Scale Soaring UK

A typically good turn out of vintage gliders this year at the Yorkshire Gliding Club, with some good soaring conditions so far.

If you're passing by, the event runs until the weekend. 10am is a good time to show up, and the vintage crowd seem very welcoming of aeromodellers.

Here are some photos to give a flavour - if you'd like more detail I have more shots of most so please just shout. The light wasn't great I'm afraid so the flying shots turned out rather dull. Never mind.

First up - not one, not three, but TWO Slingsby Sky's...

Rog

Dart

Meise

(wearing a controversial Swastika that prompted quite a debate).

Ethics aside, it was absolutely showroom-immaculate, the canopy frame in particular being a work of art. Apparently this aircraft was "acquired" by Eric Winkle Brown after the war.

One for the V-tail fanciers, an SB5b.

Sedbergh (a local from the YGC).

It came in to land at a brisk walking pace.

Ashamed to say - dunno this one!

When I like the look of an unknown glider, I rush home and feverishly look it up in one of Martin Simons' fab books.

I have not looked up this glider.

Capstan - there were TWO! The maroon and cream one glistening in fresh paint.

Elliots Oly???

Sport Vega (fixed main and tail wheel, simpler flap/airbrake)

And some general shots...

Nice one, Roger...thanks for sharing

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

John Vella wrote: ↑30 Aug 2017, 17:08 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.

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

great shots Rog.

I can.......



BC

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!

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

Thanks Nigel - you're quite right.