Simviation Forum - Identify the aircraft

Nov 19^th, 2004 at 12:13pm

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No I do not know what this one is, that is why I'm asking here. I took this picture on a trip to England earlier this year while near Stonehenge sorry for poor image quality, it is a scanned photograph that is enlarged and cropped so you can see it better.

I know, the lighting is terrible Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 12:24pm

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It looks like a powered glider of some sort. They're quite popular over here these days. Not sure of the type. I shall have to investigate further. If you saw it near Stonehenge it could be based at Thruxton.

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Reply #2 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 12:54pm

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Any advance on this?

The Slingsby T.61 "Falke" Self-launching Motor Glider (SLMG). Known as the Venture by the Air Training Corps. A German design originally built by Scheibe as the successful SF-25B Falke.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sssrcsoaring/CliffCharlesworth/T-61/T-61_Documentation...

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Reply #3 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 12:59pm

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That has got to be it! I remember it sounding like a ride on lawnmower on steroids Grin

Thanks Hagar, it was bothering me that I could not identify it Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 1:01pm

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Definately the Venture. I've been up in one a few times. Nice little VW Beetle air-cooled engine up front. It was the only glider I felt safe in!!!

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Reply #5 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 1:20pm

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Definately the Venture. I've been up in one a few times. Nice little VW Beetle air-cooled engine up front. It was the only glider I felt safe in!!!

Call that a glider. Shocked

Some people have no soul. And this is a man who thinks nothing of leaping out of perfectly airworthy aeroplanes. Roll Eyes

This is a proper glider. The good ol' T.31 Cadet Mk III I learned on. Soaring qualities of your average house brick. One circuit of the field from a winch launch if you're lucky. You young'uns don't know you're born these days. Tongue

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Reply #6 - Nov 20^th, 2004 at 5:40am

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I know that I was born (or possibly burst from my mother and scuttled down a sewer to evolve), its the terminal ending trying to fly something like that which scares me Grin

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