Schultz Nucleon
{{Short description|American glider}}
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The Schultz Nucleon is an American high-wing strut-braced, single-seat glider that was designed and constructed by Arthur B. Schultz.{{Cite web|url = http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/PlaneDetails.cfm?PlaneID=248|title = Nucleon Schultz|accessdate = 25 June 2011|last = Activate Media|year = 2006|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120825220633/http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/PlaneDetails.cfm?PlaneID=248|archivedate = 25 August 2012}}Said, Bob: 1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine, page 63, Soaring Society of America November 1983. USPS 499-920
Design and development
The Nucleon was built by Schultz in 1954 and even though the wing was strut-braced the aircraft introduced some innovative construction techniques. The wing was carved from Styrofoam around its spar and then covered in fiberglass for a skin. The wing uses a NACA 65-415 airfoil, has full-span flaps and drooping ailerons, and is braced with a single faired strut. The strut-braced tailplane folds so that the aircraft can be loaded for ground transportation on a trailer.{{Cite web|url = http://www.ae.illinois.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html|title = The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage|accessdate = 25 June 2011|last = Lednicer|first = David|authorlink = |year = 2010|archive-date = April 20, 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100420012244/http://www.ae.illinois.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html|url-status = dead}}
Only one Nucleon was built and it is registered in the Experimental - amateur-built category.{{Cite web|url = http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=7924A|title = Make / Model Inquiry Results N7924A|accessdate = 25 June 2011|last = Federal Aviation Administration|authorlink = |date=June 2011}}
Operational history
The aircraft was flown in the 1956 US Nationals and completed several {{convert|200|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} cross country flights.
In June 2011, 57 years after the aircraft was built, it was still on the US Federal Aviation Administration registry, listed as being subject to a sale.
Specifications (Nucleon)
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See also
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External links
- [http://soaringweb.org/Soaring_Index/1955/1955Jan-Feb_full.jpg The Nucleon on the cover of Soaring magazine, Jan/Feb 1953]
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