The Slingsby Hengist was a British military glider designed and built by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. Like other British troop carrying gliders in the Second...
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brothers: the Slingsby Hengist and the Airspeed Horsa. The 20th-century American poet Robinson Jeffers composed a poem titled Ode to Hengist and Horsa. Likewise...
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Saxon king by Thomas Middleton MV Hengist, a ferry formerly used in the Dover-to-Calais channel crossing Slingsby Hengist, a British World War II glider...
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Slingsby T.18 Hengist – military glider 1942 Slingsby T.19 (target glider) Slingsby T.20 Slingsby T.21 (Sedbergh TX.1) Slingsby T.23 Kite 1A Slingsby...
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Corps) General Aircraft Hotspur (RAF, Army Air Corps) training glider Slingsby Hengist (RAF) Waco Hadrian (RAF, Army Air Corps) List of aircraft of the Royal...
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General Aircraft Hotspur Gotha Go 242 Schweizer cargo glider designs Slingsby Hengist Related lists List of aircraft of World War II List of World War II...
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230 General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Gotha Go 242 Slingsby Hengist Waco CG-4A Related lists List of aircraft of the Army Air Corps (United...
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Aircraft Hotspur, General Aircraft Hamilcar, Airspeed Horsa and the Slingsby Hengist. These designs would take some time to be implemented and produced...
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the British Army pilots who formed the Glider Pilot Regiment. The Slingsby Hengist was a backup design which was not required when the similar capacity...
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configuration, and era Waco CG-4A General Aircraft Hotspur Airspeed Horsa Slingsby Hengist Gribovski G-11 Antonov A-7 Related lists List of aircraft of World...
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Northrop/Canadian-Vickers Delta 19 19 Percival Petrel 7 7 Short S.26 3 3 Slingsby Hengist (glider) 18 18 Westland Lysander (air observation, liaison, target...
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'Fred' Nicholas Slingsby MM (6 November 1894 – 21 May 1973) was the founder of Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd (later Slingsby Aviation). Slingsby was born on 6...
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Maeda Ku-1 Japan 1941 100 Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant Germany 1941 200 Slingsby Hengist United Kingdom 1942 18 Waco CG-13 United States 1945 135 Waco CG-15...
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Rotorcraft 1956 3 233 Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe US Rotorcraft 1962 9.1 370 Slingsby Hengist UK Glider Tactical 1942 Sud-Ouest Bretagne France Propeller Strategic...
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Aircraft Hotspur, trainer 8 passengers and 2 crew. more than 1,000 built. Slingsby Hengist, 15 passengers and 1 crew. 18 built. Allied Aviation XLRA Bristol XLRQ...
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Aircraft Hotspur I; the second was specification X.25/40 which became the Slingsby Hengist, a fifteen-seat glider; the third was specification X.26/40, the 25-seater...
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configuration, and era Airspeed Horsa DFS 230 General Aircraft Hamilcar Slingsby Hengist Waco CG-4A Related lists List of aircraft of the Army Air Corps (United...
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DFS 230 DFS 331 Waco CG-4A General Aircraft Hamilcar Airspeed Horsa Slingsby Hengist Related lists List of aircraft of World War II List of World War II...
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Hotspur Gribovsky G-11 Kokusai Ku-8 Schweizer cargo glider designs Slingsby Hengist Waco CG-4 Related lists List of aircraft of World War II List of World...
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the Slingsby Design Office as a technical artist. Frost designed the Slingsby Hengist, a troop-carrying glider to be used for the Normandy landings. It was...
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Aircraft Hamilcar, and Slingsby Hengist. A sense of irony was present[citation needed] when some of the names were chosen as Hengist and Horsa were the mythical...
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role, configuration, and era Gribovski G-11 Airspeed Horsa CG-4 Waco Slingsby Hengist Kokusai Ku-8 Related lists List of aircraft of World War II Mrazek...
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X.25/40 OR.98 Troop-carrying glider capable of carrying 14 troops Slingsby Hengist X.26/40 OR.99 Troop-carrying glider of wooden construction capable...
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General Aircraft Hotspur Gotha Go 242 Schweizer cargo glider designs Slingsby Hengist Related lists List of aircraft of World War II List of World War II...
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Airspeed Horsa Antonov A-7 General Aircraft Hotspur Gribovsky G-11 Slingsby Hengist Waco CG-4A Related lists List of gliders List of military aircraft...
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T18 may refer to: Slingsby T.18 Hengist, a British glider Thorp T-18, an American homebuilt aircraft T18 Boarhound, an American armoured car T18 howitzer...
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List of gliders (S) (section Slingsby)
Slingsby T.13 Petrel Slingsby T.14 Kirby Gull 2 Slingsby T.15 Kirby Gull 3 Slingsby T.16 Slingsby T.17 Slingsby T.18 Hengist Slingsby T.19 Slingsby T...
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Disbanded Fate 1 Gliding School December 1942 RAF Strathaven Slingsby Cadet TX.1 Slingsby Sedbergh TX.1 RAF Dungavel RAF Dumfries 1 September 1955 Reformed...
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Whitney Straight; mods for Harvard, Mustang Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. Kirbymoorside Repair Hadrian, Hengist Southern Aircraft (Gatwick) Ltd. Gatwick, Tinsley...
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