Those magnificent buggers certainly never gave up on resisting any way they could. Almost brings a tear to my eye to see that wonderful aircraft finally up in the sky!
Cheeky bugger thermalled it on its first flight. Not bad for a strutted open cockpit glider made of of bed bits and porridge. So very happy the designers got to see their design airborne.
in reply to SinDawg030 I¨m glad you said that - I was just feeling a little embarrassed at the tears pricking at the backs of my eyes as I watched it fly...
These men gave us freedom from tyranny and see this bird fly is like the symbolic crowning glory of that. Think Corran Purdon was captured after the St Nazaire raid? Must have prompted so many thoughts seeing the glider actually work.
I watched this doc on channel 4 and remember vividly the emotion it stirred in the X Colditz prisoners a great shame that flight footage was cut short. Does anyone know what happened to that little glider after the documentary? It really aught to be on display at Duxford or similar.
Would have been great if they could have flown it one time just to see her go. Got to admire how crafty and resourceful these guys were to escape but at the same time fight off the boredom. Clever peepers too.
Brings a tear to your eye to see it fly. Them gentlemen are generation that will never be forgotten. God bless them.
What a magical moment for these guys so many decades later!
How beautiful, that glider, and that it was (rebuilt and) finally given the opportunity to fly, with its designers there to see it.
Those magnificent buggers certainly never gave up on resisting any way they could. Almost brings a tear to my eye to see that wonderful aircraft finally up in the sky!
Cheeky bugger thermalled it on its first flight. Not bad for a strutted open cockpit glider made of of bed bits and porridge. So very happy the designers got to see their design airborne.
Thanks for posting this, it was outstanding. So sad to see that we are losing our Greatest Generation little by little...
I agree but we must build on their efforts and sacrifices.
Well said.
Yes we were not going to tunnel home, this time we were going to fly home on bedsheets and millet. So Proud.
in reply to SinDawg030 I¨m glad you said that - I was just feeling a little embarrassed at the tears pricking at the backs of my eyes as I watched it fly...
They should have named the glider the "red fox" in memory of mike sinclair
These men gave us freedom from tyranny and see this bird fly is like the symbolic crowning glory of that. Think Corran Purdon was captured after the St Nazaire raid? Must have prompted so many thoughts seeing the glider actually work.
I watched this doc on channel 4 and remember vividly the emotion it stirred in the X Colditz prisoners a great shame that flight footage was cut short. Does anyone know what happened to that little glider after the documentary? It really aught to be on display at Duxford or similar.
Would have been great if they could have flown it one time just to see her go. Got to admire how crafty and resourceful these guys were to escape but at the same time fight off the boredom. Clever peepers too.
Thank you for uploading this
Would have been a brave man to take it for its 1st flight off the roof.
Die gedanken sind frei...
These men were made of pure steel.
Priceless.
They would have bloody done it.
awesome i just skipped to to the end but i read the ooriginal was a 2 seater ?
Wonderful design. They could have got back over the channel with this thing.
i'm sad for the cat :(
Brilliant....indeed !!!
6:56 There were NO american participants in the Great Escape from Sagan. STOP TELLING LIES.
John Wayne won the second world war single handed.
@@countcliff6079 Actually, it was Chuck Norris(!).
Wow!
and the birds "(
Gliding over the channel? From hundreds of miles inland beforehand?
No, their aim was to get out of Colditz castle and down-river a little to a meadow where locals left fishing boats.
They just wanted a few hundred yards