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Welcome to Logistic Gliders Inc.
Logistic Gliders Inc. was founded in 2011 to develop innovations in aerial resupply for the U.S. military. Our goal was to identify less expensive means of aviation logistic support. We are currently working on two (2) different designs for a low-cost, disposable, single-use glider.
Logistic Gliders Inc. Flight Test Highlights
Progress to date
Logistic Gliders has completed twenty (20) prototype glider flight tests at 100% scale as of 12 November 2020. Gliders are single use, so each test requires a new glider.
- 2 gliders were deployed from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- 8 gliders were deployed from a Shorts SC-7 Skyvan
- 10 gliders were deployed from a helicopter sling load (1 from Hiller CJ-5, 2 from Bell 206, 5 from Hughes MD-500D, and 2 from Sikorsky S-58T)
- 8 gliders were flown via radio control
- 12 gliders were flown autonomously
- Total full-scale glider flight time of 1 hour, 40 minutes, & 11 seconds
- Completed 53 flight tests with 25% scale model
- Completed 37 flight tests with avionics test UAV
- Flight tested 6 different landing parachutes at full-scale
- First 25% scale model flight test occurred on 3 September 2011
- First 100% scale prototype flight test was on 27 March 2012
- Latest 100% scale prototype flight test (20th) was on 12 November 2020
- Latest 25% scale model flight test was on 27 March 2021