What Cockpit? MK VI
The XLRA1 is the only Allied glider I can locate (the XLRA2 was designed but never flew. A type I had never heard of, although one exists in a museum.
Open house if C2J doesn't have a fun challenge.
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Looking at the background ,it looks as if it`s on water-A floatplane glider ?
Yes, a flying boat troop carrying glider!
I don't know whether the decision not to go ahead with the design was the thought of loading fully kitted troops between two floating devices in choppy water.
I don't know whether the decision not to go ahead with the design was the thought of loading fully kitted troops between two floating devices in choppy water.
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The Allied LRA-1 Flying Boat Glider was an experimental design that led to two wooden prototypes being produced. (As C2J notes Bu nos. 31503 and 31504). Four more were ordered from the Bristol Aeronautical Corporation. 100 were planned for production but the military never followed up on the order, so the project was cancelled. See daveswarbirds.com for more info.
The Allied LRA-1 Flying Boat Glider was an experimental design that led to two wooden prototypes being produced. (As C2J notes Bu nos. 31503 and 31504). Four more were ordered from the Bristol Aeronautical Corporation. 100 were planned for production but the military never followed up on the order, so the project was cancelled. See daveswarbirds.com for more info.
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Affirmative. Thanks Fitter2! I am familiar with an Alberta based Comp Air 7 that visits our airshow every August, so your photo rang a distant bell.
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