Glider Collection (page 6)

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

Air Scouts taking off in glider
A Slingsby T.21 Glider taking off with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout glider in flight
Slingsby T.21 Glider flying with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Air Scout in glider
An Air Scout sits smiling in the cockpit of a glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scouts and Guide with a glider
Two Air Scouts and a Girl Guide sitting in the cockpit of a Slingsby T.21 glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

P. M. Scott, National Gliding Champion
P.M. Scott, winner of the 1963 National Gliding Championships, sitting in an Olympia 419 glider at the Lasham Gliding Centre

Scout operating winch for gliders
A Senior Scout at the controls of a winch used for launching gliders at the Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

An experimental Glider

Glider of Ganymede
Though Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the largest moon in the solar system, they rely on their abundant air currents (its a windy place) to carry gliders wherever they travel

Lamberts Hydroglisseur
Lambert demonstrates his HYDROGLISSEUR (water-glider) off the coast of Monaco. Its a bit of a gamble, he is heard to remark

CHANUTEs GLIDER 1895
Octave Chanutes glider experiments at Miller Beach, Indiana, not only attracted great public interest, they made a substantial contribution to aeronautics

Henschel Hs-126 Ww2
After serving during Spains civil war, this is one of Germanys most versatile non- combat aircraft during WW2, for tasks ranging from recon- -naissance to glider towing

Manpowered Project 1922
A grinning cyclist tries to get his glider airborne at the Parc des Princes stadium, Paris - but his wing is woefully inadequate to carry so much weight

Kitty Hawk Glider Flight
Orville and Wilbur Wright test unpowered gliders against the wind at Kitty Hawk. The first powered flight was achieved there on 17th December 1903

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