The name ‘Dagling’ was derived from its predecessor, the ‘Zogling’ – http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/itf/slzgl.htm
…the plans for which passed to mt R F Dagnall of the RFD Company which produced it in UK, in 1933 production was taken over by Slingsby, according to this well-referenced Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingsby_T.3_Dagling
Further:
“The Elliots Primary EoN was a training glider developed in the UK shortly after World War II. It was an absolutely minimalist aircraft, consisting of a high, strut-braced wing connected to a conventional empennage by an open-truss framework, and was a copy of the German SG 38 Schulgleiter.”
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliotts_Primary_EoN )
There are still a lot of Slingsby and (rather fewer) Elliots aircraft still flying and if a Pirat is now considered a vintage glider then certainly the Swallows, Skylarks, Darts, Capstans and Oly 2s and 460/463s of my time are, and whether many are still flying, regularly or not, I can’t say. However, the vintage glider movement in UK is certainly very keen.
Thank you for this excellent thread and the photoes. When wood gave way to glass, the delight of gliding gradually slipped away for me, and I gave up after 30 years flying, without a tear goodbye.
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