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Secr
etarial A
rrangeme
nts ..
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9
Gli
ding- C
ertificates
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9
Gli
ding- C
lubs
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Demon
strations
i
n
Soa
ring Flight
H
en
Kron
feld
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Demon
stration of
Soa
ring
Flight
b
efore HR
H
The
Prince of
Wale
s
H
err
Kronfe
ld ...
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Clu
b
Notice
s
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34
Internat
ional-Com
mission
f
or the Stud
y of
Motorl
ess Flight
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Internat
ional Federa
tion fo
r the Scien
ce of Mo
torless
Aircraf
t ...
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45
V
isit
to
W
asserku
ppe
a
nd Kege
l
Factory
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Coelo
Tempta
bimus Ire
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Imp
ressions
of the Glid
ing an
d
So
aring M
ovement/
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B
y Road
to
W
asserkup
pe
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Mem
bership tothe
Br
itish
G
liding As
sociation
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TWO
SHILLI
NGS AND
SIX
PENCE
THE
BRITIS
H GLIDING
AS
SOCIATIO
N
44a
DOVE
R STREE
T
LOND
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C h c B r i t i s h G
l i d i n g
s s o c i
a t i o n
J o u
r n a l
Vol.
1
AUGUST
1930 No.
2
FOREW
ORD
I
'HE
British
Glid
ing Association has miade
considerable progr
ess
since
th
e
1 issue of the
first
numb
er of the Journal.
The direct membe
rship has
i
ncreased
to
150
the
Affiliated Clubs
to 20. The De
monstrations of So
aring
Flig
ht
during the months
of
June
and July increased th
e membership
of the
associa
ted
clubs very considerably. More than
one club
gained
40
members as
a
direct result
of the attend
ance at
the dem
onstrations.
A few
clubs did not take steps
to avail
themsel
ves of this opportunity.
E D IT O R.
SE CR
ETARIAL A R R A N G E
ME NT S
M
embers are advised that
a
change
has
been made in our
se
cretarial
arrange
m
ents. M
r.
H
oward-Flanders has re
signed
the
Secretary
ship and
has been
elected a
member of t
he
C
ouncil
a
nd wil
l
undertake
the
Edi
torship of
the Journal.
Mr. J.
L.
R.
W
laplington has been appo
inted Secretary.
All commu
nications shou
ld
therefore
be in
f
uture add
ressed to
Mr.
Wa
pling-
ton
as Secretary
of
the A
ssociation.
GLIDING
C
ERTIFICAT E S ISS
UED B
Y THE RO Y AL A E R O N
AUT ICAL
CLUB
3-8-30
C .
H. Lowe
-Wylde .. .
C I
I: Latimer-Needham
M .
D.
Manton
M . L. McCulloc
h
G.
M. Buxton
F/O. E. Lucas Mole .. .
C . A. Price
D.
M .
T. M
orland ...
Col. T
he
M
aster of
Sempill
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30-3-30
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8-6-30
18-5-30
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0
7-6 -30 14-6-30
J.
R. Ashwell-Cooke
...
A.
Goodfellow
Miss
D.
J.
Bradbrooke
T.
G.
Humby
L. C
.
Wi
lliams
H
. A. Abdallali
P.
Michelson
F.
B. Tom
kins
E. C .
S .
Megaw
B.
A. G.
Meads
20-7-30
26-7-30
1-8-30
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GL
IDIN
G
CLU
BS
ffil
iated
to
the B
ritish
Glid
ing As
soci
ation
Chan
nel
Glid
ing- Clu
b,
R.A
.F.
,
Haw
kin
ge,
Nr
.
F
olke
ston
e.
D
orse
t Gl
iding
C
lub,
4,
Derb
ySt
reet,
W
eym
outh
.
Driffield
District
Gliding Club,
T
he
S
choo
l
H
ous
e,
Gem
blin
g,
D
riffi
eld,
Yo
rks.
Dum
frie
s D
istr
ict G
lidin
g
C
lub
,
Th
orn
lea,
R
otch
ell P
ark
,
Dum
fries
.
Es
sex
Gl
iding
Clu
b,
20
. Ba
dlis
R
oad
,
Walthamstow,
Esse
x.
Harr
ogat
e G
lidi
ng Club
,
Th
eWh
ite
H
ouse
,
S
tarb
eck,
Harr
oga
te.
ll
kley
Dis
trict
G
lidin
g Club
,
T
he Red
Lio
n
Ho
tel,
Sout
hStan
ley,
Nr
.
Ha
rrog
ate.
I
mpe
rial Col
lege o
fSc
ience
Gli
ding
Cl
ub,
E
xhib
ition
Roa
d,
K
ensi
ngto
n, S.W
.7.
Ken
t G
lidin
g
Cl
ub,
1
4,
King
Str
eet,
M
aid
ston
e.
Li
ncoln
Gli
ding
C
lub,
.
T
he Ma
nor
Ho
use
,
C
herr
y
W
illi
ngh
am,
Linc
oln.
L
ondo
n G
lidi
ng Clu
b,
443,
Do
ver S
tree
t,
L
ondo
n, W.
i.
Man
che
ster
Gli
ding
C
lub,
Cy
ntra
,
Po
plar
Ro
ad,
Didsbury,
Manchester.
Ox
ford
a
nd C
oun
ty G
lidi
ng
C
lub
,
Br
asen
oseF
arm
,
Cow
ley,
Ox
ford
.
Por
tsmo
uth
So
uths
ea G
lidin
g Club
,
9,, K
ing
's
T
erra
ce,
Sou
thse
a.
Sai
l-Pla
neC
lub
ofT
.M.
A.C
.,
40
4, Kin
g's
R
oad,
Che
lsea,
.
S
.W.
S
carb
orou
gh
Gl
iding
Clu
b,
Har
cour
t C
ham
ber
s,.
S
t.
N
icho
las
C
liff ,
Sca
rbo
roug
h.
S
outh
dow
nSky
sail
ing Cl
ub,
14,
Brun
swi
ck
S
treet
Ea
st,
B
righ
ton
.
Sou
th E
ssex
Glid
ing Clu
b,
19,
T
he
Pav
eme
nt,
Chadwell
Heath.
Sur
rey
G
lidin
g
Clu
b,
24, W
oo
dbri
dge H
ill G
arde
ns,
Guil
dfor
d.
W
orth
ing
D
istr
ict
Gl
idin
g
C
lub,
24, R
iple
y R
oad,
W
est
W
orth
ing.
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D
EM
ONS
TRA
TIO
NS
IN
SOA
RIN
G
FL
IGH
T
Y
H
ERR
K
RO
NFE
LD
T
HEC
ounc
il of
the
B
ritis
h Glid
ing
As
soci
ation
d
ecide
dth
at t
he
be
st
w
ay t
o
adva
nce the
in
tere
sts o
f the
Glid
ing
m
ovem
ent
in the
Brit
ish
Isle
s wou
ld
be
to
ap
proa
ch
the
Rho
n R
ossi
tten
Ges
ellsc
haft
ando
btai
n the
s
ervic
es of
a
fi
rst cl
ass sa
il-p
lane p
ilot,
to
give
dem
ons
tratio
ns
of s
oari
ng flig
ht.
Th
e G
erma
n As
soci
ation
very
kind
lyof
fered
thes
ervi
ces
of
Herr
K
ronfe
ld
and h
is s
ail-p
lane
t
he
W
ein to
the Br
itish
G
lidin
g As
soci
ation
. A
rra
ngem
ent
s
were
m
ade
for H
err
Kro
nfeld
to g
ive
dem
onstr
atio
ns in
Ju
ne. I
t w
as
foun
d
t
hat
The
Da
ily
Exp
ress ha
d c
hose
n
the s
ame
me
thod
of
i
ntrod
ucin
g th
e s
port
to this
co
untr
y an
d h
ad
secu
redH
err
Ma
gers
uppe
a
nd a
stan
dard
Prof
esso
r
ty
pe
sai
l-pla
nefo
r d
emo
nstr
ation
s.
