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Cape Gliding Club
South Africa
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Only an hour’s drive from Cape Town, gliding from our club offers an opportunity to experience the beauty of the world-renowned Western Cape mountain ranges from the air. We have more than 100 members and operate on a non-profit basis over weekends and public holidays. In summer, we have many visiting international glider pilots that visit our club and come to enjoy our excellent flying conditions.
Beautiful Slingsby T21, at 73 she has never looked better. - reupload
At 73, this beautiful Slingsby T21 has never looked better. Over the last six years, Wally Tamsen has lovingly restored her. Join us for her second maiden flight.
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African Sailplane Grand Prix - FINAL DAY
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The final day wrap-up at the African Sailplane Grand Prix, from Worcester in South Africa. We announce the winner, peek in at the prize giving, and look back at the week's events.
African Sailplane Grand Prix - DAY 5 CATCH UP
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An midway update from the African Sailplane Grand Prix, hosted by the Cape Gliding Club in Worcester, South Africa. We have two days of flying remaining, and the leader Michael Phennig (13), is two points ahead of a group of four pilots on (11). Hold on to your seats.
AFRICAN SAILPLANE GRAND PRIX - CAPE GLIDING CLUB - DAY 1
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The African Sailplane Grand Prix is being held at the Cape Gliding Club in Worcester, South Africa. Twelve of the best pilots in the world compete in a Sailplane race to determine who will qualify for the Sailplane Grand Prix Final in Pavullo, Italy in September 2023. Cape Gliding Club has the privilege to host of this prestigious event. Six local pilots will compete against 6 international con...
African Sailplane Grand Prix 2023 - Day 2
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A summary of the progress of the Sailplane Grand Prix hosted by the Cape Gliding Club at Worcester in South Africa.
Happy memories of two of these at London Gliding Club, Dunstable Downs in the mid 1960's. I had getting on for a hundred flights in them.
WhatsApp beautiful example. Designed and first flown in the early 40s. I first flew one in 1981. I wonder. Does yours, with modern fabrics weigh less than a Canvas and dope original?
Flown the t21b and the t21c in the UK in the 1960's and 1970's. Still flying and gliding 57 years later. John.FAI/BGA 51417.
Well done for saving this old bird, it looks fantastic.
So nice to see it looking beautiful and flying again. Thank you for all your work getting it flying again. I last flew in a T21 when I was 15 and an ATC cadet, I'm now 68. We used to affectionately call them 'The Barge'.
Hello, what a brilliant flight! I am Johnnee Sim, I flew this glider in 1974 when I was 14 years old. It was back in the British occupation in Singapore. My instructor is Ray Parkin from England. I hope I am able to visit you and fly this bird again. I was in the press to be the youngest glider pilot. We have no chance of flying like what you have we have very limited airspace. Cheers
Love the T21 Barge, she is happier being winch launched though.
Simply beautiful!
She’s a beaut!
Im building a 1/4 scale T21 soon so will copy your design as its refreshingly not red!
A wonderful aeroplane. May it long continue to fly !!
I recall hitting 6,500 ft (6000 agl) at RAF Debden in Sedbergh 988 back in July 1969. The instructor (Cadet Warrant Officer) copped so much crap as we were just supposed to fly a quick circuit off the winch.
The JS6??????
I have a soft spot for the T21 (Barge) as I got my gliding wings flying one at Swanton Morley, Norfolk, UK in 1976, with the ATC as I was too big to fly in the K3 at 194cm tall. We flew of the winch and it was considered a long flight to get more than 8min but if you hooked a thermal and got up it was brilliant, my T21 record was an hour and a half just after I got my wings and just before I went to do my power flying train on Chipmunks. The T21 I soloed in is still flying in its original ATC colour scheme 🙂
Stunning, a fantastic achievement many thanks for sharing
Love a T21 - One of my earliest flights in one at age 6(ish) from Hus Bos (UK). As long as it was down wind, they could also go gross country quite well. Hus Bos to Plymouth on one memorable occasion...
Thought the Tri-Pacer tow plane wasn't going to make it, yikes!
It was a difficult tow. Tow plane at minimum take off and the T21 nearly at VNE.
I had the same thought. All my glider flights were winch launched which meant you went up like a lift.... until you had a cable break!!!!
The gliding club I learnt to fly at used to have two of these; a red one and a green one. The green one acquired the nickname of Kermit when the Muppet show became a thing.
The gliders definitely has personality and deserves a name. Any suggestions?
Absolutely great job! I learnt to fly at North Weald on these, great fun!
So many have commented about their own experiences with T21s. She revived a lot of good memories.
I can imagine, remember the Mk III too? Always recall my first stall, everything went quiet, you could hear conversations on the ground, the nose then dropped and you had the whistle of the air through the wires! Happy Days!@@capegliding
We have one at Oxford Gliding Club, her name is Daisy, had great fun spinning her, but once pure panic when i looked over the side @5500, I have never done such a long sideslip. So dont look over the side, but such a lovely glider to fly @35knots.....Daisy too has been completely been redone......so now there are 2 perfect T21's in the world.
