List of gliders (L)

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This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available)[1] Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.

La Mouette

(Hang gliders - Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France)

L.A.D.

(Light Aircraft Development Co.)

Laffont-Mouillard-Cousin

Lagasse

(Jean-René Lagasse)

Laister

( Jack W. Laister / Laister-Kauffmann)

LAK

(LAK – Lietuviška Aviacinė Konstrukcija / (some production by ESAG – Eksperimentine Sportines Aviacijos Gamykla)

Lampich

(Ãrpád Lampich / Gyõr Soaring Club, Gyõr)

Lamson

(Phil Lamson)

Lamson

(Robert Lamson)

Landmann

(Hermann Landmann – Institut für Flugzeugkonstruktion der Technischen Hochschule Dresden)

Landes-Derouin

(Landes Frères & Derouin - Robert Landes, Théo Landes and Derouin / Louis Bréguet)

Lange

Langhammer

(Egon Scheibe / Bitz-Linner-Zoller)

Langley

(Ernest Langley)

Larson

Latimer-Needham

(C. H. Latimer-Needham / R.F.D. Co, Guilford)

Latvian Aero Club Olaine

Laubenthal

(Paul Laubenthal)

Lauk

(Peep Lauk – Estonia)

Launics

(Fricis Launics / 48th Glider Aviator Group, Krustpils (LU))

Lawrence

(L.W. Lawrence)

Lazarov

(Tzvetan Lazarov / DAR (Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnica) - Bozurishte, Bulgaria)

LCF

(Luftsport-Club Friedrichshafen)

le Bris

(Jean-Marie le Bris)

Lee-Richards

(Cedric Lee & G. Tilghman Richards / annular wing patent from G.J.A. Kitchen, Williband Franz Zelger and Isaac Henry Storey)

Leeming

(John Fishwick LEEMING, Clement WOOD & Tom PRINCE)

Leffler-MacFarlane

(Al Leffler, Walt MacFarlane, Bill Meyer)

Lefort

(Lucien Lefort)

Leonard

(Bob Leonard)

Leonard

(Whitmar Leonard / Leonard Motorless Aircraft, 32 Crescent Street, N.w., Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Leroy

(G. Leroy (Professeur Technique à l'École Professionelle d'Évreux)/ Aéroc-Club de l'Eure)

Lesh-Wulpi

(Lawrence J. Lesh & James M. Wulpi)

Letov

Let Kunovice

LETOV

(LETOV - Yugoslavia)

Leyat

(Marcel Leyat / Mr Audra / Association Française Aérienne)

LFG

(G. Baatz / Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft, Stralsund)

LIBIS

(Letalski Institut "Branko Ivanus" Slovenia)

Lightwing

(Lightwing Research / John M. Lee)

Lilienthal

(Otto Lilienthal)

Lindner

(Fiberglas-Technik Rudolf Lindner)

Lippisch

(Alexander Lippisch)

Liwentaal

(Alexandre Liwentaal)

LO

(LO-Fluggerätebau)

Loessl (Eugen)

(Eugen von Loessl - killed on the Wasserkuppe on 9 August 1920 flying the E.v.L.1)

Loessl (Ernst)

(Ernst von Loessl - cousin of Eugen von Loessl)

Lohner

(Lohner Flugzeugbau)

Loitron-Delage

(Loitron & Delage)

Lombarda

(Aeronautica Lombarda / Camillo Silva)

Lommatzsch

(VEB Apparatebau Lommarzsch, Raubaaerstr. 4, Lommatzsch/Sa. (DDR))

L.O.P.P.

(L.O.P.P. – Liga Obrony Powietrznej i Przeciwgazowej – League of Air and Anti-gas Defence / Icarus)

Loravia

Lössl

(Ernst von Lössl)

Lowe-Wylde

(Charles H. Lowe-Wylde)

Loyko Tandem L-1

(LOYKO & Soc. Aviakim (USSR))

Lucas

(Émile Lucas / Avions Émile Lucas)

Luków School

Lunds Tekniske

Lünger-Kohler

(Hans Lünger & Josef Kohler)

Lush

(Vladimir S. Lush)

Lüty

(Paul Lüty / Sportflugzeugbau, Hülserstrasse 398, Krefeld)

Lutz

(Werner Lutz)

LWL

(Lwowskie Warsztaty Lotnicze – Lwów Aviation Workshops)

Lwowskich Uczniów

(Kazimierz Baszniak, Wlodzimierz Siemiuła & Aleksander Sokalski)

Lyushin Maori

(S. N. Lyushin)

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