Identify the aircraft

[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.

I know, the lighting is terrible

[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.

[Hagar]

Any advance on this?



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

[chomp_rock]

That has got

[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!!!

[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. 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.

[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