[simpits-tech] This is too cool...

[RickInNoCal at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/04 7:20:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
bcw at palma.infotelecom.es writes:

> 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.

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. 

My father had over 50 hours in his book before his first ever dual flight - 
and that was for aerobatic training !

Richard
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