud)

Briffaud GB.1^[11]
Briffaud GB.2^[11]
Briffaud GB.9
Briffaud GB.80 Aérovoilier^[12]

Bright Star

Bright Star Swift

Bristol

(Bristol Aeronautical Corporation)

Bristol XLRQ

Bristol

(Bristol Aeroplane Company)

Bristol Glider (1910)

Brno

(Brno Technical university)

Brno Technical university ASP-3 – (a.k.a. NSv-3 Cyrillic acronym)

Broburn

(Broburn Sailplanes Ltd, Woodley)

Broburn Wanderlust

Brochet

(Avions Maurice Brochet / Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet)

Brochet Beynes-CAU
Brochet Brocheteau
Brochet MB-10 Ginette
Brochet MB-20

Brochocki

(Stefan Brochocki, Witold Kasper and A. Bodek)

Brochocki BKB-1

Brokker (glider constructor)

Brokker (glider)

Brondel

(Christian Brondel)

Brondel Cavok 10
Brondel CB-12
Brondel CB-15 Crystal
Brondel Hélium
Brondel ST-11
Brondel ST-12
Brondel ST-15

Brookes

(Wilfred Brookes)

Brookes 1919 glider

Brown

(Vincent Brown & STC-GC (Sydney Technical College Gliding Club))

Brown Two Seater
Brown Rebel

Brown

(Leeroy Brown/ Southdown SkySailing Club)

Brown 1931 glider

Bruni

(Giovanni Bruni / Aéroclub Vergiate)

Bruni 3V-1 Eolo

Bryan Aircraft Company

See Schreder.

Brylinski

(Brylinski, Jacques & Wehrle, Jean)

Brylinski JJ-2
Brylinski JJ-3
Brylinski Petrel

BS (glider constructor)

BS 1K

BSV

(Berliner Segelflugvereins - HOHMUTH, Otto)

BSV 1923 glider
BSV Luftikus

Buchanan

(John Buchanan)

Buchanan Ricochet

Bucher Leichtbau

(Heinrich Bucher) see Farner

Budig

(Friedrich Wilhelm Budig)

Budig 1921 glider

Bums

Bums glider
Bünzli

(Bunzli, Henri René / Société de Construction d'Appareils Aériens, Levallois)

Bünzli 1908 glider

Burbulmate

Burbulmate

Busso

Busso San Giorgio

Butterworth-Ypinazar

Butterworth-Ypinazar Primary

Buxton

(G. Mungo Buxton)

Buxton Hjordis
Buxton Hjordis 2
Buxton B-5
Buxton Tailless Tailless

Buxton

(Jay Buxton)

Buxton Roundair – Jay Buxton
Buxton Transporter – Jay Buxton

Bydgoszczy

Bydgoszczy Żabuś

Notes

^ "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b Cynk, Jerzy B. (1971). Polish Aircraft 1893–1939. London: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-370-00085-5.
^ "Bachem Lerche". J2mcl planeurs (in French). 10 September 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905 - 1974. Brașov.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7643-0752-5.
^ Parmentier, Bruno (17 January 2013). "Bellanger-Denhaut, Planeur expérimental par Aviafrance". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ "Bellanger-Denhaut BD-1". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ "The Rise and Demise of a Weapon (1)". Air Enthusiast (1972–03).
^ Schneider, Helmut (1936). Flugzeug-Typenbuch 1936 (in German) (1936 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. p. 17.
^ ^a ^b Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2
^ ^a ^b Gaillard, Pierre (1990). Les Avions Francaisde 1944 a 1964. Paris: Editions EPA. p. 86. ISBN 2-85120-350-9.
^ "Briffaud GB-80 Aérovoilier". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 2 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

External links

[j2mcl-planeurs-1] "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

[Cynk-2] Cynk, Jerzy B. (1971). Polish Aircraft 1893–1939. London: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-370-00085-5.

[j2mcllerche-3] "Bachem Lerche". J2mcl planeurs (in French). 10 September 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2017.

[Gugju-4] Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905 - 1974. Brașov.

[opdycke-5] Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7643-0752-5.

[afbd.1-6] Parmentier, Bruno (17 January 2013). "Bellanger-Denhaut, Planeur expérimental par Aviafrance". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

[j2mclbd1-7] "Bellanger-Denhaut BD-1". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

[ae72-03-8] "The Rise and Demise of a Weapon (1)". Air Enthusiast (1972–03).

[FT1936-9] Schneider, Helmut (1936). Flugzeug-Typenbuch 1936 (in German) (1936 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. p. 17.

[JAWA_82-3-10] Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2

[Gaillard4464p.86-11] Gaillard, Pierre (1990). Les Avions Francaisde 1944 a 1964. Paris: Editions EPA. p. 86. ISBN 2-85120-350-9.

[j2mclgb-80-12] "Briffaud GB-80 Aérovoilier". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 2 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

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