Does anybody know the name, type and location of the first fiberglass
 air plane to fly?

 Paul Lamar

 The first moldless composite was the KR-1.
   Wings and tailfeathers, Cowl and turtledeck, Virg


The Rand Robinson KR-1 is a single-seat, single-engine sport aircraft
designed in the United States in the early 1970s. The structural parts of
the KR1 were/are/is wood.

It was not fiberglass. It was Dynel. I have no idea what the base material
of Dynel is but it was not fiberglass. Probably a thermo plastic of some
sort.

It was not significantly different than covering a plywood aircraft with
canvas.
That was what Dynel was intended for.


Paul Lamar


If gliders, or sail planes count, the Phoenix flew in the late fifties. it
was built using fiber glass with polyester. The airfoil was from Dr.Eppler
who also supervised the building of it. Performance was excellent and flying
characteristics where terrible. I witnessed some of the construction work,
and later we had one in our soaring club. I personally never got a chance to
fly it.

Richard Sohn
N2071U