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Volume 26, Issue 8
1 August 1954
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| August 01 1954

The Slingsby Type 37 Sailplane: Some Details of an Inexpensive Glider with Laminar‐Flow Wings

T.A. Brown
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1954
Aircraft Engineering (1954) 26 (8): 264–265.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb032460

THE Slingsby Type 37 is an unusual sailplane with many unconventional features of design and construction. It has been described, by one of the team that carried out the original test flying programme, as the first of the next generation of sailplanes.

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