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Recent Progress in Gliding*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

A. H. Yates
A. H. Yates*
Affiliation:
formerly College of Aeronautics, now Principal, City of Bath Technical College
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Gliding as a sport dates from the early nineteen twenties when German pilots, banned by the Treaty of Versailles from constructing or flying powered aircraft, turned their attention to constructing sailplanes. Their progress was remarkable and, after visits by some of their best pilots to England in 1929, many clubs were formed here together with an association of clubs, the British Gliding Association. Many of these clubs lasted only a few months but by 1937 a few were in a strong position and in November 1937 Squadron Leader (now Group Captain) Buxton gave a lecture to the Society reviewing developments up to that date. Developments in gliding are well recorded in the Journal of the B.G.A., Gliding, and in the other aeronautical periodicals, but it is proper that the Society should record periodically progress made in this branch of flying.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 523 , July 1954 , pp. 447 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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Footnotes

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Based on a Section Lecture given to the Society on 17th February 1953

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