A single-seat light-wind sailplane designed and built by L. Gardner at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, in 1949. Conventional wooden construction but very lightly built as it was designed to soar in light winds only.
It resembled the R.F.D. 2 sailplane but with angular fuselage nose and tail surfaces.
The one test-flight was carried out in ‘rather a strong wind’ by Mr Gardner, but the Cumulus was blown into the top of the Dunstable Downs and was wrecked.