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Slingsby Week - YGC

Anything to do with gliders & gliding.
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Jolly Roger
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Location: Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire

Re: Slingsby Week - YGC

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It's a pleasure gents.

As well as revealing its skinny spruce and ply anatomy, the Kite is also showing its DNA with its original Grunau Baby rudder and no spoilers. I must have pored over it for an hour, marveling at its intricate matchstick construction and just how thin the wood sections are. Thousands of 1mm ply gussets and miles of 1/4" or 3/8" sq spruce. Here's some more photos...
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Jolly Roger
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Re: Slingsby Week - YGC

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and then some more....
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