3 veiw of the glider taken from ‘British Gliders and Sailplane 1922-1970’ by norman Ellison.

Dave

Try Planes of Fame Chino and Vale and the Reno air races. Its cheaper than a divorce!

Dave

My family and i have often wondered If the Germans realy knew about the glider. The German’s would have had an easier time with so many English pow’s tied up with the building of the glider. Can you imagen the Germans joking about the dumkopf Englander’s working on a glider to get over the wall! Using up bed boards and floor boards, making life in Colditz even harder for them.

The design of the glider didnt make the building any easier curved wing tips and using a Luton Bussard type rudder, When the could just made straight wing tips and a Grunau/ Kadet rudder.
I must take my hat of to the people who worked on the glider, I know how difficult i can be working on them.

Dave

Im looking forward to seeing the Wildcat at Old Warden. Haven’t seen one fly since Reno air race 2 years ago! Ive seen the ups and downs at Shuttleworth since the mid 1960’s. I have taken vintage glider’s there for the last 8 years. Not every body likes them! I dont like Helicopter’s. But they all have the place.

Dave

Hawker Hind L7181

There wasn’t any aircraft that interest me enough, this year. I only went last year as the I-16 turn up. Any how im of to Reno in just over a month for the racing.

Dave

There was a film made called ‘Gunbus’. The replica DH2, which was owned by Russavia at the time. It was converted by EMK into a Gunbus for the film. Then back into a DH2 afterwards. They also built a non flyer for the film. This is now at Sywell.
The Grumman Duck was used in the film ‘Murphys War’ when Peter O Tool attacked a U Boat. This was on TV last weekend.

Dave