Fun with an old lady in Wales!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- There is nothing quite like flying an open cockpit two seat Slingsby T21 sailplane high above the beautiful Black Mountains. Based at the Black Mountains Gliding Club at Talgarth in Wales, Snoopy was built in 1947 by Slingsbyand still flies summer or winter.Fun unlimited!
Marvelous video! A really well flown "barge" ...I flew an Eon Olympia 2b in Ireland for a few years, then a Mucha 100A....this was following lots of flying in ASK 13's, Ka 7's, Ka 8b's, Ka 6CR's, ASK 18 with the Dublin Gliding Club and lots of other wooden gliders in the VGC that I can't remember! I loved Chris Wills (RIP). Mad as a brush, but a definite one-ff. (Didn't like having to share the car with his pet greyhounds though...phewwee!)
Barge. I think I only had one AEF in one of those. The rest of my gliding, and first solo, was in the Kirby Kadet Mk3. I can see me having a trip to Wales this summer if I can get a flight in the old girl.
It took me about 10 seconds to realize the "old lady" was the glider. 😅
Takes me back to the 70's floating along the ridge at Sutton Bank with the smell of bluebells and the chatter of walkers drifting up from a couple of hundred feet below.
Imagine being out for a nice peaceful hill walk and hearing Shostakovick belting out of an old Slingsby T21!!! Great video!
Proof that the slower you fly the more enjoyable it is. ..
I first flew in a Sedbergh as a Cadet of 346 ATC (Tynemouth) Squadron, at RAF Ouston, just outside of Newcastle, in September 1966. It gave basic instruction (including spinning) before moving on to the tandem seat T31 Cadet and eventually 3 solo circuits to become the proud owner of the A&B wings. My mate Mick Taylor and I would hitch hike to the airfield, from North Shields, over a period of four weekends, to complete the course. Great memories.
Brings back some memories of learning to fly a glider with the ATC back in the 1950s-we were taught on the Sedbergh (T21) and the Cadet (Mk3) at RAF Catterick. After the A & B Certificates (3 solo circuits) I had hoped to go on for the more advanced stuff (C and beyond) but, sadly, school work/starting work got in the way. Gliding is a wonderful experience and this video gets this across.
I'm only 3 years late to the party but thank you for the upload, it was a glorious flight and I'm sure it was a chilly one too!
My husband learned to fly on these with the air cadets and eventually ended up becoming an airline captain. He loved it even though he said it flew like a brick and did not stay in the air for very long.
Flew in one of these as a cadet at RAF Henlow in the '60s. It was luxurious compared to the ones we soloed in!
Many years ago, I used to fly our club 1-26 with sport canopy, I'd make a bunch of paper airplanes, do a complete stall and throw them out. Climbing in thermals with hawks was always fun. Good times.
This Shostakovich is the perfect accompaniment!
Очень класное видео! Спасибо за такие кадры!
l can remember flying this type of glider back in the early 60's at 633 glider training school RAF Cosfod, boy it did drop.
Stunning! What a lovely Old Girl she is! That looks like pure flying fun to me. I have walked those hills and mountains many times as a young man, with my brother. Sadly, these days, the knees are no longer up to it but it would be good to fly over them one day. Perhaps I will.
Do it!
I learned to fly in the old 21….brings back lots of memories.
So did I.... great fun.
Wonderful machine,the mainstay of the original gliding clubs in the fifties,they were nicknamed 'Barge' very good footage continue to enjoy the old lady.
One word,, beautiful
Nice video. Thanks
Back in 80 was when we got to go up in these at RAF catterick. Thanks for the memories
Ah! That took me back!
Back to the mid 70’s, as a teenage ATC Cadet, taking my first fights out of White Waltham near Maidenhead!
Gaining my ‘Wings’ with three solo flights. Nothing like your marvellous excursions, though. Mine were all ‘circuits and bumps’ as we only had a ground winch to get us airborne, to the dizzy height of about 1000 feet!
I still remember flying through some light clouds which was ‘interesting’, as I wore my National Health Specs, so the open cockpit left little in the way of ‘protection’, and my glasses got a bit fogged up! That was probably the reason I went slightly too far, downwind and had a bit of a struggle to hop over the boundary hedges, before landing the old bird! Well, that was my excuse, anyway!!! The truth was probably that I didn’t want it to end so quickly!
