Short SB.1
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short-sb-1-207-11556479
title:
Short SB.1
text:
The Short SB.1 was a British tailless glider designed by David Keith-Lucas and Professor Geoffrey T.R. Hill. Built by Shorts as a private research venture to test the concept of the aero-isoclinic wing, it was the first aircraft to incorporate this feature. It was in effect a one-third scale glider version of Keith-Lucas' ambitious preliminary design P.D.1, intended to meet the Air Ministry's specification B.35/46, which was the basis for the Avro Vulcan, the Handley-Page Victor and the Vickers
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_SB.1
date created:
2006-12-16T00:31:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:03:45Z
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13
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