Waco CG-13
CG-13 | |
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The XCG-13 | |
Role | Transport Glider |
Designer | Waco Aircraft Company |
First flight | 1943 |
Introduction | 1945 |
Retired | 1945 |
Primary users | RAF
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Produced | 1945 |
Number built | 135 |
The Waco CG-13 was an American military transport
Design and development
Wright Field Glider Branch realized a need for a glider larger than the CG-4A and requested designs. The response by several companies produced designs for five larger gliders. One of these designs was the XCG-13 by Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio.
The XCG-13 contract was for a 30-place design with an 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) useful load capacity to fly 174 mph (280 km/h) at an altitude of 12,000 feet (3,700 m) altitude. Flight testing of the prototype was performed at
Operational history
The CG-13A glider maximum useful load was 10,200 lb (4,600 kg). The 79 mph (127 km/h) stall speed was 19 mph higher than specified. One CG-13A was flown in combat in the Aparri Mission in the Philippines. The CG-13A gliders were not flown in combat in Europe but were used as transports in England and France.
Specifications (CG-13A)
![3-view line drawing of the Waco CG-13A](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Waco_CG-13A_3-view_line_drawing.png/220px-Waco_CG-13A_3-view_line_drawing.png)
Data from The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II,[2] Fighting Gliders of World War II[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2 pilots
- Capacity: 1x 1-ton 6 x 6 truck; 30 or 40 troops, equipped.
- Length: 54 ft 4 in (16.56 m)
- Wingspan: 85 ft 8 in (26.11 m)
- Height: 20 ft 3 in (6.17 m)
- Wing area: 873 sq ft (81.1 m2)
- Aspect ratio: 8.41
- Airfoil: NACA 43012[4]
- Empty weight: 8,700 lb (3,946 kg)
- Gross weight: 18,900 lb (8,573 kg)
Performance
- Stall speed: 79 mph (127 km/h, 69 kn) Flaps down
- 83 mph (72 kn; 134 km/h) Flaps up
- Towing speed: 135 mph (117 kn; 217 km/h)
- Never exceed speed: 195 mph (314 km/h, 169 kn)
- 150 mph (130 kn; 241 km/h) with flaps down
- Wing loading: 21.65 lb/sq ft (105.7 kg/m2)
See also
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
- Airspeed Horsa
- DFS 230
- General Aircraft Hamilcar
- General Aircraft Hotspur
- Gotha Go 242
- Schweizer cargo glider designs
- Slingsby Hengist
Related lists
Operators
- Royal Air Force
- Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment - two CG-13As for trials in 1945.
References
- ^ "Largest Glider." Popular Science, March 1944, p. 66, bottom of page.
- ^ Mondey 1996, p. 235
- ISBN 978-0-312-28927-0.
- ^ Lednicer, David. "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". m-selig.ae.illinois.edu. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- Mondey, David, The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II. London: Chancellor, 1996. I185152 706 0.SBN
- Silent Ones WWII Invasion Glider Test and Experiment Clinton County Army Air Field Wilmington Ohio
External links
- Army Glider Can Carry A Fully Loaded Truck August 1944 article on CG-4A