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I spent many hours instructing in one of these (a T.53B) and also had the pleasure of rebuilding the centre fuselage after a heavy landing accident (not by myself I hasten to add!). A couple of things don't sound quite right from the Flight references, the wing sweep forward would be for centre of gravity reasons, the short moment arm of the instructor's position meant that there was minimal CofG change when flying it solo, the Schleicher K7 and ASK13 are the same. The T.53B at least did not have flush riveted structure but tubular dome headed pop rivets throughout which made drilling them out easier, the skin was too thin to countersink or dimple it. I seem to remember that it had servo tabs on the ailerons to reduce the control loads, even then it was very heavy and hard work to fly for any length of time. I have a good Slingsby reference book, will dig it out tomorrow. The YS-53 Sovereign was essentially identical and it should be covered as a variant I think, there is a YS-53 still flying at a gliding club not too far from me. There should be a pdf data sheet on the British Gliding Association website (under 'technical' or 'airworthiness' I think) Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 21:51, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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I spent many hours instructing in one of these (a T.53B) and also had the pleasure of rebuilding the centre fuselage after a heavy landing accident (not by myself I hasten to add!). A couple of things don't sound quite right from the Flight references, the wing sweep forward would be for centre of gravity reasons, the short moment arm of the instructor's position meant that there was minimal CofG change when flying it solo, the Schleicher K7 and ASK13 are the same. The T.53B at least did not have flush riveted structure but tubular dome headed pop rivets throughout which made drilling them out easier, the skin was too thin to countersink or dimple it. I seem to remember that it had servo tabs on the ailerons to reduce the control loads, even then it was very heavy and hard work to fly for any length of time. I have a good Slingsby reference book, will dig it out tomorrow. The YS-53 Sovereign was essentially identical and it should be covered as a variant I think, there is a YS-53 still flying at a gliding club not too far from me. There should be a pdf data sheet on the British Gliding Association website (under 'technical' or 'airworthiness' I think) Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 21:51, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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