EoN Olympia

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Eon Olympia was a glider produced from 1947 by Elliotts of Newbury. Elliotts had been asked in 1945 by Chilton Aircraft Ltd to make one set of wings for the Chilton Olympia, a glider that had been developed in pre-war Germany as the DFS Olympia Meise. This had been designed by Hans Jacobs and selected as the glider for the 1940 Summer Olympics. The German drawings were not detailed and so entirely new drawings were made by Chilton that merely retained the Meise Olympia's aerodynamic shape. Otherwise it was a complete re-design[citation needed] and resulted in a stronger and heavier aircraft.