Hindustan Aircraft G-1

The Hindustan Aircraft G-1 was a Second World War Indian transport glider and the first design of Hindustan Aircraft Limited, the company that became Hindustan Aeronautics. It was designed in 1941 and 1942 as a ten-seat, semi-monocoque wooden glider with a plywood-covered fuselage, a single-spar cantilever wing with upper-surface spoilers, tandem dual controls for a pilot and co-pilot, and room in the rear fuselage for eight passengers or cargo, with gun ports in the windows so troops could fire rifles in flight. Only one prototype was assembled and flown, although parts were made for ten more gliders that were never put together.