Talk:Slingsby Eagle

Specification
The current claimed source of the data, http://www.piotrp.de/SZYBOWCE/pszd27.htm, has nothing to do with the Slingsby Eagle; it's about the SZD-27. I have data from Jane's 1956-7, but I'll leave it a few days in case the originator wants to sort it. Otherwise I'll replace.TSRL (talk) 11:02, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Done that.TSRL (talk) 12:03, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Original research
I wrote it so i had better remove it. I shall leave it here in case it can be rescued.

Flying the Eagle is relatively easy with light controls being well coordinated in every respect. Once trimmed, the Eagle can be flown accurately with ease, but weak thermals can be difficult to take advantage of due to the sluggish roll at low speeds. Ground handling can be made difficult due to the position of the tail carrying handles, which require a slight stoop to keep the nose skid off the ground. The weight of the aircraft, when balanced on the big main wheel, can make ground handling a simple two-handed job. Rigging and de-rigging was relatively simple other than the fact that all parts required two or more strong people to lift and at least one other to line up pin holes, etc.

Petebutt (talk) 06:22, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Connection to The Eagle comic
Some twenty years ago I was chatting to a member of a syndicate that owned an Eagle (I think it was AXJ. It was certainly blue.), and he told me about a connection between the Eagle glider and The Eagle (comic). I think he said that Slingsby had named the glider after the comic, that readers of the comic had sponsored the glider in some way, and that the comic had carried several articles about the glider, following its progress as it was designed and built and then flown. If this is true, it would be good to mention the fact of it in this article, and even better to plunder those Eagle articles for information and pictures. Before mentioning it in Wikipedia, though, we clearly need a much better source than my hazy memory of a conversation on an airfield twenty years ago. I expect there is an Eagle Comic fanatic out there somewhere who would be only too happy to rummage through his collection looking for those articles if we asked him. (And it's sure to be a him!). I have put an appeal for information on Talk:Eagle (comic), but if anybody has any other bright ideas for contacting Eagle Comic enthusiasts, please do what you can. Thanks. GrahamN (talk) 03:02, 28 October 2012 (UTC)