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Magazine of the BRITISH GLIDING ASSOCIATION---------.~-ContentsEditor:Gillian Bryce Smith, 281 Queen Edith's Way.Cambridge. CB1 4NH. Tel. Cambr,idge 47725.Consultant Editors:Alan E. SlaterAika Harwood. 66 Maisemore Gardens.Emsworlh. Hants. Tel. 024-34 4580Subscriptions:Jenny Aorfe. Tel. <strong>Mar</strong>ket Harborough 67084.Committee:A. W. F. Edwards (Chairman),M. Bird. F. G. trYingAdvertisement Manager:Peggy Mieville, Cheiron Press Ltd.,7 Amersham Hill, High Wycombe, Bucks.HP13 60. Tel. 0494-442423.Cover: John Delafield tool< this unusual tail view ofhis ASW-17, <strong>No</strong>. 66, at Bicester.6 Thermic Rotor H. M. Pantin8 World Glld'I'ng Championships M. R. Carlton9 The Cautionary Tales of Joe MentorSailplane News Rika Harwood10 Glider Radio C. Dews13 Kronfeld's Secret Variometer A. E. Slater15 L1l1enthalDiagrams W. E. Malpas16 Silver Dream in a K·6e Machine T. Smith17 A Load of Bull18 Knowing When to Say <strong>No</strong> R. D. Carswell19 A New British Tug R. G. Procter20 Instructors I Have FI'own P. R. Jay22 Overseas NewsSoaring Among the Vikings C. Ulrich23 Dorset Goes Dutch D. Neal24 TaU Feathers Platypus28 BGA and General NewsObituary - Grp CaptR. Goodbody J. Delafield<strong>Gliding</strong> Certificates30 Annual, Statistics<strong>32</strong> <strong>Club</strong> News37 Service News40 Your Letters R. Harlow, W. E. Malpas, R. R. Rodwell, M. C.Fairman, C. A. P. Ellis, Valerie Carter (reply byEO), R. Jones (reply by A. W. Doughty), H. R.Dimock, A. E. Slater, J. S. Downes, J. J. Smith,D. Bedding, C. A. P. Ellis, D. Peacock44 Book Reviews J. S. Armstrong, Rika Harwood, GillianBryce-SmithFEBRUARY - MARCH 1981VOLUME XXXII <strong>No</strong>. 1Published by British <strong>Gliding</strong> AssociationKimberley House. Vaughan Way, Leicester. Telephone Leicester 51051Printed in England by Blackfriars Press Ltd., Smith Dorrien Road, Leicester.
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