It
was
only
w
hen
it
was
disco
vere
d that
the
Itfor
d
H
ill h
ad b
een
sele
cted
for
b
oth p
ilots
that
The Br
itish
G
lidin
g A
ssoc
iatio
n
and
The Daily
Express
became
aware
of each
other's
plans.
F
ortu
nate
ly
the
C
hair
man
, Mr.
G
ordo
n E
ngla
nd,
and
Col
onel
Th
e Ma
stero
f
S
empi
ll w
ereab
le
to a
rrang
e
for
the de
mon
stra
tiont
o b
e ru
n
join
tly u
nder
the
m
anag
eme
nt of
Me
ssrs.
Woo
lfe
and
Luc
as.
H
err
K
ron
feld
arr
ived
in Lond
on
on M
ay 28
th.
He
was
en
terta
ined
byCo
lone
l
the M
ast
er of S
emp
ill t
o lu
nch
at th
e R
oyal
A
eron
auti
cal Soc
iety
whe
re
he wa
s in
trodu
ced to
t
heot
her
que
sts:
Lieu
t.
Co
l. M
ervy
n O
'Go
rman
,
M
r.
H
and
ley Pag
e,
C
apt. En
twis
tle,
Dr
. M
erto
n, Her
r von
Sch
erpe
nber
g,M
r.
Wo
olfe
. Her
r
Flin
sch,
secr
etary
toH
err
K
ron
feld,
an
d M
r. L
.
How
ard-
Flan
ders
, secr
etary
ofth
e
Br
itish
Glid
ing
Ass
ociat
ion,w
ere a
lso
pres
ent.
In
th
e e
venin
g Herr
K
ronf
eld,M
r. G
ordo
nE
ngl
and,
and
Co
lone
l
t
he
M
aste
r
of Sem
pill
we
re ente
rtain
ed
tod
inne
r by
Air
V
ice-
Mar
shal S
ir Se
fton
B
ran
cker
.
O
n 2g
th
Co
lonel
t
he
Mas
terof
S
emp
ill ve
ry k
indly
arr
ange
d
for a
Blue
bird
to
be p
lace
d
a
t
the
di
spos
al ofH
err
K
ronf
eld, wh
o
wa
s flo
wn
from
Hes
tonv
ia
I
ving
hoe
Bea
con,
W
inch
este
r, Amb
erley
,
Itfo
rd, L
enha
m Cr
oss,,
b
ack
to He
ston
.
In
the
e
ven
ing
He
rr Kr
onfe
ld
lect
ured
to
the
K
ent G
lidin
g Clu
b
at M
aidst
one.
On
Jun
e 5th
a p
ress
dem
onst
ratio
n w
as g
iven
at
It
ford.
Bo
th p
ilots
ga
ve go
od
dem
ons
tratio
ns to
th
e pres
s and
m
any
ph
otog
raph
s were
tak
en.
O
n
Sat
urda
y, 7th
Jun
e, th
e win
da
t
Itfor
d w
as d
ue N
orth
a
nd o
f
su
ffici
ent
str
eng
th to
e
nsure
go
od soar
ing.
T
he Lon
don
Gli
ding
C
lub
bro
ugh
t t
he Pru
fling
Gli
der,
pur
chas
ed
fro
m
the
A
ssoc
iatio
n
o
n
hir
e purc
hase
term
s.
Th
e Ke
nt Clu
bb
roug
ht
their
glid
erof
wh
ich
th
eya
re j
ustly
prou
d, desi
gned
by
Mr.
L
owe
-Wy
lde,
bui
lt
b
y the
Clu
b
Mem
bers
,
the
first
Zogling
type
glider
to
fly
in
England
andwhichsecured the
first
Glider
Pilo
t's
Certi
ficat
e A
for
i
ts de
sign
er, th
us
ensu
ring
tha
t t
hef
irst
Gli
ding
Cl
ub
t
osta
rt
in
En
glan
d
h
ad t
he
fir
s.t qua
lified
instr
ucto
r
in M
r.
Low
e-W
ylde
. T
his
g
lide
r arri
vedon
it
s t
raile
r,
w
hich
has
beco
me
afa
mili
ar
sig
ht onth
e ro
ads
in K
ent,
h
avin
g
tr
avel
led ove
r a
thou
san
d mile
s this
year
.
The Bri
tish
Gl
iding
As
socia
tion
bad
a
prim
aryt
rain
ing
gli
der
bui
ltby
the R.
F.D
.
Co.,
so
that
m
em
bers co
uld
ob
tain
som
e in
struc
tion
at
time
s whe
n H
err
Kr
onfel
d wa
s not
o
ther
wise
e
ngag
ed.
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T
he
after
noon started off
with a flight of
Herr Magers
uppe
of
over twohours,
fo
llowed by H
err K
ronfeld at about
5
p.m., w
ho madea f
light of nearly
3
ho
urs,
attaininga
height of 2,500
feet above Itford Hill.
Earlier
in th
e
day
Capt. Latimer
Needham made a fl
ight of 22 minutes on
the
R.F.D.
primary
tra
ining
glider, rea
ching
a h
eight
of nearly 100
feet
ab
ove th
e
top
o
f the hill. He
was not
able to land on
the
hill
and glided
to the
bottom. Later
on
he
took
out
the P
rufling
and
qualified
for his
C Certifica
te
with a
flight of
ove
r
an hour. Later in the
day Mr. Marcus
Manton
qualified
for his
C Certifica
te
with a
flight of 6 minu
tes. Mr.
Buxton w
as
the n
ext
t
o qua
lify
for
his C Cer
tificate
with
an
excelle
nt performanceon
the Pruflingin which he
did banke
d turns
an
d made
som
e of
the spectato
rs
fear that
he mig
ht
stall,
but
t
he rising
air
cur
rent
was
st
rong
enough
to
support
an
ything.
On
Sunday mornin
g Herr K
ronfeld gave a cou
rse
of
instruction onthe
R.F.D.
glid
er and Flight
Lieut. Fox-Barret
t
qualified
f
or
his A
certi
ficate. T
he
Kent
Club
Glider
was being used
most of th
e
day but
in the
evening it met wit
h
a c
om
plete crash
.
However Kent has
always
l
ived
up
to
Invicta
and
by
working
all n
ight,
c
lub
members were able
to see
the
gli
der take theair
by
n
oon on Mon
day.
The
wind
was not so
suitab
le
as on
Saturday, but
both Herr
Kronfeld and Herr
Magersuppe
made num
erous
soaring
flightsof
over half an
hour.
Monday, gth
June, the wind
was fluky from
the West, and
soaring
fligh
t
was
almost impo
ssible. He
rr Magersuppem
ade a forced
landing at the
foot of the
hill but
Herr
Krohfeld was able
to maintain his
altitude
and made
som
e fin e
flights
ret
urning
to the starting po
int. The demonstrations
wer
e continu
ed
on
the
Tuesday
but a heavy
mist
prevented
flying.
The follow
ing week-end,
the i4th and isth,, th
e demo
nstrations were agai
n
at
Itford ; on
Saturday the wind
was again Nort
herly but
very
ligh
t. A small
amount
of
pr
imary trainin
g was doneand a few
short
soaring
fligh
ts
wer
e
m
ade
by t
he sail-plane pilots
.
On
Sunday
the
w
ind
f
reshened
towards the
evening and
C o
l.
the Master of
Sempi
ll qualified
fo
r
his
C
G
lider Pilot's
Certificate. Bo
th sail-pla
ne
pilot
s
g
ave some good
exhibitions. At 5 -130
Herr
Kronfeld set off across
the country;first
he flew
almost due North,
gaining heigh
t over Glynde Hil
l. He
then dis
appeared
in a North-W
esterly
directi
on,
and flew
via Pete
rsfield to Bedhampton
Hill near
Portsm
outh, a
distance of about
50
miles
in a straight
line.
The
week
-end, 2ist
and
22n
d June,
the demonstrati
ons
w
ere at South Hart-
ing;
the
wind
wasligh
t and from
a
South-West
erly direction.
