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Can anyone identify this glider?
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Can anyone identify this glider?
Fin is wrong shape for it to be a Pilatis....
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- Location: Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire
Re: Can anyone identify this glider?
Glasflügel Club Libelle 205.
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Re: Can anyone identify this glider?
100% Roger, I had the misfortune to test fly the full size after repair, absolutely noway a early solo glider....
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Re: Can anyone identify this glider?
That’s interesting to know Antonia. I think Chris W had a 1/3 scale version a while back and I don’t remember him being a huge fan of it either.
A full size landed out two fields from our house many years ago. I chatted to the pilot while he waited for his retrieve crew and he invited me to sit in the cockpit. It was laughably too small for me and we could only half shut the canopy. A bit like trying to stuff a 1/3 scale pilot into a 1/5 scale model!
A full size landed out two fields from our house many years ago. I chatted to the pilot while he waited for his retrieve crew and he invited me to sit in the cockpit. It was laughably too small for me and we could only half shut the canopy. A bit like trying to stuff a 1/3 scale pilot into a 1/5 scale model!
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Re: Can anyone identify this glider?
Antonia is right, I didn't know anyone who had a good word to say about this glider way back in the day. A couple of decades ago I test flew a 1:4 scale model built by a relative novice from a continental kit (glass fuselage & foam wings). It was a total pig to fly and handled like a suet-pudding and had a nasty stall habit. I didn't break it, but he did a few weeks later.
Brian S.
Brian S.