CAVKA-Jackdaw-Yugoslav glider

[CAVKA]

My first post here and starting with my favourite glider, Cavka/Jackdaw...
Yugoslav production 1938-1960s.


















One is still flyable, restored in Slovenia,





Yugoslav Aviation Museum sample,





1948 photo,





Source-my own drawings published in YASIG-IPMS YU bulletin and my photo collection.

Regards

CAVKA

[Texier Serge]

Welcome, Cavka,

Thank's for this nice and complete documentation.

Do you prepare a scale model ?

what will be the range of the scale reduction ?

Nice job.

[Walter]

Hello Cavka,

...welcome here at Retroplane...

Thank you for this interesting drawings and pics
I`m looking forward to see more gliders

M.Simons wrote in his books that gliding was very popular during the 50´s in Yugoslavia.

Regards
Walter

[CAVKA]

Thanx,

Yes, i considering build of the 1:6 scale RC model .

M.Simons is right, gliding is quite polular in1950s/1960s here and lot of domestic gliders were built in large quantities as well some licence built ones, like starting withGB II, Weihe, Kranich , and later ,finishing with Std Cirrus/Cirrus 17/DG 100/DG 300.

Gliding is popularised and financed through National Aero Club and the result is high number of sailplane pilots schooled (including myself, since 1982).

RGDS
Cavka

[VincentB]

hello CAVKA, welcome on the forum
very original sailplane
we hope that we will follow your building on the forum

[fceed]

Hello CAVKA,

Very interesting gliders have been designed in Yougoslavia in the fifties like for example Kosava, Orao, Meteor... that can be very original subjects for scale model. But these gliders aren't well known in West Europe. Do you have some documentation about these gliders ?

Regards

[CAVKA]

Hi
Will do some new topics related to Yugoslav sailplanes 1950s/1960s,
stay tuned...
RGDS
Cavka

[VincentB]

Mise à jour du 1er message de CAVKA avec les 3 vues à télécharger en plus haute résolution

[CAVKA]

Thanx VincentB

[Jose Navarrete]

I think the Cavka was the yugoslavian version of the polish WWS1-Salamandra, wasn't it? At least, it has the same configuration. Later, the Salamandra also inspired the finnish Pik-5

I have some other pictures of it:




















Nice glider!

[CAVKA]

Yes, was probably inspired by Salamandra fuselage configuration, with tail boom implemented instead the two part aft fuselage configuration.
But its completely new construction.

Also, two more sailplanes were produced using Cavka main wings and tailplane.

Munja(Lightning), single seater, with new fuselage, just prototype built. Wings and tailplane retained from Cavka.





Roda (Stork), two seater, metal (or wooden) fuselage, Wings and tailplane retained from Cavka. Built in series.





RGDS
CAVKA

[Texier Serge]

ça me plait bien tout ça

I like that

Continue to give us documents coming from your country, thank's

[ClaudeL]

Bonjour,
Quelques liens où il est question de planeurs yougoslaves, et en particulier du Cavka et du Roda :

* Yougoslav aeronautical Museum, aéroport de Belgrade :
http://members.tripod.com/YUModelClub/batajnica_air_show/yugoslav_aeronautical_museum.htm
où sont exposés : Cavka, Roda, Jastreb, Orao, Kosava, Macka, Vrabac

* Aeroklub Sarajevo
page "Ak postojna Oldtimers"
http://www.aeroklub-sarajevo.ba/IstorijaJedrilica/AK%20Postojna/Oldtimers.htm
Avec une belle série sur le Cavka YU-2183 (restauré)
Roda
Macka S5 1112 (petit planeur de voltige)
Vrabac
Jastreb
Trener S5 1111
Olimpija (à vérifier) ...

* Hellenic soaring archives
page "photos of the 50ies" entre autre
http://www.paragliding.gr/gliding/
Diverses photos de planeurs yougoslaves utilisés en Grèce.
Peut-être ce n'était pas le meilleur endroit pour mettre ces liens ?

Claude