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knows his subject and many of the photos are his own. He
started gliding during the war and completed his GOLD C in
1952 flying an M.22. It was the 5th Gold C won in Hungary,
although he had flown his 310.7 Ions during July 1950. It
seems that the Hungarian Gold C list only started, from 1945
as those of Lajos Rotter, Tasnadi and Meray-Horvath are not
listed. There had been one Gold C flown in 1942 and 3 flown
ill 1943. The book may be obtained from: Imre Mitter,
Budapest Xli, Rath Gyorgy uU7), Hungary 1122... and
maybe later. from VGC Sales.
THE HISTORY OF GLIDING IN JAPAN by the late Prof.
Hiroshi Sato. Prof. Sato often atetended the Rhon Contests in
Germany during the 1930s and is known as the Father of
Japanese Gliding. He designed many gliders in Japan before
the second World War wi,th the late Ken-ichi Maeda, who
wrote the book we reviewed on Page 38 ofvac News No.97.
Mr Ken Maeda, who is the son of the late Ken-ichi is, at time
of writing, working to rebuild the "Asahi-shiki Komadorigata"
pl1mary glider. The type name in English means "Asahi
Type Robin," He plans to bring this g:Iider to the VGC Rally
at Pavullo in Italy. It is a 1940 designed Primary Glider similar
to an SG.38, and is illustrated on Page 208 of this history.
We must confess to a certain feeling of shock. Before, we had
never seen a Japanese Gliding Book. Now, we have two!
Unlike Mr Ken-ichi Maeda's boo\{, it starts with page I at the
front of .the book in Western style and works through to the
end. The sentences are horizontal working from right to left,
as far as· can be made out. h is illustrated with photographs of
the gliders, paots, designers and equi.pment.etc. and, towards
the end, there are 3-view drawings of Japanese gliders which
include wartime military troop earrytng gliders. The 3- view
drawings in Prof. SalO's book have not the fine detail of those
in Mr Maeda's book, but should nevertheless be of great interest
to aeromodellers. The Japanese designs show generally
great originality although there were perhaps three designs
similar to the Grunau Baby.
Mr Maeda's book might be obtained by telephoning: 03 3262
6450, or by Faxing : 03 3262 7932. 'Prof.Sato's book might be
obtained by telephoning: 092 (771) 0132. 0f by Faxing : 092
(771 )2546. Its code is : ISBN 4-874/5-272-4. Both are very
well produced bookS and although few of us can understand
Japanese, they should be of great interest to enthusiasts.
Flugzeugtypen. Aircraft profiles-Scale documentation for
flying models. Vol 5, Sailplanes 2.
from Modellsport Verlag GMBH, D-7666530 Baden-Baden,
Flossweg I, Genn1\ny. Tel ++49-(0)7221/9521-0.
Types I'epresented are: Rhonadler 35, Standard Libelle, Schleicher
ASH26126E, Glaser-Oirks· D0200 & 202, FVA lOb
Rheinlalld, Ka2b Rhonschwalbe, Scl1emp.Hirth Discus and
Motor glider Grob 0-109. The text is in really excellent
English. The drawings are by Hans-J.iirgen Fischer and are
supe[1b, as are the photographs which i~lustrate the text.
Edition (Band) No I which came out some time ago
l1escribed the LY542K Stosser, Doppelraab 4, Go 4, DFS
Habicht, Ka6CR, Lo 100, DFS & FW Weihes, RhOnbussard,
Schleicher Ka I Rhonlous and Go I Wolf. We assume and
hope that this edition is still available.
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