Looking for two British pilots who towed across Atlantic 65 years ago

On Mar 21, 3:39*pm, raulb wrote:
Good idea.

BTW, did you know that there is a piece of the rope and some photos at
the Museum of Army Flying, in Middle Wallop, England?

\On Mar 21, 9:14*am, Dave Newill wrote:

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!

Ironic, this post, as I just aerotowed a 2-32 from Hollister, CA to
Williams, CA and back. I have been reading Steven Ambrose's, "Pegasus
Bridge", about the DDay British Glider assault at midnight! Those
Horsas were big birds. I suppose it was a Waco these guys were towing.