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'Take Up Slack 9 Hjstory of The London <strong>Gliding</strong> Clu 1930-2000 DWARD HULL * ^ V
Page 1: EDWARD HULL
Page 5 and 6: 118 120 121 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Cha
Page 7 and 8: Pioneering days are always exciting
Page 9 and 10: The earliest reports of gliding tak
Page 11 and 12: after several abortwe attempts to g
Page 13 and 14: Going into a little bit of the hist
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 3 THE THIRTIES & FORTIES Du
Page 17 and 18: ecause the weather in which you cou
Page 19 and 20: ehind you, would invariably come ou
Page 21 and 22: the mid-thirties and had shares in
Page 23 and 24: over the working parts (of the winc
Page 25 and 26: Just after the war, instruction was
Page 27 and 28: above the Bowl and had a stagecoach
Page 29 and 30: Chapter 4 THE FIFTIES & SIXTIES In
Page 31 and 32: paint mark and he disappeared into
Page 33 and 34: visibility at 4,000ft thought he wa
Page 35 and 36: Frank Pozerskis arrived at the Club
Page 37 and 38: flew and many were the times when t
Page 39 and 40: One section of the huts had been co
Page 41 and 42: Pat George was down in the caravan
Page 43 and 44: Mike Till, Club staff instructor 19
Page 45 and 46: the inspired Chairmanship of Tom Ze
Page 47 and 48: Chuck Bentson, seeing Mike Riddell
Page 49 and 50: Field right across the approach pat
Page 51 and 52: This done, I was horrified to see t
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provided the launch platform for a
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three women , some children and dog
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The second flight bore no compariso
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Peter Goldstraw, victim of the 1999
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Chapter 7 SOARING INTERRUPTUS e act
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Dunstable archaeologists probably a
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with strict ideas about changing th
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Italian prisoners of war in 1943 ou
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treated. In civilian dress, they dr
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Nissen hut. These were all dismantl
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From the earliest days of the Club,
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Chapter 11 CLUB GLIDER & TUG FLEET
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During the second half of 1957 the
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ut the vibration was still there. B
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Winch No2 1956. Normally two winche
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Don Gerrard. Dick Cooper. Phil Rams
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and three broken ribs. After he cam
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applied to the frame. It was chaos.
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Chapter 17 AEROBATIC COMPETITIONS &
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looked magnificent with the sun shi
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T'he 18th March 1934 was a cracking
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with which he won the 1937 British
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Chapter 19 THE LONDON BALLOON CLUB
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Chapter 20 COMPETITIONS & EPIC RETR
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oxygen equipment. This could have b
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dozen people to cope with such an '
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Lucy Withall. When they were very y
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With its location north of London,
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Shoulder launch of a Kirby Kite. me
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LGC pre-war pilots' lunch 1993. (L
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A brief description of the more not
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to careless storage but the other,
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angle of attack reduced and span ex
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As the new century opens, one's hop
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APPENDIX II ANNUAL TROPHIES & AWARD
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l It seems so long ago I leapt away
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