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Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:13 pm
by chomp_rock
No I do not know what this one is, that is why I'm asking here. I took this picture on a trip to England earlier this year while near Stonehenge sorry for poor image quality, it is a scanned photograph that is enlarged and cropped so you can see it better.
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I know, the lighting is terrible ::)

Re: Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:24 pm
by Hagar
It looks like a powered glider of some sort. They're quite popular over here these days. Not sure of the type. I shall have to investigate further. If you saw it near Stonehenge it could be based at Thruxton.

Re: Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:54 pm
by Hagar
Any advance on this?

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The Slingsby T.61 "Falke" Self-launching Motor Glider (SLMG). Known as the Venture by the Air Training Corps. A German design originally built by Scheibe as the successful SF-25B Falke.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sssrcsoaring/CliffCharlesworth/T-61/T-61_Documentation.html

Re: Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:59 pm
by chomp_rock
That has got

Re: Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:01 pm
by ozzy72
Definately the Venture. I've been up in one a few times. Nice little VW Beetle air-cooled engine up front. It was the only glider I felt safe in!!!

Re: Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:20 pm
by Hagar
Definately the Venture. I've been up in one a few times. Nice little VW Beetle air-cooled engine up front. It was the only glider I felt safe in!!!

Call that a glider. :o Some people have no soul. And this is a man who thinks nothing of leaping out of perfectly airworthy aeroplanes. ::)

This is a proper glider. The good ol' T.31 Cadet Mk III I learned on. Soaring qualities of your average house brick. One circuit of the field from a winch launch if you're lucky. You young'uns don't know you're born these days. :P ;)

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Re: Identify the aircraft

PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 5:40 am
by ozzy72
I know that I was born (or possibly burst from my mother and scuttled down a sewer to evolve), its the terminal ending trying to fly something like that which scares me ;D