Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Gliding To 70,000ft

Thanks for posting that clip Jon, fascinating stuff.

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Great video! Even the details about the towing plane was interesting on it’s own!

Thanks for posting .... interesting vid ..... good to see something where they just got on and did it then reported the results ... so many self-promoters out there with slick vids of computer simulations of what they're going to do that just fizzle out ..... might be a function of the average age of the glider crew and different outlook 🙂

Used to glide myself and even low level wave gliding is impressive ..... altitude running up like you're in a lift until it's air-brakes time before you pass the oxygen limit .... upper level wave to those heights must be something else again! .... very impressive.

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Ps .... remembered I'd seen this while sorting through some old 'real pictures' the other night ... slightly different level of tech and me in 'scruffy oik' mode about to commit aviation .... Burn gliding club and more years ago than is comfortable!! 😁



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My father and a bunch of mates( a fellow ex-RAF chap, the professor of engineering in UCD, An insurance manager, Ralf Slazenger-Who had the money - and an ex Lufwaffe Pilot who had crashed in the south of Ireland and never went home) formed the Dublin Gliding club just after the second world war so I grew up messing around gliders. The wave over the Dublin Mountains saw flights up to almost 12,000ft where we really should have had oxygen, but H&S was alittle more lax then. I loved gliding, but when Family came along money was too tight so have only sporadic scirmishes with the thermals since. Flights to 70.000ft must be fantastic --many thanks for the post
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Many thanks for posting. That is fascinating. My only gliding was a pre pilot course of 20 flights at RAF Cosford whilst an Air Training Corps cadet. The gliders (1973 ish) were a lot more basic than that shown!

Thanks for the link, as a former glider pilot I find that very interesting.

I was lucky enough to fly with Joe Podolski , he was in the same squadron as my late father during the war and were great pals, both demobbed from Coltishall in 1945 a fantastic glider pilot and full of fun.

Rich ... the instructor at Yorkshire Gliding Club who converted me from Gliders to Power in a Scheibe Falke was a WW2 Polish ex-Mosquito pilot ... interesting man to fly with and showed me some moves that you'd never get from an instructor in these days of H&S ! 🙂

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