THE WORLD'S SAILPLANES / DIE SEGELFLUGZEUGE DER WELT / LES PLANEURS DU MONDE: VOLUME II
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | First edition |
| Condition | Used good (cover slightly worn out, see attached pictures) |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Published date | 1963 |
| Languages | French, English, Deutsch |
| Size | 21.5 x 30 x 2 cm |
| Author | B.S. Shenstone & K.G. Wilkinson |
| Editor | OSTIV (Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale du Vol à Voile) |
Description
This volume is a continuation of the book published in 1958. It does not repeat data on sailplanes published in the first book, although some later marks of formerly published types are described when the changes made are important.
This volume also contains data from several countries not represented in the 1958 book. These additional countries are: Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, India, Japan, Rumania, Russia, South Africa.
The data presented are those sent in by the designers or representative organizations. They were not blindly accepted by the editors and in many cases were returned for revision. Sometimes the revisions never came back to us, which explains some of the gaps in the data. However all the data published are designers' data and therefore only as accurate as the designers. Most of the performance data are calculated, and there is no lack of optimism in this book.
Readers may wonder why some particular sailplanes are missing. We should also like to know. Maybe some designers are lazy and cannot bring themselves to the point of sending in data even when begged to do so. Others apparently feel that the only types worth describing are those that are for export sale. Both categories lost something by thus hiding their lights under bushels.
Even so, we have been able to collect data for more sailplanes than could be printed before the deadline, which indicates that a third volume will probably be published some day.
The format of this second volume is larger, in an effort to answer criticisms that the 3-view drawings in the 1958 volume were too small to be of use. The result is that this volume should be of greater use to designers, but can no longer be carried in a pocket.
We are grateful for the help given us by a number of people, particularly Bruce Carmichael, Hans Zacher and Elemer Racz. But without the loving care with which our data were handled, laid out and translated into print by Alex Stirnemann, this book would never have appeared.
THE EDITORS