The
hill
was not
suit
able
for
this wind,
consequently the
sail-planes we
re
onl
y
able
to
m
ake
pro
longed glides. Some
instruction
was given on
the
R
.F.D. glider and
the P
rufling.
The demonstration
s,
which
had been m
anaged join
tly
by
the British Gliding
Association and
the
Dai
ly Exp
ress, were
now
take
n over by th
e
Brit
ish
G
liding
Associat
ion, and were
continued on the 28th
and
2gth
June
in
conju
nction
with
the
Channel Gliding Club,
on 5th
and 6th July
in
conjunction with
the Dorset
Glid
ing
Club,
on gth and loth
July in
conjuncti
on
w
ith the Ilkley Gl
iding Club
and
the
Ha
rrogate Gliding Club, a
nd on the
nth and i2th
in conjunc
tion
with
the Scarborou
gh Gliding Club.
The report of t
hese events will be
found in the club
notices if receive
d
in
tim
e
to
be
incl
uded i
n this n
umber
of
the Journal.
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DEMONSTRATION OF SOARING
FLIGHT BEFORE
H R H THE PRINCE
OF
WALES BY
H E R R
KRONFELD ON 5th JULY.
H
R.H. The Prince of
Wales
h
ad for some
time
expressed a keen desire
to
s
ee Herr ivronfeld's
exhibitio
ns of
Soaring Flight,
and His
Royal High
ness had tried to attend
one of the public
De
monstrations. Unfortunately
his
engagements prevented this. The British
Gliding Association,
there
fore, a
rranged
to give
him
a private
Demonstration at a date, time, andi
place
convenient
to
His
Royal Highness. His
Royal Highness made it
a
condition
that
the Dem
onstration
should
be kept
as
secret as possible as he wished
to enjoy the
Demonstration unfettered
by a lar
ge
crow
d;
therefore
great care was taken to
prevent
a
le
akage
of info
rmation
as
to when
and
where this
Demonstration
shou
ld
ta
ke place. Ivinghoe Beacon was selected as bein
g
the
most
convenient site
and
arrangements were made for a D
emonstation to be given in the afternoon,
Tuesday
the
15th
July. Colonel
The Master of
Sempill, with his usual'
energy and
organ
ising power and tact, made
all
the
arrangements
with
His Royal Highness.
On the
mo
rning of
the
day
in
question Herr
Kronfeld,
The Master of Sempill,
and Mr.
Gord
on England went out
and
inspected the site,
arranging final details,
and finding
the
weat
her suitable, a telephone message was se
nt to
the
Royal
hou
se
hold statinlg th
at
everything
was in
readiness
. In the afternoon His Royal
Highness
was
flown down to Ivinghoe Be
acon,
landing
on
the
field at the bo
ttom of
the Beacon,
the machin
e being piloted by Lieut. Armour.
Here, he
was
m
et
by
Colonel The Master
of Sempill,
Sir Sefton B
rancker, who had flown down, and Air
Commodore
Bonham-Carter. Accompanying the
Prince
of
Wales
was
Lord Louis
Mountbatten. T
he
Pri
nce
proceeded to another
field
at
the bot
tom
of
the Beacon
and
there
had
presented to him,, Herr Kronfeld,
Mr.
Gordo
n England, Captain
Latimer Needham,
Mr.
Ashwell-Cooke, Mr. Lowe
Wylde, and
the Members of the
London Gliding
Club who had sportingly volunteered to give
up the day and act
as
a
Laun
ching
Team
. A Demonstration was then given
by Capt.
Needham
on
the
Zoglin, and Lieut. Fielden was then
offered
an opportunity to make
a
flight,
which w
as his
first experience
of aglider. A successful
short
fligh
t
was made
,
s
howing that
Lieut. Fie
lden
had
complete grasp of the
controls of
the
glider, and
it was
decided to
get him
to make a test for
his A
Cert
ificate
from
the top of
the Beacon. At t
his point of the
proceedings
His Royal Highness was
so
en
thu
siastic and
interested that he asked
Sir
Sefton Brancker
to lend his
machine and
pilot
for the purpose of goi
ng
over to
Hendon
Aerodrome
and picking
up
P
rince
George, who
m
the Prince
felt wouldbe
equally interested
to see the
gliding
.
Thi
s
was
at once done. Meanwhile the party proceeded to
the top of
the
Beacon.
Lieut. Fielden wasthenlaunched
for
his
A
Certificate, and made a very
p
retty, well
ju
dged, flight of 48 seconds
which
was
in
every w,ay
a
very fin
ished
pe
rformance. Shortly after this, Prince George arrived, and Herr
Kronfeld
took
up
the
Pruflin
g,
kindly
lent for the occasion
by
the Daily
Express,
and
although
there
was
not suff
icient
wind for
Soaring Flight,
gave
a very pretty exhibition,
gradually
losing
height but landing on
the
side of the Beacon
*
Lieu
t.
Fielden
was then
sent off on the Prufling to
make his fust flight on
that
m
achine,
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masterly
exhibition d
oing turns,
a
nd
finally
bringing the
machine to
rest
with
a
side-slip
ped
landin
g in afield at the bottom
of
the Beacon, after
having beep in
the air for 83 seconds.
Then Herr
Kronfeld
took
up
his Wien,
the
wind
being
only
just sufficient
to enab
le himto soar, and for several min
utes he
had
a
very
hard
struggle
to keep his
altitude.
A s
he
flew
backwards
and>
forwards
along the
face of
the
Beacon,
struggling
to gain height,
he carried on
a
conversa-
tion with the Prince of Wjales
,
much
to
His
Royal
Highness's
delight. Presently
Herr
Kronfeld w
as able to pick
up
an
area of
ascending
current which
enabled
him
to gain considerable
height,
and
he
made an
impressive flight lasting a
little
over
20 minutes,
and
landing on the spot fromwhich
he
had
taken off.
H.R.H.
T
he Prince of Wales, Princ
e George
and Lord
Louis
M
ountbatten
were
most
enthusi
astic,
and
thoroughly enjoyed every
minute of
the
Demonstra
tion. Herr
Kronfeld
was
able
to
show
His Royal
Highness some
of
the
diagrams
and illustrations for
his new
book,
in which
the Prince
was
ex
tremely
interested.
At
the
conclusion of
the
afternoon's proceedings Capt. Needham made
a flight
fro
mthe top of the Bea
con on
the Zoglin machine
for the edification of Prince
George, who had missed
that part
of the
performance.
Herr Kronfeld made
afurther flight o
n
the
Wien,
landing
in the field
beside
the
Prince's aeroplane, and
bid him
good-bye there.
Both the Prince
of
Wale
s
and Prince George
departed by air, and before doing;
so expressed their
keen appreciation of everything that they had
seen,
and
assured
everyone that
they
had
had
a
m
ost enjoyable afterno
on's
entertain
ment. They
were obviously impressed with
the
possi
bilities of S
oaring
Flight, and realised
its
national
significance. In all
t
he Princes spent about
three hours at
Ivinghoe,
and as far as could
be
ob
served,,
were
thoroughly interested in
all
proceedings
during the
whole of that time.
So well was the secret o
f
the
visit kept that
no
more than
a
handful of
on
lookers were
present,
and the
Princes
were able to move about with complete
freedom, which undoubtedly added
greatly
to
their
enjoyme
nt.
CLUB REPORTS.
D R IFFIELD AND DISTRICT GLIDING CLUB.
T
HE
Drifneld District Gliding
Club
was formed
by a small group of en-
timsiasts
with the idea of
operating
on
the
Yorkshire Wolds,
and it was
pro
posed to draw members from the towns
of
the
East Riding which
have
no
intention
of forming their
own local clubs.
From
the outset the
club has made
stead
y
progress
and
has obtained the
support of several well-known
and influential East Riding gentlemen.
It may
be
well to
mention the
namesof the off
icers
because all are
enthusiasts and any one
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of
them will
be
h
appy
to
supply details of
the constitution of
the
club to inten
ding
members. Sir Richard
Sykes,
Bart., P
resident;
Sir Arthur
Atkinson, Major
A.
