URMV-3 IS-2

IS-2
Role Sailplane
National origin Romania
Manufacturer URMV-3[1]
Designer Iosif Şilimon[1]
First flight 14 August 1950 [1]




Not to be confused with the IS-2 Mucha from Instytut Szybownictwa in Poland.

The IS-2 was an intermediate training glider designed by Iosif Şilimon and built in Romania in the 1950s at the URMV-3 (Rom: Uzinele de Reparatii Material Volant-3 - Glider repair and manufacture factory) factory at Braşov.[1]

Design and development

The IS-2 was designed as an intermediate training glider. Construction was largely of wood with fabric and plywood skinning, similar o the Grunau Baby pre-war German glider.[1] Very little is known of the IS-2s development or operational history. Of conventional configuration with high-set cantilever wings and cruciform tail-unit, the IS-2 was also flown with an increased span wing.[2]

Specifications (IS-2)

Data from The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge der Welt:Les Planeurs du Monde Volume II[2]

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
Related lists

List of gliders

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Gudju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu (1974). Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905-1974. Bucharest.
  2. 1 2 Shenstone, B.S.; K.G. Wilkinson (1963). The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge der Welt:Les Planeurs du Monde Volume II (in English, French, and German) (1st ed.). Zurich: Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale du Vol a Voile (OSTIV) and Schweizer Aero-Revue. pp. 178–179.

References

  • Shenstone, B.S.; K.G. Wilkinson (1963). The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge der Welt:Les Planeurs du Monde Volume II (in English, French, and German) (1st ed.). Zurich: Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale du Vol a Voile (OSTIV) and Schweizer Aero-Revue. pp. 178–179. 
  • Gudju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu (1974). Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905-1974. Bucharest. 
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