Slingsby T45 Shallow
Scale 1/3
Scale: 1/3
Span: 4,35 Mtr
Weight: 7-9 Kgs
Five functions: Elevator, Rudder, Aileron, Airbrake and tow release.
Includes printed plan
Canopy avaiable
The Slingsby Swallow was a wooden-framed aircraft, covered in a mixture of plywood and fabric. Its high mounted, cantilever, straight-tapered and square-tipped wing had 3.3° dihedral.
It was Gaboon plywood-skinned and built around a single spruce spar, with a leading-edge torsion box. Its unbalanced ailerons were fabric covered; there were no flaps but dive brakes could be extended in pairs above and below the wings.
The prototype had a 12 m span wing, but all production aircraft had their performance enhanced by an extension to 13.05 m.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1 pilot
Crew: 1
Length: 23 ft 1 in 7.04 m
Wingspan: 13.05 m
Height: 1.58 m
Wing area: 13.55 m2
Airfoil: NACA 633-618 at root, NACA 4412 (mod.) at tip
Empty weight: 193 kg
Max takeoff weight: 318 kg