N
. Braithwaite,
M
.P. G. Van Trump,
Esq.,
T.
J. Burton, Esq.,
Thos. Holtby,
E
sq., C. Wright,
Esq., Sqdn.
Ldr.
R. Harrison
, W
.
Mallin
son,
Esq.
, Vice-
Presidents;
Dr.
E.
H. Milner (Chair),
Professor Palmer,
Dr. Stenhouse Stewart,
R. C. Sice, Esq.,
H. E. Dixon, Esq.,
W.
W.
South
all, Esq., J. Young, E
sq.
hot:-, trea
s.),
an
d
R.
G. Spencer,
Esq.
hon. sec.),
Committee
.
Membership
is
not restricte
d and ladies
are
admitted to
eit
her
n
on-flying
or
ful
l
flying
membership and a participatio
n
in
the
w
eekly
Tuesday evening
discussions
which
are
hel
d at 8
p.m.
in
the Keys H
otel,
Driffield.
Sub
scription
is 3O/- plu
s 10/6 entrancefee.
Non-flying members 10/6.
It
was at first
de
cided
to
build
a glider of
Zogling
t
ype, and after
the secre
tary
ha
d personally consulted with Mr.
Howard-Flandersof
the British Gliding Asso
ciation, plans were
obtained
and
the probable time of const
ruction was
estimated.
Abo
ut this time t
he membership of the
clu
b
increased
to
the markw
here
p
urchase
of a g
lider
might
be
contemplated
an
d it was
d
ecided to
order a machine. Deli
very
of this
has
been
promised for themiddle of Ju
ly and enthusiasm
has
bee
n
s
timu
l
ated
both by
this fact and the
progress of
the
Scarboroug
h Club, who
are
com
paratively near
neighbours
.
Several su
ggested gliding sites in the di
strict
ha
ve
been
inspected
and
the
distri
ct around Shirendal
e
appears to
hold
rich
possibil
ities for sail-plane wor
k.
Up
to the time of writing
this article the
choice of
a ground for
elementary
gliding seems to
rest between a
fairly flat site at Nafferton and
a safe medium
hop field
near
C
oltam.
Since
the main objects of
the
Driffield
District Club
are
to
encoura
ge
air-
mindedness and inter
est
in ae
ronautics through the medium
of gliding, it
is
incu
mbent
upon us
to get
g
oing at
all costs and
show
the threshold huggers
that
gliders
really can
take
the
air
even in
the
hands
of
novices, and
in
a
perfectly
safe fashion too.
Hence the decision to p
urchase rather than build
our first
glider.
Much
interest has been
arouse
d
locally by
the
app
earance ofsev
eral
of
our
m
embers flying club pennants in
the
form
of saus
age
wind
indicatorsf
rom
some
conspicuous p
art of their cars or motor cy
cles.
We
unders
tand that one
memb
er
is
anxious
to
have one fixed
on his.
l
awn mower,
whilst another propo
sed
advertising the
club
by
ad
ding one to his push bike. W
e recommend
the
ide
a
o club sausage
pennants, not push
b
ike
advertiseme
nt to t
he
notice of
other
club
s as a so
urce of revenue. Lady me
mbers will find the
making
of
pen
nants a
simple mat
ter, the
lettering can be entrus
ted
to
the club publicity man.
The metal
fittings are
pie
to the
engineer
and the
treasurer
will
delight
in
count
ing
in
the dollar
s.
We wouldn't
like you to
think
that
we spend
all
our tim
e thinking
out
stunts
but
our
club toast
Better gliding an
d our corr
espondence tag Yours
a
ir-
mindedly may comme
nd them
selves
in
your
eye
s.
R. G. SPENCER, Hon
. Sec.
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TH E
LO
NDON G
LIDING
CLUB
.
HE
club
comm
enced
ope
rations
on
level g
round at G
uildiord
,
where on
the
first da
y
the
tw
o Club aircr
aft, a D
agnall
A.T.I,
and
a
German Zogling
were
f
lown by so
me twenty
m
embers
.
A
mongst
those
who fle
w
were
The
Ma
ster
of
Sem
pill;
Mr
. Gord
on
E
ngland,
C
hairman
of the
Britis
h
Glidin
g
A
ssociati
on;
Flight-L
ieuts.
Atch
erley an
d
S
tainfort
h, of S
chneide
r Trophy
fame;
Capt.
Needha
m,
Mr. Marcu
s Manton
,
and others.
After
these pre
liminary
trial
s
the C
lub moved
to Iving
hoe, nea
r
Tring, a
nd thenc
eforwar
d has m
ade steady
pro
g
ress.
Several m
ember
s qu
ickly qualif
ied for
their A
a
nd B
Glid
er
p
ilot
certifica
tes, a
nd so
at
thebeg
inning o
f
Jun
e a
Kegel Pru
fling
w
as add
ed to
the
C
lub flee
t. This
was se
nt
to theB.C.A
. dem
onstrati
ons at
Itford
Hill Sus
sex,
and
there
, afte
r a l
ittle instruc
tion
from
Her
r
Kronlfe
ld
Ca
pt. Nee
dham
took
up
th
e
Pr
ufling
an
d staye
d
up
for
one h
our
eleven
min
utes, t
hereby qu
alifying
for
the
first
C
glide
r pilot
's certi
ficate t
o be
issued
in
thi
scountry
.
Mr. Mar
cus
M
anton a
ndMr.
Buxton
bo
th t
ook up this
mac
hine afterw
ards,
and
also q
ualified
fo
r
thei
r C
cer
tificates
. Col.
the
M
aster
o
f Sem
pill anothe
r
C
lub
memb
er
a
lso
q
ualified
forthis
certif
icate the
followi
ng wee
k-end.
Sin
ce
our
return
to Ivin
ghoe
the instruc
tional
side
f
or the
benefit
of h ini
tio m
embers
has been
contin
ued, and
sev
eralsuch
memb
ersare
now ne
aring the
A certific
ate stan
dard.
At
the
time
of
writing
the
Club has jus
t orde
red a
two-se
ater mac
hine
from G
ermany
,
an
d it
is
hoped tha
t thiswill b
e
in comm
ission ve
ry
s
hortly.
The
Club no
w also
- has
its first
private
own
er, Capt
. Needh
am,
whose
sailplan
e,
Th
e Alba
tross,
was built
to
his own desig
n, an
d altho
ughthis
mach
ine has not
yet bee
n
f
ully tri
ed ou
t
o
wing
to the
weathe
r
c
ondition
s, it ha
s
a
jready
sho
wn
its
elf to be
a
very high-e
fficiency
low
w
ind sai
lplane.
No
repo
rt
of th
e
Cl
ub's
ac
tivities
would
be
com
plete
with
out pa
ying
tribute
to the l
arge amo
unt
of tim
e
which
has
been
given
to
the
Club
by
Oapt. Needham and
Mr.
Marcus Manton, and
it is
un
doubted
ly due
to
th
eir tre
mendou
s
effort
s
tha
t the Clu
b has
made su
ch rapi
d
p
rogress
.
Member
ship contin
ues
to increa
se
at
a s
atisfacto
ry rate
, but there
are
still a
n
umber
ofvac
ancies
before
the yearl
y
quot
a is
reached
, and th
ose intere
sted
should
com
munica
te wi
th the
S
ecretary
, th
e London
G
lidingClub
44
a
Dover
S
treet,
W.i.
THE
OXF
ORD ND
COUN
TY GLI
ING CL
U
T
HIS
Club was founded
in
April
of
this year, and since
its
formationhas
mad
e v
ery satisfa
ctory p
rogress.
It has
over
forty
ac
tive
memb
ers and
appl
ications
and
enquirie
s
ar
e bein
g
receive
d
dai
ly.
On t
he
for
mation
o
f
the Club
the cons
truction
of a
Dickso
n G
lider was
comme
nced an
d is now
nearin
g the sta
ges o
f co
mpletio
n.
T
he
Club ho
wever, also
has a Z
ogttng
Glider
and h
as
a
lready
commen
ced train
ing on
this
mac
hine.
