Slingsby Hengist | |
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Slingsby T.18 Hengist Mark I (DG676), on tow while with the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment based at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, 25 April 1943 | |
General information | |
Type | Troop-carrying glider |
Manufacturer | Slingsby Sailplanes |
Designer | |
Number built | 18 |
History | |
Manufactured | 1942–1944 |
First flight | January 1942 |
Retired | 1946 |
The Slingsby Hengist was a British military glider designed and built by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. Like other British troop carrying gliders in the Second World War, it was named after military figures whose name began with H, in this case the Jute invader Hengist.