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  • March 31, 2013 at 2:36 pm in reply to: Christchurch Special Duties Flt etc. #946850
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    The Slingsby Kirby Kite marked “5” may be BGA 258 (ex Yorkshire Gliding Club), which carried competition number “5” at the 1939 National Contests. . .

    February 11, 2013 at 3:41 pm in reply to: Ex RAFG Glider in evilbay #1001081
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    A few more to add to the list:

    196 Schleicher ASW 20BL (20694); J Duncan, Brüggen .86; to BGA 3266 2.87
    504 Schleicher Ka 6CR; D Woodcock, Brüggen by .84; damaged 7/8.86
    515 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6188) ex D-6151; N Kidd, Gütersloh .79; to BGA 2636 3.80
    518 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6060) ex D-5187; 7.74; to BGA 2476 7.79
    519 EoN Olympia 2B; by .64
    522 Mayrhofer-Diessner MD.1 (1) ex D-1719; Nimbus GC by .62; to BGA 1213 9.64
    522 Schleicher K 8B (1) ex D-0322; Two Rivers GC by .81; to BGA 3157 4.85
    535 Grunau Baby II; Nimbus GC by .65
    545 Schleicher ASW 20 (20376) ex D-8780; C Heames & synd, Brüggen .88; to BGA 3419 3.89
    548 Scheibe SF 26A Standard (5038) ex D-8454; to BGA 2608 2.80
    557 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6301) ex D-5572; to BGA 3670 11.90
    568 Schleicher K 7; Pegasus GC c.90
    572 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6373Si) ex D-5725; A Killingray, Brüggen; to BGA 2287 9.77
    611 Grob G103 Twin II (3709) ex D-2611; Eagle GC .87; to BGA 3835 1.92
    712 Schempp-Hirth Standard Austria SH1 (61) ex F-OTAN-C3; Synd, Brüggen; w/o, Brüggen 28.4.68

    November 19, 2012 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Dunstable, Beds. Bygone Aircraft Factories #965680
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    A fuller version of the article by David Underwood is on the Dunstable and District Local History Society website at http://www.dunstablehistory.co.uk/Newsletters/Newsletter38.pdf
    – Newsletter no. 38, p.282-283

    October 22, 2012 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Can you Identifty this Wreckage #1002568
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    Here’s another photo from a slightly different angle, in case it helps at all. Described as “a medium type bomber with a Bristol engine”. . .

    March 12, 2012 at 6:43 pm in reply to: Spencer Flacks Baron G-FLAK #1031636
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    From a slightly different angle, G-FLAK racing at Staverton 10 June 1990. . .

    March 12, 2012 at 6:43 pm in reply to: Spencer Flacks Baron G-FLAK #1022429
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    From a slightly different angle, G-FLAK racing at Staverton 10 June 1990. . .

    February 6, 2012 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Heads Up Bomber Boys with Ewan McGregor #1072577
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    A good programme, but spoiled for me by the constant music drowning out the sound of the engines. . .

    February 5, 2012 at 7:43 pm in reply to: BOAC Gliding Club Christchurch #1073805
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    There was no postwar civilian gliding in Britain until January 1946. The Airways Aero Club at Hurn had a gliding section which was active from 1 Sept 1949, flying a Slingsby Kite II.

    June 20, 2011 at 9:46 am in reply to: Gliding at RAF Swinderby #1068040
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    East Midlands GC was based at Swinderby from May 1956 to March 1976. There were also two civilian clubs flying there for a short time – Lincolnshire GC in the mid-1960s and Witham GC in the mid-1970s.

    February 5, 2011 at 11:26 am in reply to: F. Harold Lowe #1131236
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    Just tying up the loose end of this old thread. . .

    According to the ledger entry for G-EBEX, the owner’s initials were T H Lowe – http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EBEX.pdf

    This would have been Thomas Harold Lowe, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1901. After marrying Dorothy E Wilde, he changed his name to Charles Herbert Lowe-Wylde, and in 1930 set up a business with the modest title of the British Aircraft Company. He died while flying one of the company’s products at West Malling on 13 May 1933.

    January 10, 2011 at 7:16 pm in reply to: Fairey Seaplane Data Plate #1090421
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    This from Air-Britain’s Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911 – 1919:

    Fairey Hamble Baby tractor biplane seaplane, ordered 1.17 under contract no. A.S.4765/17 & built Hamble (130-hp Clerget 9B)

    N1331 (F.140) delivered Lee-on-Solent week ending 1.11.17; Deleted week ending 29.11.17

    December 31, 2010 at 7:12 pm in reply to: Slingsby T.21's WB976, WB983 & WB986 #1100856
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    WB983/BGA 3175 was owned by the Altair Gliding Club at Edgehill/Shenington. Last C of A lapsed in 1991.

    WB986/BGA 3265 was last owned by Gerry Traves at East Kirkby; C of A lapsed in 1997.

    No idea where they are now. . .

    November 20, 2010 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Westmacott Skylark #1141549
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    I don’t think the Westmacott machine could really be described as a glider, it was just a tethered man-carrying kite, incapable of free flight. . .

    November 14, 2010 at 4:53 pm in reply to: Eon Olympia VV400 BGA No 1697 #1148765
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    The UK Serials site says:

    “EoN/0/029 VV401 EoN Olympia I to BGA1697/BTQ”

    It looks as though someone has confused this aircraft with EoN 463 serial no. EoN/S/029, which is BGA 1225/BTQ.

    VV400 became BGA 1697/CPK. . .

    September 14, 2010 at 7:02 pm in reply to: Alternative British name for the term 'Warbird'? #1147754
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    The Germans call historic aeroplanes “Oldtimers”, though to us that sounds more like something out of the California Gold Rush. .

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