Cambilargiu Goliardia
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| Goliardia | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Type | Competition glider |
| National origin | Italy |
| Manufacturer | Visco Brothers, Somma Lombardo |
| Designer | Emanuele Cambilargiu |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 1924 |
The Cambilargiu Goliardia was an early Italian competition glider which took part in the first Italian international gliding contest, held at Asiago in 1924. Though outclassed by the German contestants' aircraft and their pilots' experience, it was the most successful Italian competitor, encouraging a national interest in the sport.
The Goliardia was one of the first post-World War I Italian competition gliders. It was a canvas-covered, all-wood-framed aircraft with a thick section, cantilever, rectangular plan wing. Its broad but short ailerons were at the tips. A pod and boom design, it had an open cockpit in a central nacelle which stretched from ahead of the wing leading edge to the trailing edge.[1][2]
The tail booms, slender and rectangular in section, carried a cropped, rectangular plan tailplane with rectangular elevator. The similarly shaped fin and rudder, which operated above the elevator, was centrally positioned.[1][2]
The Goliardia landed on long skids aligned with the booms, each mounted on a parallel pair of transverse V-struts. There were a long, curved tailskid on each boom ahead of the tailplane leading edge.[1][2]