The Kometa-Standard was the second glider designed by Pavlov and Panchovsky, a fully
aerobatic Standard Class aircraft of almost entirely wooden construction, though with
fabric covered control surfaces. The wings, straight tapered in plan and set at
mid-wing position, were single spar structures with
leading edge plywood covered D-boxes. They had 4° of
dihedral. There were salmon type
fairings, tapering, slender, streamlined bodies, at the
tips. The Kometa-Standard had
mass-balanced,
slotted ailerons and
spoilers at 60%
chord which opened above and below the wing. The
fuselage of the Kometa-Standard was a
plywood covered
monocoque with the
cockpit extending close to the metal nose cone. The
canopy of the prototype was of long bubble form, proud of the rear fuselage line, but this was lowered and reshaped on the production
Kometa-Standard II, merging into the rear fuselage from which it was hinged. The cockpit was changed again in the Kometa-Standard III which had a sliding canopy over a reclining seat, making this variant 30 km/h (19 mph) faster than the Kometa-Standard II. Overall, the fuselage tapered uniformly from the cockpit to the tail. The Kometa-Standard had a 110°
butterfly tail, its plywood and fabric covered surfaces terminating, like the wings, in little salmon fairings. Its undercarriage was a fixed
monowheel, fitted with a brake and assisted by a forward, rubber sprung skid. ==Operational history==