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Schultz ABC (USAAC TG-16)
Specifications
- Span 14.78 m./ 48.5 ft
- Area 16.26 sq. m. / 175 sq.ft.
- Aspect ratio 13.2
- Airfoil NACA 6212
- Empty weight 136 kg. / 300 lb.
- Payload 77 kg. / 170 lb.
- Gross weight 213 kg. / 470 lb.
- Wing loading 13.10 kg. / sq. m. / 2.69 lb. / sq. ft.
- Structure Steel tube fuselage and tail, two-spar two-strut wood wing, all fabric coverd.
Performance
- L/D max. 18
- Min. sink 0.85 m/s / 2.8 fps / 1.66 kt
Other
- Country of origin USA
- Designer Art Schultz
- No. of seats 1
- No. built at least 4
- No. in the U.S. 1
The ABC, a development of the simpler, shorter span Midwest MU-1 designed three years earlier, won the 1937
Eaton design competition. The result was due largely to its sound esign and ease of construction, while the much
higher performing Ross-Stephens RS-1 Zanonia placed second due to complicated construction and emphasis on ground
tow capability. The first all-metal Schweizer sailplane, the SGU-1-6, was third. The ABC was offered in plan form
and a few were built prior to World War II. After the outbreak of war, one was used as the TG-16 at the USAAC glider
training school in Mobile, Alabama.
Schultz Nucleon
Specifications
- Span 14.0 m./ 46.0 ft
- Area 12.17 sq. m. / 131 sq.ft.
- Aspect ratio 16
- Airfoil NACA 65(2)-415
- Empty weight 156 kg. / 345 lb.
- Payload 86 kg. / 190 lb.
- Gross weight 242 kg. / 535 lb.
- Wing loading 19.88 kg. / sq. m. / 4.1 lb. / sq. ft.
- Structure 1-strut braced all-wood wings, steel-tube/ fabric wings and braced tail.
Performance
- L/D max. 22 76 kph / 41 kt / 47 mph
- Min. sink 1.00 m/s / 3.3 fps / 1.96 kt
- 69 kph / 37 kt / 43 mph
Other
- Country of origin USA
- Designer Art Schultz
- No. of seats 1
- No. built 1
- No. in the U.S. 1
The Nucleon, which first flew in 1954, has a wing bult of Styrofoam around a spar and convered with a fiberglass
shell. To save weight, struts were used with cuffs at both ends. It has full span flaps, with drooping ailerons,
and a horizontal tail which folds up for trailing.
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