Slingsby T.3 Dagling
RFD (Dagnall) Dagling
Варианты:
Slingsby - T.3 Dagling - 1930 - Великобритания
Страна: Великобритания
Год: 1930
Планер

Photograph, taken in March 1940, shows RAF sergeant pilots being taught to glide by civilian instructors of the London Gliding Club at Dunstable, Beds. A Slingsby Type 3 Primary Trainer is being launched before a group of expectant RAF personnel.
The open version: primaries without nacelles resembled “a five-bar gate suspended below a wing”.
It was on this type of glider that the author obtained his gliding “A” Certificate. The R.F.D. Primary Dagling was a British-built version of the German Zogling, which resulted in the name Dagling.
A member of the Summer Camp making a "ground-hop" in a "Dagling."
A "Dagling" primary trainer which the London Gliding Club has made more efficient by fitting a nacelle around the pilot.
The innovative clubhouse photographed just after it opened in 1936.
Amy Johnson receiving her first gliding lesson from Jack Rice at Dunstable in 1937. The glider is a nacelled Dagling primary - Amy later bought a Kirby Kite I.
A BRITISH GLIDER: A series of photographs showing the R.F.D. "Dagling" under construction at Mr. R. F. Dagnall's works at Guildford. The "Dagling" is an improved Zogling type, cleaned up to give greater efficiency.
The Gull 2 nearing completion. Fred Slingsby, right, and an unknown assistant check the controls. Note the butterfly-type canopy. In the background the A-frame and wings of a Slingsby Primary glider bear the old golden eagle trademark.