Cornelius XFG-1
The Cornelius XFG -1 was an American military fuel glider, which was developed by George Cornelius in the 1940s and built in the Cornelius Aircraft Company in Glendale, California. The FG in his name stood for Fuel Glider and its role is only to transport fuel was.
History
The XFG - 1 was developed under the project code MX -416 and an aerodynamically unusual aircraft and also for an unusual military task was determined. Unlike other load gliders such as the Waco CG-4, the fuel transport glider was by modern bomber with an airspeed ( engl. true airspeed, TAS ) to be towed 250 miles per hour.
Description
The XFG -1 is a high-wing monoplane, whose wings were mounted far back on the fuselage end, and had a fixed tricycle landing gear sprung. The cell had a closed conventional single seat cockpit. The flying wing had two fuselage tanks with a capacity of 2,800 liters. The XFG -1 could carry both jet fuel to temporary airfields as well as motor fuel for military vehicles of the ground forces.
Two prototypes were built on the basis of Cornelius Mallard flying wing and 32 flights were conducted in 1944 and 1945. The peculiarity of the swept wing was the adjustment of the sweep angle, which only before the flight on the ground was possible, however. There were two variants of the wing setting with 3 ˚ and 7 ˚ forward sweep. On the left side of the fuselage, a boom was fitted with a propeller - generator on-board electronics supplied by the wind power. The standard tools of XFG -1 were magnetic compass, altimeter, airspeed indicator, vertical speed, ball dragonfly and a radio.
Specifications
- Crew: 1 pilot
- Length: 8.92 m
- Wingspan: 16.46 m