"Aviation Photo Thread" (Planes, Helos, Balloons, etc)...

The Schneider Grunau Baby was a single-seat sailplane first built in Germany in 1931, with some 6,000 examples constructed in some 20 countries. ...... it was accepted wisdom that the pilot should feel as much unimpeded airflow as possible, to better sense rising and falling currents of air and temperature changes etc. (Wikipedia)

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Took these yesterday at my local airfield.
caught the C17 Globemaster coming in, then drove to other side of airfield to get it going out.
Hungarian plane, dropping pilots off for training on the simulator apparently...
 
The K-6
"...the glider proved popular with pilots and clubs thanks to its simple design, pleasant handling characteristics and sufficent performance for serious cross country flights. The basic design was refined into the most numerous variant, the Ka6-CR's. In 1963 Otto Schäuble and Karl Betzler flying two Ka6-CR's broke the world distance record flying from Stuttgart, Germany to Saint Nazare on the French Atlantic coast a total of 876km."(The Schleicher Ka6 Site)
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