Self-build gliders: a question for the glider pilots
Hi Guys,
As we all know, there are numerous powered aeroplanes (many of them very good) that can either be bought in kit form or, for the purist, built direct from plans.
However I've never heard of gliders being built in this way, yet to me this seems to be an obvious possibility.
(Actually, there is an exception to this. When I was at London Gliding Club in the sixties they were building a thing called the 'Osprey'. As I recall, it took about twenty years to complete! Does anybody from LGC know what happened to this creation in the end. I seem to remember it did finally fly)?
Am I right in believing that kit-build and plan-build gliders are non-existent, and if so why has some form of home-build never appeared on the gliding scene?
Regards,
BP.