GLIDING IN BRITAIN
NATIONAL COMPETITIONS RECORDS EXPECTED TO BE BROKEN (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Ist August. The National gliding competitions take place during the next ten days near Thirsk, Yorkshire, and many pilots will take part, several flying in succession in twenty or thirty machines, which will bo available. It is generally expected that the British records for height, distance, and tlie present duration record of eight hours will he broken; meanwhile the British Gliding Association is engaged in evolving a scheme for the use of £5,000 annual subsidy granted by the Government in the provision of sites, machines and instructors.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 5
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101GLIDING IN BRITAIN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 5
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