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The first
flying
meeting was
held on
the
22nd of
June,
when
Mr. Marcus
Manton, of
the
London
Gliding
Club, very kindly came down
to
instruct and
demonstrate
on
the
use
of the
machine.
The Club
has
adopted the
policy of
making haste slowly
in regard
to
flying,
and members
without
previous
flyin.g
experience
are
given
ground
slides until they
have thoroughly mastered the controls, and have gained sufficient
confidence
to
take the machine
in
the air.
It
-was
thought that by adopting this policy the training would
be|
thorough,
and
that no
time would be lost
in
training
due
to accidents to the machine, anld the
resulting loss of time
spent
on
repairs.
The Club has met with considerable support
locally,
and has enjoyed
the
co
operation of both the public and
the press.
At present the
Club
is gliding at week-ends only, so as not to interfere
with
the progress in the construction of the Dickson Glider, on which m;any of
the
members spend all their free evenings. Mr. Marcus Manton very closely inspected
this machine
on the occasion of his
visit
to us, and it was described by him as being
one of the
best
examples of glider
construction
he
has yet seen.
The Secretary is Mr. E. Walpole, Brasenose Farm, Cowley,, Oxford, and
membership of the Club is open
to
any person
elected
by the members.
PORTSMOUTH
AND
SOUTHSE GLIDING CLUB
HE Portsmouth and Southsea
Gliding Club was
formed
on June
6th,
at a
Meeting
held
in
the Banqueting Room, Guildhall,
Portsmouth, by kind
permission
of
the Lord Mayor,
who
also presided at the Meeting.
We
had
the
pleasure
of the company
of
Mr. Gordon
England
at
this Meeting, who
gave us a very
interesting
and instructive address,
embracing all
the facts and
possibilities of a Gliding Club. We had the
additional pleasure
of a short address
by Herr
Robert Kronfeld, and he gave
us
most interesting information
in
connec
tion with
his
experiences in Soaring and
Gliding.
At the
conclusion
of
this Meeting
a resolution was passed and
carried
unani
mously that
Portsmouth
should have a Gliding Club.
We
received
numerous
applications
for
membership, and
held
our
second
Meeting
of Members only, oin
the
19th
June. Our Agenda consisted
of
adopting the Rules and regulations, and
this was
arranged
with
one or two minor adjustments. We were again fortunate
in
obtaining Herr Kronfeld to give
us
a lantern lecture,
which
was thoroughly
enjoyed by everyone, as we
had
a very enthusiastic
Meeting
of would be Gliders.
Our first Glider was
on view at
this)
meeting,
and
it w'as
proposed and carried
tjhat
we
commence our new sport on the following Monday, 23rd June.
Portsmouth has therefore commenced
this
new
sport with
great
enthusiasm,
and
we hope we shall be well to the fore at
no
distant date.
We have now
made numerous flights, and our
Membership totals
practically
125, so that
we
hope to be doing great things in the future.
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THE C H
ANNEL G LI
D ING CLUB
Contributed
y
Eric D .
Palmer Channel
Gliding Club.
T
HE
Chan
nel Gliding
Club is
now firmlyestab
lished
wit
h a membership
of
over
a
hun
dredmembers.
The
Club is
in
a very strong
financ
ial
positi
on
mainly
owingf
to
the manner
in
w
hich the demon
stration
on
Ju
ne
29th,
at
whch Herr Kronfeld
and Herr M
agersuppe gave
sail-planing exhibitions
,
was
o
rganised. Th
e meeting
showeda
pr
ofit
of over^40 and
a
contribu
tion to
the
funds
of
T
he British
Gliding
-
Association
was forwar
dedto M
r. Gordon
Eng
land.
In reply,
Mr. Gordon England
complimented
the Co
mmittee upon the
splend
id
organisat
ion,
and consid
ered the m
eeting the most
ably conducted
yet held in
this
country.
The
att
endance was
upwards
of 8,000.
The
history of the form
ation
of
the C
lub
mak
es interestin
g reading.
At
a
Committee meet
ing of the Folkesto
ne Motor
Club h
eld on April yth, 1930
the
qu
estion of gliding was raised
.
As
Honor
ary Secretary,
Mr
. E. D. Palmer
was
asked
to
obtain
a
ny
inf
ormation
a
vailable and
repor
t
the fin
dings at the next
meet
in
g. This meetin
g, held on May yth,
after a
lon
g
discussion
on the
information
laid before them,
obtai
ned
from the
E.G.A.,
passed the fol
lowing res
olution,
...
That the for
mation
of a
Glidin
g Section or
Club is not within the
p
rovince
of this Committe
e, owing
to
the
in
definite
initi
al expense, and
not coming
within
the obj
ects
of
th
e
C
lubas defined
in
the
Rules, an
d
the
prob
ability
o
f the
under
taking
becoming
too large
to become inco
rporated
in
the
Club. This
Committee
w
ill
give
every assistan
ce
to assist
the
formation
of
a
Gliding
Club.
About this
time
also
o
ther gliding
enthusiast
s
had
been making
progress
with
th
e buildin
g of a primary
glider.
Corpo
ral M
anuel,
of
the
25th (fighter)
Squadron,
R.A.F.
Hawkinge,
near
Folkestone,
had
constructed
a
primary
type
glider
of his o
wn
design. W
hen comp
leted, Flying
Officer F. Fox-Barrett,
of
the
sa
me squadr
on,
was
towed off b
ehind
a
mo
tor
car at
a speed o
f
a
pproximately
5 m.p.h. U
nfortunately, howe
ver, things
did not work
out
according to
plan,
and Fox
Barrett fell
15
feet
(without the g
lider), and was
transporte
d to
th
e sick
b
ay, there
to have
several sp
linters removed from
his eye, and a
length o
f piano
wire taken
out of
his nose.
It
was at
a
dance he
ld at the Aerod
rome where the
above two par
ties, became
c
ognisant
of each o
ther's
separate
existence.
Mr. C. S. Samuels,
ofthe Folk
e
ston
e Motor
Club,
in the cou
rseof a c
onversation with
Flight-Lieuten
ant
L.
H.
Stew
art,
R.A.F. when talk
ing the matter ove
r, decided to get toge
ther the pe
ople
interested
at a further meeting.
On May
i2th,
there
me
t
a
few friends in t
he persons of R
. T. Moore, Chairman,
Folkestone Motor
Club;
E. D. Palmer, Hon
. Secretary; C.
S
Samu
els,
Captain;
F. H. Worrad,
all
of the Motor
Club; toge
ther with Flight-
Lieutenant
L. H.
St
ewart, R.A.F.,
H.Feather,
and D. G. Armstron
g. It was
decidedto go a
head
w
ith
the
formation
of
a Gliding
Club, and Flight-L
t.
Stewa
rt,
a
j
ovial
personal
ity,
was appointed
tempor
ary Hon. Secreta
ry. The
nex
t most necessa
ry
thing
b
eing
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publici
ty,
M
r. E. D. Palm
er,
by
virtue
of
his press con
nection, was enrolled
Hon.
Press
Secretary.
Notices
f
orthwith a
ppeared in
the press from H
erne
Ba
y in the
east,
round
to
Hastings in the
west,
not forge
tting th
e
Lon
don Press. In
response
ov
er
80
applications w
ere receivedfor
further information
, and a Gene
ral Mee
ting
wa
s
de
cided upon on
th
e
lines
ou
tlined
by
the
E.G.A.
Th
en came Itford
The E.G.A.
wrote
extending an invitat
ion
to
the
pro
posed new club
to attend.
Our Secretary
made prompt
applicatio
n
for th
e
necessary tickets;
owing
to
private reaso
ns, b
usiness,
etc
.,
al
l could
not go who
w
ished. Eventually
L. H. Stewart, E.
D. Palmer,
F. Fox-Barrett,
C.
H.
Anne
ss,
and W. Ga
rnons Williams
set out wit
h camp beds
and gear to Itford
. While
there
they made
the
ir presenc
e known, and aft
er talks with Mr.
