SG-38 Vintage Glider from 1942. Wood frame/Still in use.

[Manley JP]

Unpowered Flight being one of Germany's pre WW2 sports, just came across on youtube, 1942 and still being towed maybe 1000 feet or whatever- good views but petrifying,one would think. 1000 feet up sitting on an orange box crate and a few wires and nuts and bolts... Pilot on his solo flight, only age 15.

Heard that might be open to taking passengers for a ride. Any takers? Hope they do an annual , or better still a quarterly air safety certificate.

SG-38 vintage glider from 1942. The glider is towed by Piper PA18 @ the airfield Spitzerberg in lower Austria.

 

[bill57]

Kugeln aus stahl

 

[Beleif]

Balls of steel?

 

[OldStock]

I would have liked to have seen it fully after the flight.
He was putting a lot of elevator in on that take off.

 

[Manley JP]

I would have liked to have seen it fully after the flight.
He was putting a lot of elevator in on that take off.

That's what the on line video comments were saying, you didn't see the full Glider. Probably half of Germany's Condor legion that went to the spanish civil war were glider experienced- the state encouraged Gliding big time- I am sure that that kind of aviation had inspired the Comet 163 which was a glider after its juice ran out. Gliding, understanding basic flight concepts

I remember and old VHS set that I used to have Wings of the Luftwaffe- which featured the 163 Comet and one of its pilots Heini Dittmar- Just looked him up as didnt know he passed early 60s in an aviation crash - his glider ceiling record was 14,000 feet. Wow.

I would not do any form of gliding for any money.

Heini Dittmar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[billy.whizz]

About 25 years ago i used to fly gliders at our local club and futher away. i flew solo and had a share in a glider with 3 others. it was the greatest way too spend evenings and weekends . some days i just wish i had kept up with my flying. the club had a very old twin seater from the air cadets sit side by side, my earlier instructor and my self used to fly around lunch time and take our sandwiches up with us , great view and good company.

 

[Inca]

I’d jump at a play in/on/with that. I’ve not flown gliders since the mid-70s but I doubt the concept has changed much in the intervening years. Eyesight prevented any career in the air but I’m not bitter - much.

 

[That hurts]

Kugeln aus stahl

Braune Unterhose Zeit, wenn etwas schief gelaufen war

 

[Neil123]

I had a glider ticket many years back, couldn't afford to keep up the yearly hours needed to retain it.
First solo was a Slingsby T61 motor glider Didn't need a tow plane it had a small engine to get you up to altitude then you shut it down and locked the prop to stop it windmilling.
Just tubes and fabric but at least it had a canopy!

 

[Jega]

As soon as i saw the slack being taken up on that tow rope that would be it for me .
Involuntary bowel movements would commence at a catastrophic rate .

 

[Beaver]

Fantastic

 

[Inca]

Am I the only one to have said to himself, “CBSITCB” as the wings were first levelled? Mind you in this instance the second ‘C’ is a little superfluous. I haven’t used that nemonic in close to 50 years but it came back like it was yesterday and my life depended on it (which it then did).

 

[redlig]

That's what the on line video comments were saying, you didn't see the full Glider. Probably half of Germany's Condor legion that went to the spanish civil war were glider experienced- the state encouraged Gliding big time- I am sure that that kind of aviation had inspired the Comet 163 which was a glider after its juice ran out. Gliding, understanding basic flight concepts

I remember and old VHS set that I used to have Wings of the Luftwaffe- which featured the 163 Comet and one of its pilots Heini Dittmar- Just looked him up as didnt know he passed early 60s in an aviation crash - his glider ceiling record was 14,000 feet. Wow.

I would not do any form of gliding for any money.

Heini Dittmar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I did it for 5 years in the'80's and realised it was one of the purest forms of flying with no engine to fail at the most inopportune moments.

 

[redlig]

I would have liked to have seen it fully after the flight.
He was putting a lot of elevator in on that take off.

If you were referring to the amount of forward movement on the stick that is down elevator to avoid it climbing too high above the tow plane . As his natural glide speed is much slower than the speed of the tow plane he would struggle to maintain level flight without a large amount of "down" elevator. Sorry if this is another case of "suck eggs".

 

[redlig]

Am I the only one to have said to himself, “CBSITCB” as the wings were first levelled? Mind you in this instance the second ‘C’ is a little superfluous. I haven’t used that nemonic in close to 50 years but it came back like it was yesterday and my life depended on it (which it then did).

Boy did that bring it back !! I had a Jaskolka at the time and had the added " F " in the mnemonic somewhere.

 

[Whinger]

1975/6 we bought a second hand hang glider. A first generation McBroom 'Argus'. That was enough to satisfy my aviation desires.

 

[Inca]

I did a week’s hand gliding course in 73/74 and it was very much a 1st generation wing. It only had one direction of travel - down. The lack of performance really put me off, shame I didn’t see what the future was going to bring.

 

[BTB 500]

There are some great SG 38 videos out there ... this is one of my favourites:

 

[Manley JP]

About 25 years ago i used to fly gliders at our local club and futher away. i flew solo and had a share in a glider with 3 others. it was the greatest way too spend evenings and weekends . some days i just wish i had kept up with my flying. the club had a very old twin seater from the air cadets sit side by side, my earlier instructor and my self used to fly around lunch time and take our sandwiches up with us , great view and good company.

There are some great SG 38 videos out there ... this is one of my favourites:

Oh my word. !!