How to Build a Super Glider

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on July 1, 1985
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This little homemade aircraft is easy to make and good for hours of fun!
This little homemade aircraft is easy to make and good for hours of fun!
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Diagram of the glider's various sections and construction.
Diagram of the glider's various sections and construction.

Learn how to build a super glider to prove the movement of invisible waves of air and have a good time to boot! (See the super glider diagram in the image gallery.)

How to Build a Super Glider

Bob Kornegay, who’s in charge of MOTHER’s Self-Reliant Homestead project, designed this aircraft years ago when he was a youngster competing in glider contests.

It’s a high-performance glider capable of traveling several hundred yards under the right conditions. It can provide you with hours of fun, as well as insights into the way air currents move, and you can build it for just a few dollars.

SUPER GLIDER CONSTRUCTION

Follow the dimensions shown on the grid very closely; this project requires precise work if the aircraft is to fly well. Even a few degrees of deviation in the position of the vertical stabilizer, for example, will send it into a spiral. The construction sequence is as follows:

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