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Description
| Manufacturer: | Laister-Kauffman | |
| Base model: | CG-10 | |
| Designation: | XCG-10 | |
| Version: | A | |
| Nickname: | Trojan Horse | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1941-1947 | |
| Basic role: | Transport Glider | |
| Status: | Experimental | |
Specifications
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Known serial numbers
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| albert pepper saint louis, MO | This is off topic but there is a house near windsor baptist church in imperial I would love to buy. Looking for the owner. My phone number is 314-803-9404 If this post is not welcome please delete and I apologize for the intrusion. thank you..!! 11/25/2010 @ 07:22 [ref: 33363] |
| Mike Dierker St. Charles, MO | My father worked on the Trojan Horse glider during the World War II at the St. Louis plant. The only item I have is a pin that was awarded or given to him for his work at the company. My father passed away early in my childhood and I was not able to talk with him about his work the Trojan Horse glider. 02/24/2010 @ 08:53 [ref: 25778] |
| Linda Engelhardt , MO | My dad helped design the CG-10 and was present for it's first flight in Dayton,Ohio. I've looked everywhere for a model to give him for his upcoming 86th birthday. Are there any out there? 11/25/2009 @ 09:48 [ref: 25336] |
| Keith H. Thoms , VA | I am a huge fan of the CG-10A.
Its 2,935 drawings are available on six microfilm rolls from Smithsonian Archives as DM-0000465 "Inactive Contractor's Engineering Drawings & Data (Laister-Kauffmann)" EDM 462c, December 1954. It cost about $180 in copying fees. Current article has a summary of the CG-10A in our Joint Chief of Staff's magazine: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/editions/i48/29.pdf Some simple concept exploration using the CG-10A as a baseline model, including its snatch pickup measurements: http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=A468743 Keep checking stinet.dtic.mil for another shortly. My sincerest apologies, J. Kauffmann Murray and family, on the misspelling of the Kauffmann name in these documents. A good history of the CG-10A is covered in “Silent Ones: WWII Invasion Glider Test and Experiment”, 2001, by Charles L. Day. J. Kauffmann Murray: I would love to scan in or otherwise collect electronic copies of your L-K photos. Charles is interested and qualified to help your identification. To avoid posting contact information to any of these long-lived public forums, I ask you to setup an account and then reach us through our posts: http://www.armyairforces.com/forum/loginflat.asp You'll have to click on the Email button after lg_glidr or GLIDERMAN1: http://www.armyairforces.com/forum/m_143262/tm.htm We are looking forward to hearing from you. 02/23/2008 @ 03:59 [ref: 19746] |
| J. Kauffmann Murray St. Louis, MO | A small point - but Kauffmann is not spelled correctly on this site. Also- I have many pictures that my dad had from Laister-Kauffmann and I hope to post them someday to help identify who and what they show. 02/09/2008 @ 19:47 [ref: 19627] |
| C Plescia , OR | I first learned of the CG-10 reading a 1993 edition of the Oregon Vets News. I was astonished to see what I thought was a C-130 Glider!
Clearly Laister was ahead of his time. I found a video clip from a movie shot on a test flight. The Test pilot raved about it's handling. I have been looking for construction plans for building a CG-10. Anyone who could help me in locating plans for the full size construction of a CG-10 would be appreciated. 08/08/2007 @ 06:51 [ref: 17518] |
| John R. Mason , CA | Please excuse my repetition of notes on 12-08-05. I kept getting a note saying that the time limit had expired. So I kept trying again. It appears that it only referred to returning to the previous thing that I had looked at. Sorry. 12/12/2005 @ 01:02 [ref: 11955] |
| John R. Mason Camarillo, CA | I worked on the design of the Laister-Kauffman gliders. A not from a Jim Moffett indicates that the noses of the XCG-10 and the XCG10-A were the same. No, the -10 had nose loading cargo doors under the cockpit. The -10A eliminated this feature. It retained aft clamshell cargo loading doors under the tail boom. The -10A had a much larger fuselage, and was a completely new design. 12/08/2005 @ 23:44 [ref: 11928] |
| John R. Mason Camarillo, CA | I worked on the design of the Laister-Kauffman gliders. A not from a Jim Moffett indicates that the noses of the XCG-10 and the XCG10-A were the same. No, the -10 thd nose loading cargo doors under the cockpit. The -10A eliminated this feature. It retained aft clamshell cargo loading doors under the tail boom. 12/08/2005 @ 23:40 [ref: 11927] |
| John R. Mason Camarillo, CA | I worked on the design of the Laister-Kauffman gliders. A not from a Jim Moffett indicates that the noses of the Xcg-10 and the Xcg10-A were the same. No, the -10 thd nose loading cargo doors under the cockpit. The -10A eliminated this feature. It retained aft clamshell cargo loading doors under the tail boom. 12/08/2005 @ 23:38 [ref: 11926] |
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