Prototype Carbon Dragon built by Jim Maupin
Owned by Gary Osoba, Kansas
This photo was shot by S. Steve Adkins through the moon roof of Gary Osoba's tow vehicle.
Steve had just finished towing Gary to a height of about 300 feet.
Location: Harris Hill just outside Elmira, New York
To perform the tow, we used 750 feet of line.
The weak link was two strands of heavy cord (almost string).
No wing runner required, an arm out the side can level the wings!
The tow vehicle is driven down the 1000 foot paved runway ...
and off into the grass and down the hill turning and stopping just before the drop off.
Two new items added Friday, 3 February 2012:
Carbon Dragon - polar diagram and velocity diagram (flight envelope)
and
Gary Osoba - one page test flight
TehachapiPermission to use this photo from the Maupin family.
Note: Plans are no longer available. Best sources are ebay, Ultralight Soaring and Esoaring.com
Also, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carbondragonbuildersandpilots/ ... This site is for builders and pilots to share info about the Carbon Dragon
Note:
I do not have Carbon Dragon plans
I am no longer building a Carbon Dragon
I lacked the skill to redesign and build a Carbon Dragon to fly at my weight
I am insanely jealous of people who fly microlift gliders ... see my entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlift
(Note: This entry was updated by Gary Osoba, the owner of Jim Maupin's prototype Carbon Dragon)
This website is now dormant, but I am going to do a few updates in early 2009
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| 09-27-2005: Jonathoan
Pitt just sent me a few photos demonstrating his excellent quality of
worksmanship. Jonathan reports that Yasushi Akahori in Japan has
finished his wings and is now starting on the pod and is up against Jim’s
famous pod building instructions, “Building the pilot pod seems to be pretty
self-explanatory.” Click on the photo to see some increcible detail (best viewed by downloading and viewing in a view or image software which allows zooming in and shifting across the image. Other photos: Photo1 Photo2 Sketch1 Sketch2  |
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| Hi Steve,
Just thought I'd let you know that I've now completed the first UK homebuilt Carbon Dragon. Waiting on the Uk weather for the first test flight. Final finished weight 159 pounds. Ozzie Haynes, E
Sussex.
BN8 Steve Recently I have had tremendous support and generosity from Ozzie Haynes who I believe is the 1st British / UK builder. Link to huge photos submitted by Alan Sayers Regards, Alan Sayers
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Hard water sailing ... Iceboating
Something to do in the
winter
"Build in the summer ...
Sail in
the winter"
Jim Woods
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| Listing
of Carbon Dragons
Flying and Under Construction Detailed
comparison:
Carbon Dragon, History Links New Website: www.carbondragon.ch by Stéphane Abbet |
... then select "Save target as" Purpose: This website was created to gather and share information about building and flying the Carbon Dragon sailplane. This includes derivations from the original prototype. Jim Maupin always stated that his goal was for the design to lead to refinements and improvements. Introduction: The Carbon Dragon
is an ultralight,
high performance
glider. This glider was conceived by Jim Maupin who also
designed
the famous Woodstock sailplane and the Windrose motorglider. Jim
received encouragement from Irv Culver, who promised to "run
the
numbers". As a result, Jim Maupin with an assist from
co-designer
Irv Culver, produced an exciting sailplane for 473 plan sets have
been sold. The detailed plans were drawn by Bill Baker
whom Maupin described as, "... a fellow home builder and
consummate
draftsman." Many people, who have flown the prototype, have
commented
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