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1956
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FLIGHT, 31 August 1956 381 SUNGSBY SAILPLANES, LTD. Slingsby Skylark 3. Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire. Telephone: Kirbymoorside 312 11Y WINNING the two-seater section of the World Gliding Championships this year inthe second prototype of the Slingsby T.42 Eagle, Nick Goodhart and Frank Foster focused international attention on a machine which not only was not designed for contestflying (and indeed had been referred to as the "flying sardine-box" at St. Yan) but which had exceeded in performance some of the most elaborate and expensive sailplanes in worldgliding today. The T.42, of 17.8 metres span, was designed to meet a new need in gliding training—that for an advanced training aircraft capable of good cross-country performance;a sailplane that would help to bridge the gap between the "C" and "Silver C" certificates where, in the past, so much has been left to individual hit-or-miss soaring in solo machines.Production of the T.42 for the British and export markets is to begin in January. In the single-seater field, Slingsby's latest is the Skylark 3, six of which were entered inthe world championships. Two Skys and three Skylark 3s were among the top eleven in the final single-seater placings. The prototype of the Skylark 3 made its first publicappearance at last year's national contests at Lasham, since when the type has undergone minor modifications. With a gliding ratio of 32, the 18-metre Skylark 3 has already begunto follow the example of its older brothers the Sky and Skylark 2 in its appeal to clubs, schools and individuals, abroad as well as in this country. The Slingsby company's exportbusiness in types such as these, in addition to the ubiquitous T.21b side-by-side trainer, has for some years been running at a high level and, with the Skylark 3 and T.42 nowentering the field, the Kirbymoorside factory should continue to be extremely busy. Present production is concentrated on Skylark 2s, Skylark 3s and T.21bs, with approximately 40Skylarks and 250 T.21s having been constructed to date. • Slingsby T.42 Eagle.
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