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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 2, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that to open the swing door on the General Aircraft Hamilcar glider (pictured) and allow vehicles to emerge, pilots had to climb out of the glider's cockpit and slide down 15 feet (4.6 m) of fuselage?

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Gliders (Alan Lloyd)

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Hello @Nigel ish, I noticed you reverted my edit. I don't quite know how to start this off lol so I'll just dive into it.

Following the ISBN to the "Online Text" pages, the year that Gliders was published is listed as 1984 on all pages that have the book. (Open Library, Biblio, Better World Books, Bowker Bookwire)

Then, through the "Online Databases" pages, (except for Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue) the opposite seems to occur! WorldCat, Copyright Clearance Center, Goodreads, and LibraryThing all list 1982 as the year of publication.

I notice at WorldCat that it suggests that there were two different editions of the Corgi book, so perhaps that is where the confusion has arisen.

I suppose unless you or I are able to obtain a copy of the 1984 version, and the nearest copy to me according to WorldCat is 4,000ks away, lmao, I'm happy to leave it as 1982. I just thought that I would make sure that we were all on the same page in regards to where I got my information from.

Moving forward: I will go back through my edits and change any other Corgi references back to 1982. However, I also wish to add back in the author-link parameter, so unless you have an issue with that, I will do so.

Thanks, JordyGrey _talk🧸 03:13, 9 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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