Picture from the Wolds gliding club

 

 

 

 

 
Tailplane

This is the horisontal wing at the back of the aircraft that helps keep the gilder pointed forward. On the back of the glider is a movable flap which is connected to the controle column and alters the pitch of the glider.

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Elivator

The flap on the horizontal part of the tail of a glider which is moveable by the pilot to control the glider in pitch.


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Rudder

 

The part vertical flap at the back of the tailplane which controles the direction along with the ailerons.

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Tailwheel

A small wheel at the back of the glider to stop the tail from dragging along the ground. Offten gliders have detachable wheels (called tail dollies) which swivel to make the glider easer to move around. These are removed before the glider flyes.

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Lifting Handle

At the back of the tail there is oftern a lifting handle to help manover gliders around. It would not be a good idear to move the glider using any part of the tail that was not designed for the perpouse.

 

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Wing Root

The part of the wing that joins onto the glider. Oftern the wings can be taken off the glider (to enable retives from land outs or for storage)

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Wing

Wing

 

The flying serfices

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The Nose

The front of the aircraft is called the nose. In some gliders there is a small tube that is connected to the air speed indicator. In other gliders there is a attachment point for towing the glider.

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The Cockpit

The place where the pilot sits. In most modern gliders the cockpit is enclosed by a plastic canopy, however in the earlyer gliders the cockpit was open to the elements.

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The Airbrakes

The airbrakes are two paddles that normaly are foldered away in the wing. When coming to land (or requiring to desend quickly) a pilot can pull a lever in the cockpit which deployes the airbrakes. Rather than slow the aircraft down they spoil the way the wing work enabling the aircraft pilot to increase the rate of decent for any given speed. At any time the pilot can put the brakes back in.

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The Fin

The vertical part of the tailplain.

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Aileron

There are a pair of flaps on the trailing edge of the wings. When the pilot wants the glider to role to the right he pushes his stick to the right this moves both ailerons together (in this case the right aileron would go up to make the wing drop and the left would go down to make the right wing go up.

 

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