Hi all, I’m being a pest again. Do any gliding types out there have any experience of flying the Fauvel? There was one in our hangar at Detmold, Germany in the mid 60s and I thought then that it looked like a nice piece of kit. Just wondering what the handling was like.
By: mike currill - 20th December 2007 at 07:47
Interesting, I didn’t know they made a two seater. I suppose it would have been neccesssary to teach the handling differences between the Fauvel and a conventional glider.
By: G-ASEA - 14th December 2007 at 19:06
Ian Dunkley at Camphill has a Av22 and a Av36 two seater. these have not flown for some years now. I dont know if he’s there at the moment, as he spends half of the year in New Zealand.
By: yakman - 14th December 2007 at 17:08
There are few in france in flying condition, a friend of mine had an aerobatic routine with her and it was really superb, so i know some people can do good flying with her …one is based in Melun just south east of paris for 15Nm…it is AMPAA base (AD4, TBM, Storch, T6, Po2, Tiger moth, IL10!!!, etc etc )
By: Ant.H - 14th December 2007 at 01:25
Cheers Robbo, I’ll leave the link up anyway for anyone who might be interested.
By: Ant.H - 14th December 2007 at 00:23
There’s a Fauvel in one of the hangars at Old Warden, which IIRC is owned by Sir John Allison and is presumably the same aircraft mentioned above.
I last saw it a couple of years ago, and judging by the build-up of dust on it, it’s not been flown for a good long while.
By: slicer - 13th December 2007 at 21:53
I haven’t flown one, but remember watching “The Budgie”, a well known UK Fauvel going through an impressive aerobatic routine, flown by Jerry Berringer at Dunstable some years ago. It was subsequently bought by AVM Sir John Allison and I last saw it in a hangar at RAF Halton with his other gliders. Apparently it could be a handful on take off and landing with a reputation for inducing PIOs (pilot induced ocillation) if sudden pitch changes weren’t anticipated and handled correctly. Interesting but ultimately unsuccessful concept.
By: Martti Kujansuu - 13th December 2007 at 20:59
Hi all, I’m being a pest again. Do any gliding types out there have any experience of flying the Fauvel? There was one in our hangar at Detmold, Germany in the mid 60s and I thought then that it looked like a nice piece of kit. Just wondering what the handling was like.
They got one in Vaasa, Finland. They were going to test flight it this summer, but maybe it was too much for them? :p
http://www.vaasanlentokerho.fi/?action=INavigation::showArticleViewPage(5387)
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