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unusual facts about Gliding competitions



Buckminster Gliding Club

The 2007 soaring season sees further pushes into rated competitions with pilots entered into the Midland Regionals Competition at The Soaring Centre (Husbands Bosworth), the Bicester Regionals, The Gransden Regionals at the Cambridge Gliding Centre, the 18 m Nationals and Competition Enterprise.

Five members competed at the Midland Regional Competition at The Soaring Centre (Husbands Bosworth), and others competed at the Bicester Regionals, Lasham Regionals, Competition Enterprise at Aboyne and The Northerns at the Yorkshire Gliding Club (Sutton Bank).


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Buxton Hjordis

It had been designed and built for the well-known British glider pilot, Philip Wills, and he flew it at the British National Gliding Competitions at Sutton Bank in September 1935.