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Old 4th May 2020, 14:10
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Originally Posted by chevvron
Sure it's not a Grasshopper?
If Wikipedia is to be believed,

"the [Slingsby T.3 Primary] type became known as the Dagling, a name formed by combining Dagnall and Zögling, which later became used informally to cover all types of primary gliders in the UK"

so a Grasshopper was also, colloquially speaking, a "Dagling".
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