Slingsby Capstan

T.49 Capstan
Slingsby T.49 Capstan in 1966
Role Sailplane
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd
First flight 1961
Number built 34


The Slingsby T.49 Capstan is a British two-seat glider of the 1960s built by Slingsby Sailplanes as a replacement for their earlier Type 42 Eagle. It is a high-winged monoplane of wooden construction, the last two-seat wooden glider built by Slingsby,[1] intended for both training and general club flying. Side-by-side seats for the two pilots are accommodated in an enclosed cockpit with a one-piece perspex canopy. The prototype T.49A first flew in 1961, and it entered production as the T.49B in 1963.[2] Thirty-four Capstans were built,[1] one of which was fitted with an auxiliary engine with the designation T.49C Powered Capstan.

Specifications

Capstan BUR/BGA1248 at the Vintage Glider Rally, Camphill, 2011
Capstan T49 Polar Curve, from manufacturer's Handbook
Extended Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes on a Slingsby Capstan

Data from The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge der Welt:Les Planeurs du Monde Volume II[3]Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1969 [2]

General characteristics

Performance


Notes

  1. 1 2 "Slingsby", www.sailplanedirectory.com. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
  2. 1 2 Taylor 1969, p.550.
  3. Shenstone, B.S.; K.G. Wilkinson (1963). The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge der Welt:Les Planeurs du Monde Volume II (in English, French, and German) (1st ed.). Zurich: Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale du Vol a Voile (OSTIV) and Schweizer Aero-Revue. pp. 34–36.

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