id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-205 Rubik R-03 Szittya I - Wikipedia .html text/html 1096 155 79 Rubik R-03 Szittya I Wikipedia The Rubik R-03 Szittya I (Scythian I) was a Hungarian single-seat sailplane flown in the late 1930s. Ernő Rubik began the design of the R-03 Szittya to meet a Hungarian club call for a motor glider, intending to strut-mount the engine in pusher configuration over the central fuselage. The Szittya I's gull wing was mounted on a fuselage pedestal and was built around a single spar which, with plywood covering ahead of it around the leading edge, formed a torsion-resistant D-box. These changes improved the minimum sinking speed to 0.7 m/s (2.3 ft/s) at 60 km/h (37 mph; 32 kn).[1][4] Revised nose and cockpit cover, small length increase, faired wing pedestal and raised tailplane. Specifications (R-03 Szittya I)[edit] "Rubik R-03 Szittya II, Hungarian gliders 1933-2000". "Rubik R-03 Szittya II, Hungarian gliders 1933-2000". "Rubik R-03 Szittya III, Hungarian gliders 1933-2000". Aircraft designed by Ernő Rubik ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-205.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-205.txt