WACO Glider now inside its new home.

4th January 2012

Now finally inside a building the reconstruction work has begun. We now have a better idea of how much of the glider we have and how much is missing. With thanks to Solway Aviation Museum and Tony Goddard watching e-bay the glider has enough air speed indicators and altimeters for an instrument panel and even a tyre for one of the wheels. The front cockpit section is in great condition considering and Tony has been able to sort out what is missing of the body section we are looking to restore.

25th January 2012

The timber for the floor of the glider was delivered on Tuesday 1st February the first meeting a group of volunteers to get the project meeting met and the timber for the floor of the glider is now laid out and awaiting final assembly.

The wings and tail section are no longer there but the museum does have the front section of the fuselage.

The yellow cord shows the missing sections of steel tubing, the plywood former where the wing position will be. The full wing span would be 84 feet, 25.5 meters luckily because of the size of Alma this is not being fully re-constructed!

The Cockpit frame now finally inside out of the elements facing the camera is the roof you can see the pulley wheels that allowed the rudder and flap controls to operate.

When you think that this supported the 2 pilots and that these things were capable of carrying a jeep there is no room for the extra weight of protection against enemy fire or against the elements. The skid and distinctive cockpit canopy frame of the Hadrian glider! We’re itching to get that fitted up so the skeleton can start to look like a WACO CG-4 glider!

On the News!  Click Here to see an interview with Tony Goddard about the history of the Glider.


Volunteers are welcome to attend a meeting every Tuesday at the Castle please contact Tony Goddard on 01228 532774.
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