Colditz glider to fly again..

Provisional transmission date of 11th August on Channel 4, watch this space…

FB

The pilot of the first replica didn’t kill himself during landing which suggests that any conclusion drawn from the results of the latest radio controlled landing is invalid.

So what does that prove? The glider wasn’t crashworthy? Hardly supprising I would suggest.

From the article, the pilot said he had to bring the glider down short on account of buildings that weren’t built on the proposed landing site in 1945….

Replica Colditz glider crashes !!

Quote:
‘The radio-controlled replica, which was piloted by a dummy, had soared from the roof above the main chapel. But it crash-landed and the body was decapitated, suggesting the escapees who would have piloted the a/c would have died.’

A reasonable assumption from the off, I would suggest !!

A little bit about it in The Heil

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116492/Flight-Colditz-British-PoWs-daring-glider-escape-takes-sky-67-years-late.html

A little bit about it in The Heil

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116492/Flight-Colditz-British-PoWs-daring-glider-escape-takes-sky-67-years-late.html

Check out radio times online, along with the Sunday times, and mail on Sunday. Hopefully yesterday’s afternoon antics made it to the copy deadline!

FB

Check out radio times online, along with the Sunday times, and mail on Sunday. Hopefully yesterday’s afternoon antics made it to the copy deadline!

FB

I will look forward to watching it.

Dave

Its the same production company doing this one, that did the last one – so its pretty much a follow on from that earlier series!

Steve – I’ll put as much beer as you can drink in the bar at Bicester on it if it isnt better! – if its much better – I’ve always wanted to see what the Biggles Biplane is like! 🙂

FB

Mind you. Having just watched the programme made in 2000, they will have to go some to beat it!

I think its a great idea – anything to promote gliding!

FB

Viagra 😉

Richard

All glider pilots are used to keeping things up with no visible means of support..
🙂

You can watch the replica fly on this Channel 4 programme here:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/escape-from-colditz/4od#2922634

I’m probably raining on somebody’s parade but hey -ho….

Isn’t this a bit of a pointless exercise, given the fact that within the last 3 or 4 years, and with the help of one or more of the original designer/builders (sadly no longer with us) somebody has already made a replica and proved that it can fly

or am I missing something here?

So this is a ‘new’ one?

Of course, it is quite old. I would not have expected that they could have got it up again so soon.

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Viagra 😉

Richard

So this is a ‘new’ one?

Of course, it is quite old. I would not have expected that they could have got it up again so soon.

Made out of ‘porridge,’ flown by ‘dummies’- it’s got to be a winner !

The replica when it was displayed at IWM London