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Old 04-14-2015, 03:40 AM   #11489
Carruthers
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Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
The cloth (?) covering on the plane (visible in the 'related videos' thumbnails after the vid plays) looks exactly like Grandmadigr's table cloth.

Found it...

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The glider constructed was a lightweight, two-seater, high wing, monoplane design. It had a Mooney style rudder and square elevators. The wingspan, tip to tip, was 32 ft (9.75 m), and it was 19 ft 9 in (6 m) from nose to tail. Prison sleeping bags of blue and white checked cotton were used to skin the glider, and German ration millet was boiled and used as a form of dope to seal the cloth pores. The completed glider weighed 240 lb (109 kg).
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