SKCC - Southern Kit Car Club. A Club for kit car owners across Southern England. Kent, Sussex, East Hants, Surrey, Berks, Middlesex, London

bigstuff wrote:I can remember seeing a storch seeming to fly backwards at an airshow years ago, obviously it wasn't but what an extraordinary design.

That's nothing. There was an open cockpit high wing glider up at York that would release from the winch at the upwind end of the runway, then fly backwards whilst decending to land where it started. Change passenger and repeat. Obviously only worked when wind was higher than stalling speed.