Open Cockpit Gliders?

[DL152279546231]

What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....

[Vaughn]

"DL152279546231" > wrote in message
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> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....

1-26 with the sport canopy, and the Gapa.

Vaughn

[Doug Hoffman]

DL152279546231 wrote:

> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....

Marske Monarch

-Doug

[LittleJohn]

Vaughn wrote that:
> DL152279546231 wrote:
>> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....
>
> 1-26 with the sport canopy, and the Gapa.

Old Bicester pilots will say the Primary and the T-21. And even older
ones will say the Oly 2B when Don Loucks (An F-111 pilot) was flying it.

LittleJohn
Madison, AL

[Nolaminar]

Slingsby T-21, T-31 and Grunau Baby, and Rhonbussard, Franklin PS-2, Kirby
Kite, Hutter H-17, Habicht, Wolf, Wien, and Wrights.
GA

[Eric Greenwell]

Nolaminar wrote:

> Slingsby T-21, T-31 and Grunau Baby, and Rhonbussard, Franklin PS-2, Kirby
> Kite, Hutter H-17, Habicht, Wolf, Wien, and Wrights.

Wrights had an open cockpit? Those were cockpits? If you are just
sitting on the wing, do you have a "cockpit"? Doesn't "pit" mean
anything anymore? Dang, what's this world coming too?
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[André Somers]

Nolaminar wrote:

> Slingsby T-21, T-31 and Grunau Baby, and Rhonbussard, Franklin PS-2,
> Kirby Kite, Hutter H-17, Habicht, Wolf, Wien, and Wrights.
> GA
Don't forget the Slingsby Prefect. It's much like an English build Baby.

André

[DL152279546231]

Can any of these be seen today?? How bout a home built?

[Phoebus_810]

(DL152279546231) wrote in message >...
> Can any of these be seen today?? How bout a home built?

Trye http://www.vintagegliderclub.org.uk/

[Richard Brisbourne]

LittleJohn wrote:

> Vaughn wrote that:
>> DL152279546231 wrote:
>>> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....
>>
>> 1-26 with the sport canopy, and the Gapa.
>
> Old Bicester pilots will say the Primary and the T-21. And even older
> ones will say the Oly 2B when Don Loucks (An F-111 pilot) was flying it.
>
> LittleJohn
> Madison, AL

The last GSA club I was in had an Eon Primary. Sort of a no-cockpit sort of
glider.
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The real name on the left is richard

[Dave Nadler YO]

My Whale (RHJ-8) is quite pleasant open cockpit.
I leave off the overhead canopy, but leave in place
the front and rear canopies. A bit drafty but lots
of fun. Sounds like ones ear is next to the towplane
exhaust on tow though.

Best Regards, Dave "YO"

(DL152279546231) wrote in message >...
> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....

[Marcel Duenner]

(DL152279546231) wrote in message >...
> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....

There are also a few Ka8 and at least 1 Ka6 flying with an open cockpit.

[Gary Osoba]

(DL152279546231) wrote in message >...
> Can any of these be seen today?? How bout a home built?


The Marske Monarch, previously mentioned, is a homebuilt open cockpit
design. It has very good low speed capabilities and is therefore well
suited to the open cockpit configuration.

The Woodstock, also a homebuilt, has an optional open cockpit
configuration.

One of the most enjoyable flight experiences I ever had was in Jeff
Byard's beautiful vintage T-21 late one evening during glass-off
conditions in the Tehachapi Mountains. Only thing missing in the
cockpit were a couple of lawn chairs and beers to enjoy the evening
breeze. Very quiet, given the low flight speeds and 4 mph operation
range for the "low " drag bucket.


Best Regards,
Gary Osoba

[OscarCVox]

>> Old Bicester pilots will say the Primary and the T-21

I did a loop in a T21 years ago. VNE then pull up. Half a field floating around
the bottom of the cockpit went up my nose when we had negative G at the top. A
bit eiry with very low airspeed, upside down and nothing between my head and
the ground but 2000ft of air

Nigel

[Mark Crist]

I seem to recall that the SGS 1-26 had a "sport" canopy available. Sort of
a convertable sailplane.

> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....

[André Somers]

Marcel Duenner wrote:

> (DL152279546231) wrote in message
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>> What gliders were/are open cockpit? Baby Albatross?? or.....
>
> There are also a few Ka8 and at least 1 Ka6 flying with an open cockpit.
Yes, I can verify that, as I have flown such a Ka6 :-) I guess the TS mend
to ask "open by design", and that is definatly not the case for either the
Ka6 or the Ka8.

André

[Janusz Kesik]

Lots of Polish gliders there, just to remind ABC, Komar, IS-38 (i know, =
there were also German gliders named the same), Salamandra...=20

You can find lots of information on the including photos here:

http://www.piotrp.de/SZYBOWCE/pszd.htm

Regards,


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Janusz Kesik

visit www.leszno.pl - home of the www.css-leszno.it.pl

[XA310]

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I have seen a K13 which had had the canopy modified so that it was similar to Grunau Baby type of cockpit fairing.