Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC

[chris williams]

Nice one, Roger...thanks for sharing

[John Vella]

The cream coloured mystery glider is a Schleicher Rhonbussard. Dave Stokes had a superb model of one that flew very well.
Regards John.l

[Jolly Roger]

The cream coloured mystery glider is a Schleicher Rhonbussard. Dave Stokes had a superb model of one that flew very well.
Regards John.l

Many thanks John. Like most vintage gliders, it has been beautifully restored. Funnily enough it's also spent most of the last 2 hours circling over our garden, leading to several wobbly stripes on our lawn.

[Elliot Howells]

I wonder if we modellers could achieve such a crinkly fuz!

great shots Rog.

[Barry_Cole]

I can.......



BC

[Jolly Roger]

Crinkly maybe but you can still get it up! On Tuesday the Rhonbussard had a phenomenal flight, as the YGC blog records:
Top of the podium was Nick Gaunt who flew Justin Will's Rhonbuzzard for over five hours covering a large slice of Yorkshire in the process and taking the machine, it is believed, to its highest ever high point (8,000ft above launch), a mere 83 years since it first flew

Not to be out done, one of the Slingsby Skys travelled even further afield and recorded a height gain of over 14,000ft!

[Nigel Argall]

I think that anonymous one is a Rhönbussard - but (like a lot of them) with a modified cockpit.

[Jolly Roger]

Thanks Nigel - you're quite right.