GLIDING CLUB IN R.N.Z.A.F.
First, At Wigram. Has Two Aircraft
The Royal New Zealand Air Force's first and only gliding club, organised at Wigram about 10 months ago. has recently bought two aircraft—a Tiger Moth and a Rhonlerohe glider. The Tiger Moth was bought from a private owner at Rar.furly, and the glider from the Central Otago Gliding Club. When the club was formed it had to hire its aircraft from the Canterbury Aero Club, but in its short period of existence the club’s 50 members have raised enough to buy its own aircraft.
Gliding clubs attached to air force stations are fairly common in Britain.
The club is organised by Flight Lieutenant L. J. Thompson, officer in charge of the aviation medicine unit at Wigram.
Plans are now being made to run a pageant at Wigram in March in conjunction with the Canterbury Gliding Club.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29739, 5 February 1962, Page 20
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