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530 photos and 4 illustrations tagged glider, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• aviation
• aircraft
• airplane
• aeronautics
• sdasm
• ww2
• assaultglider
• wwii
• worldwarii
• secondworldwar
• combatglider
• militaryaviation
• waco
• wacoaircraft
• wacoaircraftcompany
• usaaf
• wright
• cg4a
• wacocg4a
• wacocg4
• cg4
• sailplane
• 29thtroopcarriersquadron
• schweizer

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• SDASM Archives 478 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 40 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 3 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo / illustration
• Center for Jewish History, NYC 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration
• Australian War Memorial collection 1 photo / illustration
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 1 photo / illustration
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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Carl Gwartney Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

• Stig Jarlevik said:

  CG-4A 43-36720 Are they painting invasion stripes here? Stig

Glider turning to right, Chanute gliding experiments (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Chanute
  "Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of aviation and the initial concepts of the heavier-than-air flying machine."

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  We actually have the original negative for this image in the Wright Brothers Papers. You can see it at www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001696486/. Our caption for it is: "Rear view of Wilbur making a right turn in glide from No. 2 Hill, right wing tipped close to the ground."

Carl Gwartney Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  Stretchers fitted inside of a Waco CG-4A glider. Assault gliders in combat zones that survived intact after landing could be so equipped, and then recovered via an improvised airstrip or "snatched" back into flight, in order to recover those seriously wounded. Here is film demonstrating how a CG-4 would be snatched from a landing zone. YouTube - LoneSentryCom: "Glider Pickup at Eindhoven"