Had to show the 'instructors' how to fly a T21 when they first got Daisy at Oxford GC - all bringing it in at 55 knots thinking it was a Ka13......used to go merrily on floating down way past the launch point. Had about 500-600 launches and landings on them by then - first solo and Bronze C done in February in the UK in one as well...........
Beautiful!
Congratulations for a restoration project well done! Side-by-Side is the best! (From a Caproni Calif Owner/Pilot)🙂
Fantastic to see the old T21 - we called then Sebdergs when I flew them as an Instructor for Air Cadets with 645 Gliding School at Catterick in the early 1960's. I note yours has the nose weight - used only for solo flying.
We had one of these at the gliding club I flew at in the 90's. It was built like a brick out-house, and flew like one, reliably declining to do anything other than "fall down" unless it encountered a blistering thermal. Then it was an amazing glider to fly, with it's open side by side cockpit. Ours still carried it's RAF livery, but had two flat "Bugatti" style foldable windscreens instead of the formed perspex ones it should have had. It was basically flying "Austin 7". Amazing trainer, as one could only just barely kill yourself in one.
Yet people have flown them over 300km across country in the UK...............
@@soaruk3697 I'm sure that's possible - just not really where we were, as we'd routinely get "sea-breezed" which killed the thermals stone-dead. The stronger the morning thermals, the sooner this happened. But it was a lot of fun to fly, and to see in the air, even if - for where we were - it was all but impossible to "get away" in!
Greetings from a Pietenpol builder in Velddrif. Fair winds and blue skies.
Was WB963, delivered to the RAF (Air Cadets) 20 Feb 1950. I must say she looks beautiful. WB960 was the first T21, and aircraft, I ever flew in back on 10 Sep 72
Have just checked my old Air cadet logbook and found that I had three short flights off the winch in this Sed under instruction.9/8/1975 at RAF Henlow!
Fantastic to see a T21 so beautifully restored and flying. I had quite a few flights in T21s and T31s as an Air Cadet 52+ years ago - winch launched, which was always fun.
Me too, out of RAF Debden. I soloed in a Kirby Cadet though. 👍
@@stevepersighetti3400 Although I was deemed to be up to solo standard, and flew my last couple of flights without any input from the instructor, I didn't get the chance to solo because I was still too young. Then I joined the RAF not long after my 16th birthday and that, and life in general got in the way, so I've not flown in a glider since 1971!
@@stevepersighetti3400 I should have said that my flights were also from a famous Battle of Britain airfield, Tangmere in my case.
@@dabrab Assuming I had to be 16 then I guess I did the course in 1972. It seems scary today to think that I was allowed to solo with such limited experience. I've also not been in a glider since but promise myself that I really should. Bicester isn't that far from me.
All I can say is WOW, WOW!!! Well done Wally
Super!
Lets go uncle nic
not me watching the first few seconds thinking its real because i didnt read the title
This is awesome!
Wow, This is super cool, some awesome machines. Unfortunatley the net worth of all that glass is more then most sailplanes pilots will ever get to experience. Very small crowd, quite the elite club. Till things change the Ls3's , 304cz and some 20 plus year old glass is plenty good - best most of us will see. Grand Prix though excites me, Competition and setting goals is great fun. I'd like to compete against others sometimes flying the same course - like this. If your part of this soaring world though, welcome to the club of the worlds best kept secret!
this goes hard
Super!!!
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Very nice low pass!
I am aiming to soar around those mountains some day ☁️☁️..
You should!
Great video. I have very fond memories of flying in Worcester!
Glad you enjoyed it!
There must be some killer thermals in that hot place. Or does the relative air density become a problem?
Average summer thermals in the Valley maybe 2.5m/s, on the mountains could easily be 5m/s, also depends how far one is from the coast. Inland, towards the Karoo a nice day would be 10,000ft+ with maybe 3.5m/s avg.
Nicely done.
Thanks!
Great meeting up last week - I was visiting Babylonstoren & spotted a gyro overhead.... I wonder if it was the same one ?
Could be
South Africa has to be one of the best places to glide in the world. This means that it is a great place to hold competitions. Unfortunately though, much like every other place there are far too many prangs. What is worse is that the very best competition pilots are the ones who often have them. The reward of flying on the edge and risk taking is far too great. The gliding movement really needs to get their house in order and try and prevent reoccurence. May I suggest that pranging your glider removes your score in any competition for the competition you are in and in any other for the next year. This won’t stop you flying nor being part of competitions (you can normally fly hors concours) but will penalise risk taking. Far too many national and world champions are no longer with us for bad reasons. Having said that I wish this guy a speedy recovery.
Wonderful video...thanks for sharing...hope the injured fellow does a full recovery ! 😁❤
As I said bevor. Absolutely amazing video. Hope to see some more after the SPG as well.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant Production. Well done to all involved