On 28 Dec 2003 00:26:29 -0800, (Buck Wild) wrote:

Gill Couto wrote in message news:gusHb.24528$J77.3186@fed1read07...
I want to ask you folks a question: why isn't there a glider where
the pilot flies face-down? The Wrights did it, the Horten (?) wing,
and hang gliders are about the only thing you can fly facing the
earth. I don't see why a sailplane couldn't be flown that way, but no
designers appear to even consider the possibility. Ideas?

I have a vague recollection of seeing an RAF jet fitted with an
experimental prone pilot position in a pod sticking out of the front.
It was on a Canberra on Meteor IIRC.

And a web search revealed this!
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/gloster-...e-position.htm

Chris