Showing posts with label glider Slingsby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glider Slingsby. Show all posts

Monday, 8 October 2012

Gliding in Ontario & pictures from the air with York Soaring Club

Gliding Ontario View
Gliding Ontario 
Today I am gonna share with you an amazing new experience. My very good friend (and colleague) Dave took me up in the air, on board of his beautiful glider Slingsby T21B. After preparing all the cute little toys on the grass in front of the hangar, we climb in and got pulled in the air by another plane for around 10minutes. Then we were left floating under the clouds and above the autumn colour painted landscape...

Gliding Ontario

And me ready to go up in the air:

Gliding Ontario
What is special about this glider is that the two seats are next to each other (and not one behind) and the open cockpit (which is great for pics). Btw this British beauty (age around 60 years, made 1953-54) is now so rare, that Dave´s glider is the only one in Canada. Only 300 were made in total and still around 200 exist and fly around:-)

On the picture below one can see the air field of York Soaring Club too...

Gliding Ontario
Gliding Ontario