E
.
C. Gordon Eng
land,
that
e
ver
o
ptimistic
enthusiast, and
with
Her
r K
ronfeld, and with
the other
Clubs
' memb
ers, our
Club
seemed
nearer materialis
ation.
It
is well
known what
happened at Itford.
But there is one thing
not so well
known. On Sunday
morning,
Herr
Kronfeld took
Fox-Barrett
ashis pupil, and
after thr
ee short hops
pronounced him
fi t
to
take
his
A
licence. By
the
courtesy
of
the Kent
Gliding Club, who a
llowed
their ''Zogling to
be used,
Fox-Barret
t made his gli
de
of 32
seconds, and
obtained
the
licence,
witnessed
by
Mr.
Gordon Englan
d and Herr Kr
onfeld.
Returning to
Folkeston
e
full of
renewed en
thusiasm
the search now led
to
sites, and
e
very
evening the
Committee were
out prospecting the
surrounding
country, f
or
while
at Itfor
d
w e
had strained
every effort
to
obtain
a
simil
ar
demon
strat
ion at Folkes
tone, and hadno
t
been
entirel
y unsuccessful.
On June 23rd
we wer
e
i
nformed that a
demonstration was
to be held
atFolk-
stone
on
July 5th a
nd
6
th. The C
ommittee
w
as
hurriedly
called
together
and pla
ns
made for
the
wor
k to be done.
All section
s
were
catered
for
: T
ransport,
catering,
advertising,
gr
ound
staff,
car
park, etc.
The
ver
y next morning,
however, a
telep
hone
m
essage was receiv
ed stating that
the demo
nstration was tobe held
one
week
earlier, June 29th, only
five days a
head.
T
his meant real
hustle. By
the courtesy of
Mr. H.
Southall,
a c
lubheadquarter
s was open
ed at th
e
Queen's
Hotel, Folkestone
,
w
here the
Committee was in
constant attendan
ce. Messr
s.
Martin Walter
Co.,
the
well
-known motor agents,
put
the
whole o
f their
trans
port
and publicityorganisation
at
our disposal.
The
arrival of Herr
K
ronfeld
on
the
Tuesday
to
select
the
site
, and a visit
by
Mr. G
ordon England
on
Wednesday, whe
n he
atte
ndeda
Commi
ttee
meetin
g,
and gav
e most
valua
ble
adv
ice,
were
a
mong the outsta
nding e
vents
of
the
precedin
g
w
eek.
No
dem
onstration
coul
d be ar
ranged
for Saturday in
vi
ew of
the
counter
attraction in
the
way of
the Hendon Air Pag
eant, but Herr Mag
ersuppe decided
t
o fly to beco
me
accustomed
to
the
country.
At 4-30
the Professo
r was ready
and Magersu
ppe was laun
ched into the a
ir. His inten
tion
was
to
make
an
hour
's
flight, but
this intention suffere
d rev
ision; making s
everal flights
along th
e
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hil
ls to
the west,
Ma
gersuppe
then mad
e
a
fl
ight s
traight out ov
er the town
,an
d
gained
a poin
t
i
mmediate
ly over
the Metropo
le Hotel
on the
W
est
Lea
s. Retu
rn
ing in
an easte
rly
dir
ection
over th
e town to
th
e Dove
r
Hill, h
e
gradu
ally lo
st
heig
ht, but
at W
indy Corn
er h
e
fo
und
a strong up
current,
and
gain
ing
height again
continued
soaring
and sail
planing along
the
hills
to
the west
of the
to
wn,
at times
gain
ing
a
hei
ght of 1,50
0 feet.
This w
as
a
most h
appy a
nd encou
raging
inaugu
rationof
th
e
me
eting.
But
more w
as t
o come; M
agersup
pe dec
ided to
m
ake
a landi
ng in the tow
n its
elf, an
d
chose
the
Canter
buryRoad
Recr
eationGround,
a piece of flat
gra
ssland, approxi
mate
ly100 y
ards sq
uare, sur
rounded
by
h
ouses 35
feet
high.
Magersu
ppeh
ad
tobank sharp
ly
to mak
e
a
landing
in wh
ich
t
he st
arboard
wing
t
ip
justskim
med
the
surface
of
t
he gro
und suf
ficiently
to brin
g the wh
ole
pl
ane round
in
a compl
ete
half-circl
e,
c
oming
to
a
st
andstill
almost
in
t
he cen
tre o
f
the
ground
, truly
a
wizard
exhibitio
nof
s
kill.
Sunday's
flying was wholly
of
the
exhibition
type, being
{ca rried
out
by
He
rr
K
ronfeld in
the
W
ien
a
nd M
agersupp
e in the
Pro
fessor.
The
atten
dance w
as over
8,00
0, andperfe
ctw
eatherprevailed
, thoug
h a
stron
ger
w
ind wou
ld
ha
ve
been apprec
iated
by
th
e pilots. Ov
er sixty
new
m
embers
wer
e
m
adeat the
meet
ing,
a
nd large
n
umbers
of
ap
plication
forms w
ere issued
,
tog
ether
withp
amphlets
dealing
w
ith
th
e objec
ts of t
he Club.
Tuesd
ay, July ist
.
The
Public
M
eeting
was
held at the T
own Hal
l,
F
olkestone
,
under the
chairma
nship
of
A
. Dalla
s
Br
ett,
Esq., J.P
., support
ed by
H
err Kron
feld,
Herr M
agersup
pe,
R.
T
. Moor
e, Esq., and
a full
at
tendance
of mem
bers,
andthe
hall was
packed w
ith
local and c
ounty
residents.
T
he
slides of
the
B.G.A
. were
shown and
explaine
d to the
audience
, and
followed
by
th ei
sho
wing
of
Herr
Kronfeld's
own slides
brought
by
him from Germany, which were most
highly instr
uctive.
At th
e
close of th
e meeting over
3
0
ne
w member
swer
e en
rolled, a
nd
the
Ge
neral
M
eeting
was
arrang
ed to be
held at the
Queen's
Hotel
on Friday
, July
4th, at 8 p.
m.
Friday
,
July
4th T
he Fi
rst Genera
l
M
eeting
of the C
hannel
Gliding C
lub
w
as h
eld at the Queen
's Hotel,
Fol
kestone, with
R.
T. Moore
,
Es
q.,
in
th
e chair.
Mr.
W. E
. Cook pres
ented the state
ment
of
acc
ounts
to da
te, sho
wing
a
balan
ce
of
ca
shin hand,
af
ter
meeti
ng
all liabilit
ies, o
f approxi
mately
110 Th
is fig
ure
incl
uded subs
criptions
receive
d
to
date, but
it
was poin
ted
out
that no por
tion of
any
subs
cription
h
ad been
called upon
to pay
any
expens
e incurred
b
y
the
Club
.
The meeting
on
t
he previ
ous Sund
ay
h
ad resul
ted
in a
comp
lete
financia
l
s
uccess,
an
approximate
profit of
^45
resulting,
out
of
which it was proposed tosend
a
third
to the B
.G.A. A le
tter was re
ad fro
m M
r. E.
C
.
Gordon Engla
nd comp
li
m
enting the
Club
on the most
efficie
nt mann
er
in
which
t
he dem
onstratio
n
was
arranged
and contr
olled, a
dding
tha
t
it was the
m
ost successf
ul and
c
ompletely
organ
ised dem
onstration
held
in this
country
to
da
te. A
letter fro
m
Colone
l
the
M
aster
of
Sempill c
onveyed
his
g
ood wish
es for the
Club's
success,
and thanked
the C
lub for the hospi
tality
extended
to th
e
visit
ors
and s
taffs.
Lettersfr
om
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prom
inent members o
f the count
y
had
been received
, even
up
t
o the eve
ning post
o
n
the
da
y
of the meeting,
and
in
v
iew of approa
ching some
of these pe
rsonages
to ser
ve on the Club
executi
ve, it
wa
s resolved
to hold
over the e
lection of the
Comm
ittee
for the follow
ing yea
r till
t
he next G
eneral Meeting,
which
would
be
a
special
meeting
to
be held on
Friday,
July nth
at
the
Queen s
Hotel,
Folkestone,
at 8 p
.m.
