In article
s.com, Dave Newill writes
Any of our British friends know if either R G Seyes or F M Gobeil are
still around? 65 years ago in June, they piloted a Troop / Cargo
glider from Montreal Canada to Preswick Scotland as an experiment in
shipping these D-Day Silent Wings machines from the USA to UK.
Apparently the 6-7 hours ( per leg) of hand flying on tow over the
North Atlantic were determined to be too difficult and the flight was
not repeated.

If either of these heroic gentlemen are still with us - we should find
them and celebrate their flight this summer!

I don't know either of these two, but one of the members at our club was
in the Glider Pilot Regiment and I'll ask him next time I see him. He
keeps in touch with the old team, such of them that have survived, and I
expect he'll know them.

When he first appeared at the club he told us the last time he flew a
glider was at Arnhem. He was taken prisoner but escaped. He must be
about 85 now.
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Mike Lindsay