The bench
Draw it by number
Span, chord, sweep, tail arm, ballast. Four layouts to work in, and every value has a slider and a field for the exact figure.
WingWright
Design · Trim · Fly
A drafting bench for paper, balsa & foam gliders
Draw the wing by number. Watch the margin move. Fly it before you cut.
Span, chord, sweep, tail arm, ballast — every value has a slider and a field for the exact figure. Eighteen calculated numbers update while you drag, a verdict badge tells you whether that balance point flies or fights you, and a Runge-Kutta simulator replays the whole glide with the numbers behind it.
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Free · iPhone
18 live figures
4 layouts
5 airfoils
8 bench presets
15 lessons
16 badges
Design · Trim · Fly
From a sheet of paper to a logged flight
The bench works the way a real one does: draw, read the figures, throw, write it down. Four tabs, one loop.
The readout
Watch the margin move
Eighteen calculated figures update while you drag. The verdict badge tells you whether that balance point flies or fights you.
The throw
Fly it before you cut
A Runge-Kutta simulator takes your airframe, your launch angle and the wind, then replays the whole glide with the numbers behind it.
The log
Keep every throw
Flights, personal bests, build briefs and fifteen lessons that use your own airframe's figures as the example.
Static margin as a share of the mean aerodynamic chord. Sport is where a thrown glider wants to sit — quick to respond, but it settles on its own.
What's on the bench
Real aerodynamics, sized for a hand launch
The same numbers a sailplane designer works with — neutral point, tail volume, glide polar — applied to things you fold, cut and throw.
Four layouts, each with its own rules
Pick the shape and the bench changes what it asks for and how it judges the answer.
ClassicWing forward, stabiliser on an arm behind it.
CanardForeplane ahead of the wing, and it must stall first.
Flying WingNo tail at all. A reflexed section carries the trim.
TandemTwo lifting surfaces sharing the load front and rear.
Five airfoils, seven materials
Flat plate to reflexed section; a sheet of A4 to carbon-reinforced balsa. Each one changes the mass, the drag build-up and where the best glide sits.
Eighteen live figures
Wing area, aspect ratio, MAC, neutral point, static margin, tail volume, trim CL, L/D max, best glide speed, minimum sink, Reynolds number — recalculated on every change, with a plain-English caption under each.
Flight Test with weather
Launch speed, angle and height, headwind, crosswind, altitude. Four launch styles from a gentle release to a high-start tow. Replay the side view, scrub the chart, and get a verdict: Clean Glide, Phugoid Porpoising, Stalled and Dropped, Nosed In, Spiral Away or Wind Carried.
Design Coach & Flight Debrief
Ask why it porpoises and get one change to try, not a lecture. Flight Debrief reads the replay and sends the fix straight to Drafting. Works offline too — the bench's own rule engine answers, shorter but never absent.
Ground School
Fifteen lessons from wing loading to why the foreplane must stall first, each with a quiz that explains every wrong answer — and uses your own airframe's figures as the worked example.
Hangar, compare and build briefs
Save every airframe, lay up to five side by side on one glide polar, and take on build briefs — a brief closes itself the moment a saved airframe satisfies every line of it. Nothing to submit, nothing to tick. Evening reminders take yesterday's draft outside; a weekly review reads seven days of throws.
Presets
Eight airframes with the geometry already worked out
Open one in Drafting, or add it to the hangar and change a single number to see what happens.
Dart Classic
A folded dart. High speed, tiny wing, glide ratio you can count on one hand.
SPAN 210A4 PAPERFLAT PLATE
Glider Hawk
Long, slim wing on a light stick. Slow, patient, gives back every metre of height.
SPAN 900BALSA 1.5UNDERCAMBERED
Flying Wing Manta
Tailless and swept, held in trim by a reflexed section and three degrees of wash-out.
SPAN 620DEPRON 3REFLEXED
Canard Kestrel
Foreplane loaded harder than the wing on purpose, so the nose drops before the wing quits.
SPAN 520BALSA 1.5CLARK-Y
Tandem Albatross
Two wings sharing the lift. Enormous total area, a balance point that is fussy to find.
SPAN 700BALSA 3CLARK-Y
Chuck Glider Sparrow
Balsa, thrown hard, built to climb off the throw and circle back down.
SPAN 420BALSA 1.5CLARK-Y
Hang Time Owl
Huge area against almost no mass. Sinks slower than anything else on the bench.
SPAN 780DEPRON 3UNDERCAMBERED
Trainer Cub
A radio trainer wing: thick section, no taper, forgiving to the point of being dull.
SPAN 1200CARBON BALSACLARK-Y
Logbook
A designer is counted in throws
Sixteen badges from the first fold to the hundredth flight, and four pilot levels earned two points per saved airframe, one per completed test flight.
Novice0 PTS
Apprentice12 PTS
Wright40 PTS
Master Wright100 PTS
Contact
Something won't trim?
A glider that won't settle, a figure that looks wrong, a lesson you'd like added — write and it'll get an answer.
Support: dankilam106@gmail.com
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Take it to the bench.
Free on iPhone. Design, trim, fly — and keep every throw.
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Free · iPhone