Happy days!
How many of these ‘classics’ are still flying?
I wish I lived in Wales, I might even take up Gliding again!!!
I love seeing older stuff still being used. Unfortunately we are living in a society where increasingly only the latest and greatest will do.
Piękny szybowiec, piękne widoki.
Fantastic!
Wonderful, ridge soaring in a Barge!
Incredibly cool, from a hang glider pilot point of view
Used to fly one of these with ATC 1113 squadron RAF Halton in the 70’s.
Likewise, 393 Sqdn ATC. I spent many happy days at RAF Halton early-mid 70s flying in T21 Sedburghs and the T Mk3 Flying Bricks
I would totally crash that plane trying to unstick the orange vane...It's making me nuts just watching it on video!
What a fun looking plane!
And the site you're at. Wow! Amazing!
amazing video ... I loved it
Gotta Love the Horn!
That is a very beautiful airplane!
Brilliant video! so well produced. Very suitable music. Didn't know Shostakovich wrote that - does anyone know what its called? I flew in these at the Kent Gliding club in the 70's
Had a winch launch in a T21 once at Newark. (UK) It was an awesome experience.
T21 happy memories 🤗Cambridge University gliding club flying from Duxford
Spent many hours thermalling a T21 from winch launches in Kenya in the '90s. Went to 16,000 ft one time - 10.00 am , Sunday morning with only a T shirt on , just testing the air with first launch of the day as the first tiny short lived cumulus cloud was spotted and not really expecting much in the way of lift. Airfield at 6,000 ft ASL and we hit a thermal on downwind leg at 600 ft , steep right turn , got centred immediately with vario unwavering on 5 m/sec up and up we went milking it out to 16,000. Despite equator being only a few kms away it was really , really cold ! My fellow pilot luckily had a sweater with him tied round his waist , "hold it steady" he says undoing his straps to get the sweater on. With just that one single climb flight lasted almost an hour including doing some spins to get it down in reasonable time for joy riders waiting patiently on the ground.
Hi Robbie, I live in South Wales now so will be up to see you soon. Chris Fiorntini.
Great sunset flight...👍
What a joy...
Thats where I am going in a week! I really want to take our clubs slingsby T21 :(, fibreglass in not really the same!
Some lovely shots, Robbie. Miss the place. May have to gatecrash you before too long. :-)
I learnt to fly a 21 at RAF Bicester with Flight Sergeant Andy Gough CFI. Great times
I flew at Bicester too. I remember Andy Gough, a great guy. He took me up for a aerobatics flight and we did an inverted circuit of the airfield. I was a Halton Apprentice at the time. He got me onto the Blanik and the Ka8.
Yes he took me up in the Blanik and did some aerobatics great plane but sometimes alarming with the creaking metal 😂
Utterly beautiful. M.
Que legal o planador manda mais detalhe como foi feito fotos meu parabéns aos construtores.
Ah! Brings back memories.....no, not the gliding......
Flew one at RAF 636 gliding school Swansea
Que maravilla saludos desde argentina👍
caraca que legal quero dar um passeio, parabéns . . .
1:32 It's the first time I see a PZL vario in knots. How did it get there?
Oh my. A Skylark 4 at the 1:28 min mark. My dad had one quite a while ago.
Joy!
I did not know that John Parker Hammond of jurassic park was flying in a glider ...
Mi fai sognare.....
You make me dream.....
By from Aero Club Bergamo
Italy
used to watch them at RAF Sealand as a kid .
Went first solo at RAF sealand 1977 ! Finished off flying Jumbos.
@@petes.4073 wow.... back to gliders now then ay? lol
@@stephaniekent8483 And what could be more glorious than to return to his roots! I must admit I love these old birds more than the new ones in that you could build one yourself if you wanted to.
That is where I learnt to fly them while in the ATC (2247Sqn)
wow, it uses a Polish vario :)
Expensive ride?
Superbe
The horn is for what purpose?🇦🇺👍
They do a Gimli landing every time
The Sedbergh was a delight compared to the awful tandem Mk 3
It was tough and forgiving in flight. A glider where Vne had no real meaning, even in an extended vertical dive! Useful that the nose dipped when the spoilers were extended.
Confusion, missleading title XD
Bloody stupid music.