Sailplane Collection

Lilienthal No 11 Glider
Otto Lilienthal Taking-Off in His Normal Segelapparat Number 11 Gleitflug, at His Fliegeburg in Lichterfelde, Germany Date: 1895

Amy Johnson helping to tow a Kirby Kite sailplane c 1938
Amy Johnson helping to tow a Kirby Kite sailplane. circa 1938. The driver is Ann Edmonds who later became Ann Welch. Date: 1938

Reitsch, Hannah, test pilot in sailplane, 19 May 37

Bede BD-2 N837BD
Bede BD-2 N937BD. at Rockford, Illinois in 1967. Powered by a 225hp modified Continental IO-360C, this heavily rebuilt Schweizer 2-32 sailplane was intended for a globe-circling

Schempp-Hirth Cirrus 123, the 17m Open-class sailplane (not to be confused with the Standard Cirrus). Date: circa 1982

SZD-48 Jantar Standard 2 732, single-seat Standard-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

SZD-38 Jantar 1 70, single-seat Standard-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Line-Drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci Ornithopter Design Cir?
Line-Drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci Ornithopter Design Circa 1500 Date: 1500s

Bede BD-2 N937BD. at Rockford, Illinois in 1967. Powered by a 225hp modified Continental IO-360C, this heavily rebuilt Schweizer 2-32 sailplane was intended for a globe-circling

Swales SD3-15V, all-metal medium performance low-cost single-seat sailplane, with V-tail. Date: circa 1980

Glaser-Dirks DG-200 EDM, single-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at a regional gliding competition. Date: circa 1981

Glaser-Dirks DG-200 DQQ, single-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at the London Gliding Club, on Dunstable Downs, for a regional gliding competition. Date: circa 1981

Glaser-Dirks DG-200 50, single-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at Lasham airfield during a regional gliding competition. Date: circa 1980

Glaser-Dirks DG-100 50, high performance single-seat sailplane, at Lasham for a regional gliding competition in the 1980s.. Date: circa 1981

Swales SD3-15T 456, all-metal medium performance low-cost single-seat sailplane, with T-tail. Date: circa 1979

Glaser-Dirks DG-100 230 (msn 52, BGA No.2126), high performance single-seat sailplane. Date: circa 1979

Swales SD3-15V 531, all-metal medium performance low-cost single-seat sailplane, with V-tail. Date: circa 1979

Pilatus PC-6 Turbo-Porter HB-FEF
Pilatus PC-6-B1-H2 Turbo-Porter HB-FEF (msn 659), at the Paris Air Show held on Le Bourget Airport in June 1975, with air-show serial 352'

Caproni-Vizzola A-21 Calif 566, 2-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at a regional gliding competition in the 1980s. Date: circa 1980

Yorkshire Sailplane YS-53 Sovereign 153, about to be launched Date: circa 1982

Vickers-Slingsby Vega Sport ECL. The swansong of British sailplane manufacturing, the 15m flapped Vega Sport had retractable undercarriage

Vickers-Slingsby Vega Club ELD
Slingsby Vega Club ELD, circa 1982. The swansong of British sailplane manufacturing, the 15m flapped Vega Sport had retractable undercarriage

Start+Flug H-101 Salto F-WCFH aerobatic sailplane from Germany, at a Paris Air Show in the 1970s. Date: circa 1972

Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus CYF, single-seat Standard-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Schleicher ASW17 40, single-seat very-high-performance Open-class sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Swales SD3-15, medium performance single-seat sailplane at an airshow, somewhere in the UK. Date: circa 1980

SZD Jantar Standard 126, single-seat Standard-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Grob G-104 Speed Astir 114, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, on the Grid at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Glasflugel Mosquito I, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, on the Grid at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition

Glasflugel Mosquito 54, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Schleicher ASW-20 N54JH - 4S, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Glasflugel Mosquito HD, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 2 66, single-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

SZD Jantar Standard 609, single-seat Standard-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Glaser-Dirks DG-200 D-8200 - DG, single-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Caproni-Vizzola A-21 Calif 566, 2-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Flying Machine Inventor Unknown 1877 1877

Otto Lilienthal Pioneer Glider Pilot Portrait 1848-1896 Date: 1895

Gliding with motorless aircraft by G. H. Davis
Gliding and soaring with motorless aircraft explained: how sailplanes are launched and flown. Date: circa 1930s

Gliding training by G. H. Davis
How gliding training helps the war pilot during the Second World War: utilising clouds. 1940

Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by t?
Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by the Low Speed Aerodynamics Research Association at the 1952 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodeome on 15 June

L. C. Marmol in a Lunak L107 sailplane, G-ALSI, is towed ?
L.C. Marmol in a Lunak L107 sailplane, G-ALSI, is towed to height at the 1950 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodrome on 14 May

Spectators in front of the wing of a Sky Sailplane at th?
Spectators in front of the wing of a Sky Sailplane at the 1952 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodeome on 15 June

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