Glider Collection

D-Day - Glider reinforcement team
A team of paratroopers amuse themselves whilst awaiting the call to take flight in their glider to back up the initial assault phase on the Normandy coast

German Glider Meeting
Poster for a German gliding meeting

A glider catapulted into the air

German inventions for war in the air by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war in the air. Illustrating the methods and machines exploited and used by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Douglas Dakota picking up a glider, Normandy; Second World W
Illustration showing a Douglas Dakota, C-47 Skytrain, swooping down with a hook trailing to pick up a Waco glider, Normandy, France, 1944

Santos-Dumont Demoiselle replica 9 : A flyable replica built by Personal Plane Services Ltd at Booker, for the 1965 film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

German gliders in Battle of Crete by G. H. Davis
Landing air troops: German gliders of the Battle of Crete during the Second World War. By the use of gliders, parachutes and mass-produced aeroplanes for crash landings

Petaurus breviceps ariel, sugar glider
Petaurus breviceps ariel (Gould, 1849) sugar glider. BMNH 1842.5.26.1, female skin & skull, lectotype photographed next to specimen BMNH 1855.12.24.308 paralectotype skin

de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk G-AOUO of Air Service Training. AOUO was purchsed by the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association in the early 1970s and converted to a Supermunk

Chanute Type Biplane Glider Hang-Glider of 1896 Date: 1896

Chanute Type Biplane Glider Hang-Glider of 1898 Flying Date: 1898

Wilbur Wright in the 1902 glider in flight. Date: 1902

Men of the British First Airborne Division in a glider; Seco
Photograph showing a unit of the British First Airborne Division in a glider on the way to Arnhem, September 1944. On 17th September 1944 Operation Market Garden was put into action; a bold plan

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Chanute biplane glider

Bleriot-Voisin float glider shortly after launch on the Sein
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Maxim-Dunne glider
The Maxim-Dunne glider at Crystal Palace 1904 Date: 1904

Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1 11652, the 2nd prototype amphibious assault transport glider at the Naval Air Material Centre (NAMC) Philadelphia

Dittmar HD. 153 Motor-Mowe D-ELEX
Dittmar HD.153 Motor-Mowe D-ELEX. A powered development of the Dittmar HD.53 Mowe glider, produced in limited quantities in 1950s Germany. Date: 1960s

Amy Johnson alongside a Zogling primary glider
Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English female pilot (the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia) standing beside a Kegel-built Zogling primary glider, near Wendover

Porte and Pirie Glider early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Pilcher Hawk Glider early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Walton No. 1 Glider early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

The Arial Steam Carriage - proposed flying machine
The Arial Steam Carriage An illustration of proposed flying machine probably 1840s

Pointon Hawk glider, in flight at Mangere, NZ, in 1931. (rnzaf.proboards. com/thread/30588/hawk-glider-1931) Date: 1931

Fauvel AV. 36 R15
Fauvel AV.36 R15, a tail-less glider of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association, based at the RAFGSA Centre, RAF Bicester

Piper Pawnee B G-AXED
Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee B G-AXED (msn 25-3586), in use as a glider tug at the London Gliding Club, Dunstable. Date: circa 1975

de Havilland Chipmunk 22 G-BBMS
de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk 22 G-BBMS (msn C1/0359, ex T.10 WG306), in use as a glider tug at the London Gliding Club, Dunstable. Date: circa 1975

Raymond Baxter being filmed in a Slingsby T. 21 glider
Raymond Baxter about to have a glider flight during filming, in a Slingsby T.21 2-seat training glider, at Lasham. Date: circa 1960

Canadian registered light aircraft and gliders
A selection of Canadian registered light aircraft and gliders, L to R, top to bottom:- CF-FPH, a Cessna 195; CF-EUM, a Piper PA-12; CF-FKL, a Beech 33 Bonanza; CF-ZAI, a glider; CF-ZBK

Glider Aircraft at National Gliding Contests, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, July 1938 Date: 1938

Schleicher K-6E CCU, at RAF Greenham Common for an Inter-Services Regional gliding competition in the 1980s. (My ex-wife had a share in this glider, so I could fly it any time I liked - fantastic)

SNCASO SO-P1 Ferblantine 01, during assembly at the SNCASO factory in Vichy France. First flown in 1941, this glider was hidden when Vichy France was occupied by the Germans

Schleicher ASW20 EBX (msn20058, BGA No.2565), in the glider parking - preparation area at a gliding competition in the UK. Date: circa 1982

SZD-9 Bocian 1E BGA No. 2013
SZD-9 Bocian 1E BGA No.'2013 (msn P.670), Polish all-wooden training glider. Date: circa 1981

Eiri-Avion Pik-20E G-BHNP (msn 20253), a Finnish-built self-launching glider.. Date: circa 1981

Let L-13 Blanik G-ATRA (msn 173304), all-metal training glider. Date: circa 1979

Yorkshire Sailplanes YS-53 Sovereign 556, , all-metal training glider, ready to emerge from the hangar. Date: circa 1979

Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer 3 G-AYFA
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer 3 (CC.1) G-AYFA (msn 538, ex XM285, ex G-31-15), slowly succumbing to spares recovery among the glider trailers at Shobdon

Fournier RF-5 G-AZRK (msn 5112), at Strathallan in July 1978. The Fournier RF-5 is a two-seat motor glider designed by Rene Fournier. and produced, principally by Sportavia-Putzer GmbH. Date: 1978

WW2 poster, August - Gliding, featuring ATC (Air Training Corps) gliders. One of a series of prints commissioned and published by CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts)

Piper Pawnee G-BDPJ
Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee G-BDPJ (msn 25-3665), in use as a glider tug with the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RSAFGSA), Date: circa 2000

CASA 127 U. 9-04 - 79-112
Fuerza Aerea Espanola - CASA 127 U.9-04 - 79-112 (msn 04), in use as a glider tug at the SpAF gliding school. (Fuerza Aerea Espanola - Spanish Air Force). Date: circa 1995

Schweizer SGS 1-26E N17953
United States Air Force - Schweizer SGS 1-26E N17953 (msn 553), a club glider of the USAF Academy, in April 1997. Date: 1997

Schweizer SGS 2-33A N7538
United States Air Force - Schweizer SGS 2-33A N7538 (msn 168), a basic training glider of the USAF Academy, In April 1997. Date: 1997

Schleicher ASK21 N972AF
United States Air Force - Schleicher ASK21 N972AF (msn 21320), advanced training glider of the USAF Academy, In April 1997. Date: 1997

Tetrarch tank and Hamilcar glider by Alan Anderson

Glider used for display at the Cobham Air Circus Date: 1930s

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