Category: Other Aircraft

In 1966 John Sellars, the new Slingsbys chief engineer made a design study for the T-52 – a proposed 14.6 meter tandem two seater aimed at replacing the ATC fleet of Cadet TX Mk,3 and Sedbergh TX Mk.1 gliders. The T-52 was never built but led to the T-53 prototype which flew the following year. […]

In 1944 the RAF Air Training Corps did not approve of the T21 design and so the Air Ministry produced their own specification, TX 8/45, which led to Slingsby producing the T24 known as the “Falcon 4”. The original Air Ministry specification was complex & demanding, seemingly written by a team familiar with powered aircraft […]