K ENT GLIDIN
G C L U B
.
T
HE
Ken
t Glid
ing
Clu
b
w
as
formed by a small
band
of enthuiasts
on Jan
uary
4th,. 1930. These
member
s,
unde
r the leade
rship of M
r. C
.
H. Lowe
-
Wylde,
designed, built and
flew
successfully
the
first
Primary
Training
Glider in
Great
B
ritain. T
he Club have
taken th
eir
machin
e on
a specially
c
onstructed
trailer
to
v
arious parts
of
the
cou
ntry and
at Ivingho
e,
B
ucks,
Mr.
Lowe-Wylde
gained
the d
istinction
of
e
arning the first
Glider
Pilot s Ce
rtificate to
be awarded
in England.
The Club has now
obtained
a perm
anent trai
ning
sit
e
at Lenham,
Kent, and which
is only
a
few
hundred
yards from
the
m
ain
London-
Folke
stone road.
A
lice
nsed aerodrom
e adj
oins the gr
ound and giv
es facilities
for
flying
vis
itors
to la
nd. Glid
ing
is
carried
out he
re
ev
ery Sun
day, w
eather per
mitting.
A
charg
e
of i
s.
is
made to
members
for
each flight.
This charg
e includes
i
nstruction.
The Entrance
Fee to
the Club
is ios., the annua
l
s
ubscription
for
Flying Members
is
and to
Non-Flying
Member
s ios.
A Constructio
nal
Secti
on
has
been fo
rmed to
effect repair
s
to
the present machines
an
d also to build
mac
hines of
a more advanced
type. Th
e Club, whi
ch
is
affi
liated to the British
G
liding As
sociation, took an
active
part in the Sail
Plane Me
etings
organised at
West
Firle, Portsmou
th and Folkes
tone. At th
e firs
t of these meetings,
w
e
took
our
training m
achine and m
ade
man
y successfu
l
demonstra
tions. On Sund
ay
evening
the machine was
unfortu
nately somewhat badly
smashed
and
the opinion
of
many
was that it
was
bey
ond r
epair
by
the
followin
g
day
. How
ever b
y
a
great
effort on the
part o
f certain mem
bers, by
work
ing all
through
the
night the
Glider wa
s
repaired b
y
noon
on the
next day
an
d
was again read
y for wor
k.
On Frid
ay, May 3oth
the club wa
s
fortunate in s
ecuring the services
of
Herr
Kron
feld, who
made his fir
st
pu
blic
appearance
in
England
b
y giving a h
ighly
interesting
and
instructive
lecture on Gliding and
Soaring, illustrated
by
lantern
slides.
The
Lecture
was
held
at the Corn
Exchange,,
Maidstone
, and was
at
tended
by a large number
of Club Member
s a
nd the
general public. Th
e President
Dr. White
head Reed,
the well-known
priva
te
ae
roplane
owner, was
in the chair
and introd
uced H
err Kronfeld.
Th
e
H
on. Secreta
ry
of
the
Kent Club is
Mr.
R
.
B. Haynes
, of 14, Ki
ng Street, Mai
dstone, who wo
uld be
pleased
to
forward
particulars,
etc.
,
to
any
p
arty
who
may
be intereste
d.
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R
EPOR T
ON
TH
E AC T
IVITIE
S OF
TH E
IM PE
R IA L COLL
EG E
G L
IDING
CLUB
.
The Im
perial
College
Gliding
Club was
first
thought
of
in
February.
The
Club
isopen
to
all student
s of the Im
perial C
ollege.
A
glider
has
b
een
designed
full
draw
ings pr
oduced
and
constru
ction begun.
Th
e mem
bers pro
pose
to hold
a cam
p
during Septem
ber.
Sever
al of the
membe
rs are moto
r p
ilots and
two me
mbers are
lea
rning to
g
lide a
t
th
e
Wa
sser-
kuppe
.
The Club
has eve
ry reason
to
h
ope
for succes
s
as most
of the
membe
rs are
keen
on the spor
t of glid
ing and
on the c
onstruc
tional
work.
P. ADOR
YAN H
on. Secre
tary.
F
O R T H C
O M I N
G EV
ENTS
.
The W
iltshir
e Ligh
t
Ae
roplane
and
Glid
er Clu
b
pr
oposes
holding
a G
lider
Meetin
g
on
Oc
tober
4
and
5.
T
hey h
ave a sp
lendid site
equ
ivalent
to
the w
ell-
kno
wn Itfo
rdHill an
d
with av
ailable wind
i
n
n
early eve
ry direc
tion.
They
have
also a good
grad
ed
a
rea for
safe
Zoglin
g
c
lose at
hand.
There
is space
of about
65
acres for
the u
se of gu
ests
arrivi
ng by ai
r
and
a
car park
ingspa
ce ad
joining
of
ab
out equa
l area
.
The
Club is leav
ing
nothing
undon
e to
mak
e for the com
pletion
of
a
su
ccess
f
ul m
eeting. The
Presiden
t of the
Club is
C
. J.
Crss
, Esq.
Ch
urch
Place
S
windon
Wilts
.,
fro
m w
hom al l
p
articula
rs ca
n
b
e obtain
ed.
V
ISIT
O F
BR
ITISH
DELE
G TE
S
TO
S
ECOND
SESSIO
N
O
F
T
HE
IN
TERN
TION
L C O M
M ISSI
O N FO
R TH
E ST
UDY
O F
M O T O R
LESS
F L I G H
T HE
LD AT
FR
ANKF
URT 14th
JUN
E 1930.
F
RA
NKFUR
T was rea
ched
at 3 p.
m.
on
F
riday,
1 3 1
1
Jun
e and
an
imm
ediate visit wa
s mad
e to
the O
ffices of
the
R
hon Ro
ssitten G
esellsch
aft
at
10 Sc
hubertst
rasse. Her
e D
r.
G
raf V
.
Y
senberg
recei
ved us
very
kindly
told
us the arra
ngemen
ts made
for
the
follow
ing
day
and
g
ave us
our
offici
al
i
nvitatio
n cards
.
The
actua
l M
eeting was
held
in th
e
Club
fur Handel
und I
ndustrie
,
12
Miguel
strasse
at
10 a.m
., and
repr
esentativ
es were
prese
nt
fr
om B
elgium
Ger
many Hun
gary,
En
gland
France Italy
Hol
land and
Spain.
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The actua
l
proc
eeding
saregiven
in the
a
ccomp
anyin
g
d
raft m
inute
s, an
d it was
inter
esting
to
not
e
th
rough
out
th
e
whole
S
essio
n, t
heexte
nt of th
e int
erest
arou
sed
am
ong
the G
erman
repre
senta
tives b
y the
entr
y
o
f Gre
at
Britai
n
i
nto the
move
ment.
The
Meeting was concluded
at i
p.m.,
and
we
were
taken
to
the
Winter
Gar
dens fo
r
l
unch.
Th
e Pa
rtyw
as divid
ed
u
p
i
nto gr
oupsby
mutu
al cons
ent,
andsp
ent
mos
t of th
e interv
ening
per
iods dis
cussin
g p
oints
of thei
r
o
wn
part
icular
inte
rests.
H
aving
as a pa
rticul
ar
object
the
ass
imilat
ion
o
f
as
mu
ch
tec
hnica
l
inf
ormati
on
as pos
sible, I
ma
naged
to f
orm
our ow
n grou
p
consi
sting
of Dr.
Usinu
s;
H
err
Knott,
Instr
uctor
o
f the Rho
n Ro
ssitten
G
esellsc
haft
and rec
ently
return
ed fro
m a i2
-mont
hs sta
y in A
meric
a; He
rr
Rots
child,
actin
g as
Solici
tor
to
t
he
A
ssem
bly, b
ut
w
ho
also w
as
extre
melya
ctive in
interp
reting
when
misc
oncep
tions
occu
rred;
Mr.
