<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/28/04 7:20:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, bcw@palma.infotelecom.es writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Yes, I got my Gliding License on those later on, good fun. I remembered what the machine I described was called, it was a Dagling but I don't know who built them.</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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The Dagling was also a Slingsby - it was also known as the T-3. By the time I started lessons, (around 1970) the UK military no longer allowed primary flight instruction in single seaters :-( Everyone had to start dual and progress to solo flight like we do today, so the T-21 and T-31 were the main first trainers. <BR>
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My father had over 50 hours in his book before his first ever dual flight - and that was for aerobatic training !<BR>
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Richard</FONT></HTML>