The two seater glider in the early black and white footage looks very much like a 1935 design Kranich by Hans Jacobs - until it is in the air when it seems to have straightened out its gull wing ! So presumably 3 b/w gliders. Great footage. Bungee crew with tweed jackets. Great footage.

Awesomeness!

Dodgy final turn!

Watched 7/9/24

Watched 7/9/24.

Can anyone answer me three questions: Q1/ What was the type of glider she goes solo in at 13:30 and Q2/ Did she have any dual instruction in any type of glider at all before the clip of her taking of at 13:30 and 3/ If not, how could the instructor be certain she wouldn't stall and or spin if she hadn't had any dual? I know the wing loading was very low in that type of glider, but even so...

Broomstick glider... teaching sailplane known as the besenstiel. #segelflug #sailplane

Endured this in the air cadets ....sank like a stone ..no like lead in water.... think this could exceed the terminal velocity of gravity theory ..but dont tell anyone ...o.k. Now "learning to fly" ' pink floyd' in an ask 21 ..oh German design of course ...as this in video was copied from the zedburg of course ...

How cool………..

The beauty of flight

I took up sailing. Given the same chances I think gliding would have been a better choice.

Apart from the deployed spoiler, was the rotate into climb a tad early?

I guess that manpower or is it community enthusiasm have become scarce nowadays.

Learned to fly in a Capstan way back in 1972. Happy days.

That's a brilliant idea, cutting out the centre wing cover to make a ground trainer.

1:07 Preflight check not done.

What a great looking vintage glider!

I did think the rate of climb was off. 😊

In 1968 I spent a year at an English boarding school. They had the Cadet Corp which trained kids in things military. The Air Force section did a Glider bungee launch demonstration on the cricket field. The glider did get airborne and flew for 60 feet or so. I thought, well that's one way to do it and headed off to find a secluded place to have a smoke.

Georgetown Texas 1970's ! Fault Line Flyers.

I've had but one glider flight. It was enough to let me know that gliding could be a life time of pleasure. However this life is not about forever. Perhaps in the next life...

I make a point of not doing this.

Wow, this brought back so many memories, both as a glider pilot, and as a winch driver. Winch launches are a lot of fun! Aerotows are better for altitude, but they are hard work for the glider pilot.

CBSIFCB Was what I was taught. Controls Ballast, Straps, Instruments, Flaps, Canopy Brakes. I flew in a Capstain a few times in the early 80s

Pause at 1:08 .. looks like an airbrake you can see below the left wing?

Impressive! Thanks for sharing.

Airbrakes open, foget to check, close and lock during the preflight check.. This is why we use checklists these days and have done away with these acronyms to rember by hart (In Dutch.. SKISTOK, Startplaats vrij?, Kap gesloten en gelocked, Instrumenten, Stuurorganen, Trim, Ontkoppelhaak, Kleppen gesloten en gelocked) Also because sailplanes have become more complicated and every model has its own checklists.

Nice! And what a beautiful day. Great video.

Wonderful video!

Lovely people from a lovely time.

A beautiful classic glider. Great video...keep them coming.

Nice to see the sky flying

Smoking a pipe 4 inches from a doped fabric tailplane - H&S what H&S - seriously it's great that old material like this survives. My parents, sister and I used to go to Camphill for Sunday picnics, in those days you could buy a round cardboard badge and go onto the airfield, watch and eat. Many of the gliders, mostly Olympias, had names like "Edale and "Blue John" and a friend of my dad had built one mainly from scrapped parts as I understand it called "Jack O'Winnats" I think his name was Fred Breeze. That was 67/68 years ago but I occasionally go up there to the viewing area to watch the newer composite aircraft flying. It's all fenced off now, as it should be, but the memories quite quickly return. Thanks a lot for posting this. (Just seen another of your videos and "Edale" is featured - I must check them all )

Looks like fun!

Common mistakes ...Spoilers on take off ..🙄

When I was a kid in the early 60's, there were bungee/tow motor launching of vintage gliders like these at Harvey Young Airport - a small multi hangar grass strip FBO a few miles East of Tulsa, OK. Also Aeronca Champion tow planes took up Schweitzers in the summertime, spending whole afternoons flying over eastern Tulsa.

Fantastic thanks!

Flew K4 at 1971 Camphill Vintage Glider Rally. Then went on to fly K4 and K13 at Morridge. John.FAI,/BGA 61417.

Flew K8s at the Dorset Gliding Club. Delightful little Glider.

That's a bloody long bungee!!

Memories of gliding in the 1960's! John.FAI/BGA 51417 25/08/1968.

Memories of my early days of gliding in the 1960's. T21b, T21c , T49 and T45. Still gliding and flying 57 years later. T21 to K21! John. FAI/BGA 51417 25/08/1968.

Airbrakes open?

Hmm.What did I miss?

Lovely. That's real flying!

Wish I were there...

This why I learned to fly as a kid in the Seventies, to do what the birds do. Less is more, simple is best. And this old-school soaring epitomizes it. So now I have thousands of hours in airplanes, but still only a couple of glider rides. However, as a fire patrol pilot in the Rockies, I do manage to soothe that itch on occasion by pulling back the throttle on windward slopes. Back when I flew freight, I'd sometimes find myself in the tremendous lift of cold fronts and thunderstorms straddling my course; though at flight idle, I'd hit Vmo, abandon my assigned altitude and soar while I had the opportunity. I apologized to ATC, but in the sparse traffic of the Great Plains, they didn't mind. I figure they knew I was just enjoying myself.

Amazing old glider.

Never did Bungee . Lots of winch and about 100 aerotows ..

The year before I was born, my father was employed by Chilton in Hungerford to rework and redesign Hans Jacob's Meise to comply with UK aerobatic standards. It added another 80 to 100lbs. A year or so after the first flight around 1946, EoN took over the production of what was the Olympia.