Glider Collection (page 5)

Model glider; a kite mounted on a pole (with a weight beneath), and a cruciform tail unit attached by a universal joint. 1804. From Cayleys original notebook

Pilcher Glider Gull A

Armstrong Whitworth AW52G tailless glider

The 1911 Wright glider after a flight. Date: 1911

The 1911 Wright glider in flight with Orville Wright flying. Date: 1911

The 1911 Wright glider being assembled. Date: 1911

A Wright type glider

The 1902 Wright glider turning to the right using wing warping. Date: 1902

Wilbur Wright in the 1901 glider - Kitty Hawk
Wilbur Wright in the 1901 glider at the end of a glide at Kitty Hawk. Date: 1901

Heinkel He111Z five-engined transport and glider tug

Petaurus australis, yellow-bellied glider
Hepoona Roo. Drawing 47 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Petaurus breviceps, sugar glider
Marsupial, Native name Dab-bie, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

Glider invasions of Britain by G. H. Davis
Official warning about the possibility of glider invasions of Britain, an Air Ministry warning poster during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Man-powered flying machine
A man-powered flying machine in a countryside setting. The Aerostat - Worked by Manual Power - Invented by W. Miller, M.R.C.S. 1843

Normandy gilders, D-Day
An aerial shot of gliders landed in a field in Normandy, at the time of the D-Day landings. 1944

Glider at Kitty Hawk. Date 1911

Close-up view of rudders and elevator of glider in front of the camp building at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Side view of glider flying as a kite near the ground, Wilbur at left and Orville at right, glider turned forward to right and tipped downward. Date 1901

Three-quarter right front view of Wright glider descending from Big Hill. One of four photographs of gliding activities taken on October 27, 1903, when Wilbur and Orville each made two glides

Glider being prepared for flight by Orville and assistants; a number of reporters stand off to the right. Date 1911

Left side view of glider flying as a kite, in level flight, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1900

Front view of glider outside camp building at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Wilbur gliding to the right, bottom view of glider. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Right front view of glider in flight. Date 1911

Right rear view of one of the successful glides made on October 21, 1903 with the 1902 glider (one of three pictures taken on this date); Kitty Hawk camp buildings in the distance. Date 1903 Oct. 21

Side view of Dan Tate, left, and Wilbur, right, flying the 1902 glider as a kite. Date 1902 Sept. 19

Left side view of the 1900 Wright glider before installation of forward horizontal control surface, flying as a kite, tipped forward; Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station

1901 glider being flown as a kite, Wilbur at left side, Orville at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

Left rear view of glider at a high altitude; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

View of the camp at Kitty Hawk from the northeast, showing its condition at the time of Wilburs arrival on April 10, 1908

Side view from below of Orville soaring in level flight, spectators looking up at glider; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911 Oct

Tom Tate, son of Captain Tates half-brother Daniel Tate, posing with a drum fish in front of 1900 Wright glider. Date 1900

Orville at left wing end of upended glider, bottom view; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

Left rear view of glider at a low altitude, showing the fixed vertical fin attached to a front strut; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its skid marks visible behind it and, in the foreground, skid marks from a previous landing; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901

Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost overhead, moving to left, showing bottom wing and elevator. Date 1901

1901 glider soaring, photograph from an out of focus, water-damaged negative. Original negative is blurred. Date 1901

Front view of glider in front of the camp building at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911

Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Wright brothers rebuilding their glider in a wooden shed erected in July to serve as a workshop and to house the glider in bad weather, August, 1901; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901 Aug

Wilbur in glider turning rapidly to the left, Dan Tate running alongside; Big Kill Devil Hill. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck (named after a shipwreck). Date 1900 Oct. 10

Sugar Glider
A Sugar Glider (or Flying Sugar), a small gliding possum, native to eastern and northern mainland Australia. Date: 1960s

Boys Helping Glider
A group of boys with ropes, attempting to guide a glider plane down to a safe landing. Date: 1930s

Glider before Flight
A young glider wearing a crash helmet, seen just before take- off. Date: 1930s

Scouts with Elliotts Primary EoN Glider
One Scout of the 18th Walsall Group sits at the cockpit of a Elliotts Primary EoN Glider, demonstrating how to fly it, while two other scouts sit on the ground watching. 1940s

Air Scouts preparing a glider
Two Air Scouts lift and place the canopy on a glider with another Scout already in the cockpit. 1958

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