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FLIGHT, JANUARY 9, 1931 GLIDING THE PORTSMOUTH and Southsea Gliding Club has nowended its first year of work. Seventeen " A " licenceshave been obtained and many more members are ready to pass their tests on the first available opportunity. PortsdownHill above Wymering, is, of course, only suitable when the wind is in certain southerly directions and the club is there-fore greatly indebted to Capt. Else who has allowed them to use Windmill Hill, and thereby enable them to glide whenthe wind is from the north. The club's policy has always been one of " slowness and surety " and the number of " A "licences gained would appear to have thoroughly justified this policy. W1LEATHER was particularly unfavourable for the three-day gliding meeting which had been arranged at Flixton at the end of last month by the Northern Gliding Clubs.Both snow and rain provided adverse conditions. Inter-club contests had, therefore, to be abandoned. At one time,however, a south-westerly wind made the use of a neighbouring site, Scalby Nab, feasible, and from here Herr Groenhoff wasable to soar in the Scarborough Club's two-seater machine. Herr Groenhoff is the test pilot from the German GlidingSchool at the Wasserkuppe and is taking the place of Herr Magersuppe while the latter is on holiday. It is hoped tohold the inter-club competitions, for which many trophies and prizes have been given, at a later date. A NEW Gliding Club has been formed by the employees of** the Bradford City Tramways. The membership is already over 40 and Mr. Marchbank, an ex-R.A.F. pilot and nowCashier at the Tramway Central Office, will be the Instructor. COUTH AFRICAN Gliding clubs have decided that amalga- mation will be the best way of overcoming many of their difficulties, and the Western Province Gliding Club is, there- fore, joining forces with the Capetown Flying Club. I ONDON GLIDING CLUB—A new system has beeninstituted which will differentiate between pilots and beginners, whereby when there are sufficient of each type,two machines will be operated, one for an instructional group and one for an advanced group. The latter will be composedof all those who hold " A," " B " or " C " licences. In the event of an insufficient number turning out to operate thetwo machines, the two groups will take priority on alternate Sundays, starting with an instructional group on Sunday,January 11, and an advanced group on the following Sunday, and so on. The lecture which had been arranged on Wednes-day, January 28, by Mr. C. H. Lowe-Wylde has been un- avoidably postponed. On January 29 there will be a lecturebefore the Royal Aeronautical Society at the Royal Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphi, at 6.30 p.m., by HerrLippisch, on the " Development and Construction of Sail- planes and Gliders." Herr Lippisch is the designer of HerrKronfeld's " Wien," the " Fafnir " and many other well- known gliders and his lecture should be of the greatest valueto all those interested in gliding. "THE SAILPLANE CLUB.— During the past two week-ends1 the club's activities have been directed to the erection of their new hangar. A large amount of interesting data hasnow been gathered as to the size and position of the various air currents round the gliding site at Smalldole, by means oftests with models, which Mr. John Welding has been carrying out. Flights of great length have been attained, and he hopedin time to be able to chart the whole of the country round their gliding site. -THE ASSOCIATION of Northern Gliding Clubs.—The' * weather during the Christmas holidays has, generally speaking, been too bad for gliding, but on January 4 theIlkley, Harrogate and Leeds clubs were able to put in a considerable amount of work on The Aircraft Clubs' ground,a fairly strong northerly breeze making flights of two minutes' duration possible. The machines in use were a Reynard, aZogling and a Dickson. The latter was built by the Aircraft Club, Harrogate, to FLIGHT drawings, and it is interesting tonote that its performance has made it one of the most popular machines of its type, even in winds of up to 30 m.p.h. •"THE INTERNATIONAL Commission for Studies in Motor-* less Flight which was founded in Frankfurt last June, recently held its first meeting in Paris with Professor Georgiias chairman. It was decided that international glider com- petitions should be held annually from 1932 in one of thecountries represented on the Commission which are at the moment, Germany, England and France. Four sub-commit-tees were formed ; a Scientific Committee under Professor Magaun, of the College de France ; a Technical Committeeunder Professor Hoff, Director of the German Experimental Institute for aeronautics ; a Sports Committee under Mr.Gordon England, of the British (Hiding Association, and a Propaganda Committee under M. W'olff, of the Belgian AeroClub. o <•> LIKE THE REAL THING : A photograph of the diorama of Croydon aerodrome exhibited by Anglo- American Oil Co. at the recent Motor Show. The extraordinary excellence of this piece of work is too obvious to need comment. 33
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