Volume 32 No 1 Feb-Mar 1981.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

does mention a variometer in his 1932 book, Kronfeld on Glidingand Soaring, p2,s1, where he advises the reader on buying asailplane and what instruments 10 put in it. The book came outin mid 1932, my cop.y being bought on Augusl 8.v,ariometer, but I have searched the book and cannot find thepassage.111 ,the I'ong article Peter Riedel states that many pilots at the1928 RhOn Contest gained height by circling, suggesting thatTwo c,orrespondents have commented on a varimneter they had variometers; including Edgar Dittn;ar who pur up adescribed in S&G for February J, 1933 (the first number I ever world's altitude re\:ord of 715m. But I was there and saw noedited) by its inventor Vul all V