Name that Flying Machine
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From: New South Wales
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Nanaimo (CAC8)
Clearly inspired by the T21b Sedbergh, but with some differences. Here's the whole aircraft. Note the dive-brakes rather than hinged spoilers and the different fin and rudder.
I remember a joke along the lines of Slingsby mis-reading the plans for the Baby, thinking the dimensions were inches rather than centimetres!
Grunau Baby was single seat however the T21 series was developed by Fred Slingsby based on it.
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Nanaimo (CAC8)
Sorry Asturias! Pipped at the post by meleagertoo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_...nt_RG-1_Rohini
I stumbled on the Rohini quite by accident. I was looking up information on the Indian Mutiny, which took me to Lucknow and then to Cawnpore - now Kanpur. While looking at locations on Google Earth associated with the Siege of Cawnpore, I noticed a small airfield near the centre of the city, which took me to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight...ry,_IIT_Kanpur
It's amazing where the Internet rabbit hole takes you.
meleagertoo has control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_...nt_RG-1_Rohini
I stumbled on the Rohini quite by accident. I was looking up information on the Indian Mutiny, which took me to Lucknow and then to Cawnpore - now Kanpur. While looking at locations on Google Earth associated with the Siege of Cawnpore, I noticed a small airfield near the centre of the city, which took me to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight...ry,_IIT_Kanpur
A Rohini glider, designed and developed at Technical Center of Civil Aviation Department and manufactured at HAL, was the jewel in the crown of the Flight Lab. The open cockpit, side-by-side seating, fabric covered wooden structure glider became very popular among students and used extensively for research work.
meleagertoo has control.