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Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
- chris williams
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
Nice one, Roger...thanks for sharing
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
The cream coloured mystery glider is a Schleicher Rhonbussard. Dave Stokes had a superb model of one that flew very well.
Regards John.l
Regards John.l
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
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.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
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
I wonder if we modellers could achieve such a crinkly fuz!
great shots Rog.
great shots Rog.
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
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!
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!
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
I think that anonymous one is a Rhönbussard - but (like a lot of them) with a modified cockpit.
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Re: Slingsby Week 2017 - YGC
Thanks Nigel - you're quite right.