Gluhareff S-22 & Adaridi SK24 update!

Well, this is Finnish aviation history news.

My friend from Kuopio commented in last aerotow event that ‘You, Tuomas have this interest in old planes, I have found an old book in my old relatives cupboard which might be of interest’… It turned out that his relative was some sort of inventor and he had an authentic book from 1924 with name ‘Moottorittomat Lentokoneet ja heikkomoottorilentokoneet’ by B. Adaridi, 66 pages. This is extremely rare book in which mr. Boris Adaridi explains flying  with ‘Motorless aeroplanes and Avionettes’. AND it has the same plan of every mans glider as in Suomen Kuvalehti 1924.

Which I have featured in my Gluhareff S-22-page. You might remeber that I have built S-22 and the plans are freely downloadable at my site, check previous link.

The difference is that this version is much cleaner and it has much greater detail. Also, reading book I get much more detailed information of brothers Gluhareff flying attempts along. Some snippets of information below.

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Remember this picture. It shows S-22 and other glider of their design, M-3. I have often thought of this picture looks somewhat strange. That M-3 looks a bit odd. Well, it turns out that the explanation is written in text. It says ‘In picture (35.) one can see how badly plane has been damaged in one particular flight.’. Well, it explains deformed plane…

 

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Then another pic of S-22 from above. I have not seen this picture  ever before.

 

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And finally, for me never before seen pic of ridge brothers Gluhareff used for flying attempts.

All this is pretty exiting and adds to this story of three strange men in Finnish woods trying to make soaring attempts. And eventually succeeding.  B. Adaridi then went on to design Adaridi AD3 and then moved to France. Brothers Gluhareff moved to US. Most of this book is around designing light planes, just like Adaridi AD3.

Then to SK-24. If you have read through the original story (bottom of page here) and downloaded original scans you might want to download new, much cleaner scans. Previews below, for full resolution scans press SK24-pages-1-3-02-bw (14mb zip file).

Page 1. 3-view

Page 1. 3-view

Page 2. Details

Page 2. Details

Page 3. Parts.

Page 3. Parts.

An article of Gluhareff S-22 has been published in Feeniks-magazine

I wrote an short article of Gluhareff S-22 to Finnish magazine called Feeniks. It is distributed to all good quality newstands here and it is also an magazine for Finnish Aviation Museum Socitety members. I think that the editors of magazine did great job on getting stuff published, also they added an historical summary of brothers Gluhareff. And an abbreviated version done in english :).

I have permission to publish article in our website after 1.1.2014 so if you want to read that piece before that pls. direct yourself to nearest newstand and inquire Feeniks-magazine. You can also use http://www.imy.fi/5 or send query from info@imy.fi.

I strongly advise (at least everyone in Finland) to join Aviation Museum Socitety (IMY). It is great way to support good things in life. And it is rather economical also.

Gluhareff S-22

Just an brief note, I have started build of S-22. For build log see here : http://www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3920