Glider in an unexpected place...

Ok, it's 9:30 Saturday morning, I'm driving through the center of Detroit,
and something catches my eye. I look over and there it is, a glider making a
left turn at a few hundred feet AGL. What the *&^%$$^&?????. I mean, I'm in
the middle of the city!!! Well I look again, and notice that it has the fat
nose of a motor glider - and then I remember that I'm not far from Detroit
City Airport. Ok, mystery solved, there is (or was?) a club that flys motor
gliders out of City, but it sure had me going for a minute.

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Geoff
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Could it have been one of those Schweizer TG7 "cadet killers"? I sort
of recall an article in Snoring about shuttling some of those things to
a club in that area.


Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
Ok, it's 9:30 Saturday morning, I'm driving through the center of Detroit,
and something catches my eye. I look over and there it is, a glider making a
left turn at a few hundred feet AGL. What the *&^%$$^&?????. I mean, I'm in
the middle of the city!!! Well I look again, and notice that it has the fat
nose of a motor glider - and then I remember that I'm not far from Detroit
City Airport. Ok, mystery solved, there is (or was?) a club that flys motor
gliders out of City, but it sure had me going for a minute.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

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Could it have been one of those Schweizer TG7 "cadet killers"? I sort
of recall an article in Snoring about shuttling some of those things to
a club in that area.


dunno. I can't find their (tuskegee airmen glider club) web page anymore...

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060812/BIZ/608120349
has a picture of the wing root and canopy area if you are real good at
aircraft identification.

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Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060812/BIZ/608120349
has a picture of the wing root and canopy area if you are real good at
aircraft identification.

Yep, an SGS-2-37. I drive right under the landing pattern for the
strip they used to use for "landing" practice. They never landed
there, but instead made missed approaches as part of the 2-33 training
program.

-Tom