Hayne
s a
nd
m
yself.
After
lun
ch,
and
w
hile
th
e main
par
ty w
ent
o
ff
to the
Stad
ium, we
vis
ited th
e Offic
es
of
Flug
sport
at
t
he
in
vitatio
n
of
Dr.
Usin
us
an
d
spen
t
s
ome
tim
e
discu
ssing
the de
sign
of
G
liders
a
nd
Sail
-plane
s,
the
organ
isation
an
d
oper
ation of
the Mov
emen
t and
meth
ods
o
f
trainin
g
pu
pils.
W
e re
joined
the o
thers
at
th
e Stadium for tea, then
returned
to
our Hotels
with
instr
uction
s
to
re-ass
emble
fo
r
Dinn
er
at
Migu
elstra
sse
at 7 30
p.m.
On
p
resent
ing ou
rselve
s
we
w
ereme
t by D
r.
Georg
ii, who
i
ntrodu
ced
us
to
M
r. B
osanq
uet a
nd
M. Bille
oocq,
the
Brit
ish and
Fren
ch C
onsuls
resp
ective
ly.
F
or som
e
time I w
as
enga
ged in
co
nvers
ation with
the
la
tter an
d
was c
onsid
erably
surpr
ised
at
h
is
knowl
edgeof
Avia
tion
matte
rs.
Durin
g di
nner
a
te
legram
w
as receiv
ed,
in
formin
g
us
o
f th
e fact
th
at
Colo
nel
the
Maste
r of Se
mpill
had qua
lified
for
hi
s C P
ilot's
licenc
e.
Th
is info
rmatio
n
was
receiv
ed
with
great
int
erest by
thewho
le a
ssemb
ly.
Spee
ches
were
made
by
Dr. Kot
zenbe
rg,
Pres
ident
of
t
he Rhon
-Ross
itten
Gese
llscha
ft, who we
lcomed
the
delega
tes on
thei
r be
half, Mr.
Bosa
nquet,
Dr
.
Geo
rgii, who
p
ointed
out
the sign
ifican
ce
o
f
ho
lding t
his as
sembl
y in Frank
furt,
wh
ereso
ma
ny im
porta
nt
functi
ons
h
ad
eith
er ori
ginate
d
or
been
deve
loped,
M .
Bil
lecocq
,
an
dM. M
aurice
K
ahn, wh
o re
plied on
beh
alf of the
deleg
ates.
I
n con
versa
tion w
hich fol
lowed
for a
p
eriod
of
some
hour
s,
w
e
learne
d
from
Dr. V
an de
r Ma
as
(wh
o
I had
met
two
year
s ago
at
the Roy
al
Dutc
h Aer
onaut
ical
Resea
rch
Labo
ratory
, Am
sterda
m)
th
at
th
e
G
liding
Mo
vemen
t
i
n
Holl
and was
no
t
likely
to
bea
stro
ng
o
ne
ow
ing to
the ab
sence
of go
od sit
es a
nd adequ
atefin
ance.
T
hat S
ignor
Mu
ssolini
wa
s perso
nally in
terest
ed
in the M
oveme
nt in
Italy
and
hadstate
d
that
it
h
d
to deve
lop;
and
fro
m
He
rr Knott
th
at
theMov
emen
t w
as
n
ot dev
elopin
g
sa
tisfact
orily
in Ame
rica due
to
1
More
th
an one
Body
try
ing
to g
overn
it, and
neith
er w
as ye
t of
ficially
rec
ognise
d.
2. Th
e tend
ency to
ma
ke every
d
emon
stratio
n and
m
eetin
g
a
stunt
of
a
se
nsatio
nal nat
ure
for P
ress
Publ
icity.
3.
Prem
ature
atte
mpts
to
ioiv u
nsuit
ble m
achin
es
b
y ca
r and
ae
roplan
e.
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Ur
.
G
eorg
ii l
ater m
ade
arr
ange
men
ts f
or
us to
vi
sit
the
Was
serk
upp
e an
d
prom
ise
d th
e esco
rt of
H
err
K
not
t.
Le
avin
g
Fra
nkf
urt
at
9 a.m
.
on
Sun
day w
e r
each
ed Ge
sfeld
,
the
nea
rest
villa
ge
t
o the
W
ass
erku
ppe
, a
t 12
-30,
lun
ched
, th
en p
roce
eded
.
The aft
erno
on
was
spe
nt in
th
e
met
eoro
logi
cal a
nd phot
ogra
phic
sect
ion, a
s
no
gl
iding
wa
s in
p
rogr
ess.
O
n
t
heMon
day
w
sp
ent
the
mo
rnin
g wat
chin
g
ab in it
io tr
ainin
g, i
nspe
ctin
g
work
sho
ps
and h
ang
ars,
and
arra
nge
men
ts
mad
e
for th
e
techn
ical
inst
ructi
on of
pup
ils.
The
mos
t ev
ident
po
int
was
t
he
wide
resou
rces
th
ey
po
sses
sed, a
ltho
ugh
they
hado
bvio
usly
been
obta
ined
rath
er by
g
reat
eff
ort
th
an by
la
vish
e
xpen
ditu
re.
W
e p
aid pa
rticu
lar
atte
ntio
n t
o th
e
p
art
de
vote
d
to
rep
air
w
ork,
an
d we
re im
p
ress
edb
y
th
e goo
dwo
rkma
nsh
ip an
d
tho
roug
hne
ss of
t
he rep
airs.
A
s mig
ht
bee
xpec
ted,
h
owe
ver,
the
nuc
leus o
f
the repa
ir
se
ction
we
re skill
ed
craf
tsme
n
e
mpl
oyed
b
y th
e R
hon
Ro
ssitte
n
Ges
ellsc
haft.
During
the
morning,
and
in
the
short
space
of
an
hour
or
two,
three
training
mac
hine
s of
the
Zo
gling
type
were
ba
dly
dam
age
d, but
t
wo o
f th
em w
ere so
on
read
y for
se
rvic
eag
ain,
sim
ply
ow
ing to
the
nu
mbe
rof
spa
re pa
rts r
eadi
ly a
vail
ab
le. T
his
sho
ws th
at
u
nles
s an
ordi
nary
Clu
b
pos
sess
es
ex
cepti
onal
ly
good
reso
urce
s, bo
th in
tim
e an
d mon
ey,
it
is no
t g
oin
g to
be
abl
e to w
iths
tand
the
str
ain
of
repe
ated
sm
ashe
s if it
un
dert
akes
p
rim
ary
train
ing
work
.
A
par
t from
p
upils
of
th
e Rh
on R
ossi
tten
G
esel
lscha
ft, a f
ew l
ocal
Cl
ubs us
e
th
e Was
serk
upp
e a
s a
Glid
ing
G
roun
d, b
ut
appa
rent
ly al
l
thei
r Me
mbe
rs can
a
lread
y ha
ndle
a
Zog
ling
ef
ficie
ntly,
whi
ch
m
ake
s
the
ir
con
tinu
ed
e
xiste
nce
e
con
omic
ally
pos
sible
.
A
larg
e am
oun
t o
f exp
erim
enta
l a
nd
dev
elop
men
t
w
ork
is
se
para
tely c
arrie
d
out by
the
Rhon
Ro
ssitte
n
Ges
ellsc
haft
, an
don
einter
estin
g
ma
chin
e of
the
tail-l
ess
var
iety
wa
s
se
en
i
n
cour
se of
cons
truct
ion.
It
had p
asse
d through
the
initial
s
tage
s of m
ode
l
and
glid
ere
xist
enc
e ha
d been
prog
ress
ively
de
velo
ped,
and
wa
s
now
as
sum
ing fo
rm
as
a p
owe
r-dr
iven
mach
ine.
He
re
a
gain
,
the
wo
rkma
nsh
ip
w
as e
xcep
tion
ally
good
.
Ina
ha
nga
r con
taini
ng
po
wer-
drive
n m
achi
nes w
ere
to
be seen
man
y of
thei
r
e
xpe
rime
nts in