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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1271.PDF
2 September 1955 385 fon Olympia IV Eon Olympia II (modified) SAILPLANES and GLIDERS THIS year's National Gliding Championships at Lasham in-troduced several newcomers to the British gliding scene. Brand new were the eighteen-metre Skylark III, with 20:1 aspect ratio,and Elliotts' modified Olympia II with faired cockpit canopy. Competing in championships for the first time were six Skylark Us,representing the new generation of club and syndicate-owned single-seaters. And, following appearances at the World Cham-pionships at Great Hucklow last year, the Olympia IV and the T.42 two-seater were still new enough for their performance tobe studied with interest. And yet it was a Sky, several years old now, which won the Lasham championship. Almost inevitably,it was flown by Philip Wills—the man who, in becoming World Champion in 1952, brought British sailplanes and the Sky in par-ticular to the notice of the world, and paved the way to the out- standing export successes of British sailplanes and gliders sincethen. The two main manufacturers of British sailplanes are SlingsbySailplanes, Ltd., Ings Lane, Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire (Kirby- moorside 312) and Elliotts of Newbury, Ltd., Albert Works, New-bury, Berks (Newbury 312). Some of their current products are illustrated on this page. Slingsby Skylark II Slingsby Sky Slingsby T.42 "Eagle" Slingsby Skylark III T
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