Slingsby T.21 photos

The vintage glider club produced a CD with all the ATC T.21 AP’s scanned in PDF format on it.

Have you any photos to post of your 21 as you found it?

Rgds from a fellow T.21 owner

On the British Pathe newsreel “Wings for Pauline”, 1949, there is a brief shot of it being bungee-launched at Camphill. . .

– ten minutes into:
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=78621

In the book “Slingsby Sailplanes” by Martin Simons there’s a photo of it in Derby & Lancs Gliding Club colours. It had blue stripes on the rudder (like all DLGC gliders at the time) and clear-doped fabric-covered wings and tail, but was otherwise painted cream.

At the risk of being slightly off topic, if you are a fan of Air Training Corps gliders in the 50’s-80’s, this long-running thread on PPRuNe ( History & Nostalgia board) is a delight.

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/284073-air-cadet-gliding-pix-80s-pre-glass.html

K8B: thank you! I knew about this movie (and actually saw it), but never realized this was BGA.646… Small world! I have the excellent Slingsby book at home, and found the picture. This will certainly help us decide a colour scheme later on (although we are some years off from that: the wings are in terrible condition).

WB981: I have been following the ATC thread on PPrune to see if a picture of our Grasshopper pops up (WZ795), but alas sofar not. Our Sedbergh never flew with ATC…

Attached is a picture as it is now sitting safe in dry storage awaiting the start of the restoration.