I've just come across a few more details in:
http://www.chicagolandglidercouncil.com/newsletter_files/CLGCNewsletterFeb02.pdf
There's a comment by the pilot who flew the replica, to the effect that
the glide ratio was about 18:1
That's pretty impressive!
There's also a photo of the glider just off the ground on the lauch tow,
and a comment that the wings were built by a Mr John Lee, who was also
the pilot for the TV programme.
Another comment (backing up Jon Stockill's statement) is that the glider
was in the Imperial War Museum, London for a while, and was moved to
their aircraft collection at Duxford (Cambridgeshire, England) later.
Annoyingly, that's about 6 hours driving from here, or I'd go over there
with a camera.
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Research is revealing that 99% of the info on the Colditz glider on the
web is a copy of some part of someone else's page! The link mentioned
above is a pleasant change from that!
Here's another pleasant discovery:
http://www.aae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html
This claims that the wing on the Colditz Glider is a "Clark YH" which is
great because that's a standard wing and its lift / drag / stall
characteristics are documented. Can't find much on the web, but there's
some aircraft design books down in the university library that I will be
interested to check out....
Steve
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