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The VGC news is published three times a year and is included with membership of the VGC. Each issue is packed with information of interest to owners, modelers and anyone interested in Vintage Gliders.

Editorial Team

Current Edition

This edition of VGC News contains articles on:-
  • Rally Roundup
  • Dagling Disgrace
  • The Rhonsperber
  • International News
  • Horten-yet more
  • Club Focus-Bannerdown
  • Derek Piggot flies the Mucha

VGC106 Summer 2002

VGC News Back Numbers

This edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Hotspur 2 at Middle Wallop

  • Slingsby prefect TX1 WE992.

  • Elfe M. Dr Pfenninger;s last sailplane design.

  • Kranich III back in the skies over Mainz.

  • Scott Viking 1, impressive performer

  • Centenary Years 2002-2003

  • VSB-27, Ing. Vaclav Ostradel's last design.

  • Horten-the truth at last.

  • Model Forum

  • International news.

 

VGC105 Spring 2002

 

This edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Will we havw a Horten flying wing in the air again?

  • The 29th International Rally at Zabraslavice.

  • Switzerland,13th Oldtimer rally at Courlay.

  • More information on musee de L'aire, Angers.

  • DFS Habicht-First Flight.

  • T21-a Spanish Tail

 

VGC 104 Spring 2002

This edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Restoring a Ka2.

  • Early days in Canad.

  • Ladies GC in Mainz

  • Second birth of French Gliding.

  • Bending of ply and solid wood.

 

VGC 103 Winter 2001

This edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Tow cable Angle indicator

  • South African Histrory.

  • Production in the ex DDR.

  • 57 year old glider.

  • Buying a Jaskolka.

  • Kranich rebuild.

  • Model Forum

VGC 102 Summer 2001

This edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Early days of gliding in Britain, New Zealand and Belgium.

  • Restoration(Scarf joints).

  • A museum visit.

  • Model Forum.

  • Some Gliders from teh former East Germany.

 

VGC 101 Spring 2001

The 100th edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Wolf Hirth in Japan in the 1930s

  • The life of Hutter BGA 490

  • The W-28 Windspiel glider which had an empty weight of only 59kg (from memory)

  • The prototype Kirby Kadet

  • and early days of gliding in Africa, Britain, Italy, Spain and the USA.

 

VGC 100 Summer 2000

The current edition of VGC News contains articles on:-

  • Repair of a T21

  • The Musterle flies.

  • Dick Stratten retires as BGA Chief Technical Officer.

  • Horten and Schneider 3 Views.

 

VGC99 Spring 2000

VGC 97

 

  • 500kms in a Ka8 (yes that's right, in a Ka8 in 10 hours 10 mins),
  • The first manned flight, (the Cayley flying machine,)
  • One man's life in pictures
  • A modified Skylark
  • plus reports on:-

the British rally at Bicester, the Rendezvous and the International Rally together with reports on the USA Western Regionals at Tehachapi and lots more.

 

VGC98 Winter 1999

VGC 97

 
  • The feature articles will be:
  • The first 500kms flights
  • The life and times of a Minimoa
  • The first ten years of the VGC
  • Oldies but Goldies with a Polish accent
  • Model Sailplanes
  • Test flights of the Nyborg Sailplane

Reports from 12 countries, and several book reviews.

VGC 97 Summer 1999

VGC 97
  • The Kranich 2
  • The 20th Rhön contest in 1939
  • The London Gliding Club in 1939/40
  • The Motorised Petrel
  • Obituaries on Peter Riedel, Walter Horten and Syd Davies.

Reviews of Martin Symon's new book on Schweizer Gliders and two books in German

The entry form for the Camphill Rally is inserted and there is a note that entry forms for the IVSM in the USA in Y2000 are available from Graham Ferrier.

VGC 96 Spring 1999

VGC 96
  • The history of Haddenham Airfield
  • The Sao Paulo Sailplane
  • I helped rescue the Schweizer 1-7
  • A Waterborne Sailplane, the Roma
  • Extracts from Camphill News

Also news from several different countries and lots of letters.

There will also be 3-view drawings of the DFS-Fafnir, Sao Paulo

VGC 95 Winter 98

VGC 94

 

  • "The Loudon sailplane" fromCanada which might have been the Ka8 of its day,
  • "There used to be Laughter", where the author contrasts amusingly the present structured Instructor's patter with the DIY instructors of his youth,
  • "The Baynes Bat", a one third scale model of a tailess glider to carry a tank into battle,
  • "Vintage gliding" wherein Chris Hughes gives four warnings for the elderly
  • "Schouhagen", the history of the nearest general aviation airfield to Berlin
  • "Avia variations or how not to buy a vintage glider"
  • "Museums and what they should be", from Justin Wills in New Zealand
  • "My first launch by Jorg Ziller", after helping to steal three gliders from the British troops in Germany in 1945.

Also news from several different countries and lots of letters including a long one from Czech on history of Count Almesy who was the hero in the film The English Patient.

There will also be 3-view drawings of Kranich variants, Zogling variants and Sedy Vlk from Bohemia.

VGC 94 Summer 98

VGC 94


5 Feature articles,

  •     A Scud and a Gull
  •     Dr Küttner's high altitude flights
  •     An Aerial kibitzer
  •     The Hunt Sailplane     
  •     Classification of gliders 

8 Obituaries including

  •     Egon Scheibe
  •     Ladislav Marmol 

5 Book reviews and

5 3-view drawings 

VGC 93 Spring 98

VGC 93

  • Rally Reports
  • Feature articles on:-
    • A Classic glider, the Condor
    • Dr Kuttner's Epic Flight
    • Saltby to Hus Bos in a T31
    • Towing with Microlite Tugs
    • The Streak
    • Knights of the Popping Corks
    • Restoration of Grunau Baby BGA 370
  • International news from:-
    • Australia, Belgium, Britain, Czecho, Holland, France, Germany.
  • International Rallies for 1998
  • Obituaries on Jost Frei
  • Letters from members
  • Classified ads
  • 3-view drawings of:-
    • Condor IV, Spalinger S15-K, Interesting for the scale modeller

VGC 92 Winter 97

VGC 92

 

  • Rally Reports
  • Feature articles on:-
    • A Classic glider, the Minimoa
    • The first Chilton Olympia
    • The popular glider in Brazil
    • Restoration of a Grunau Baby
    • History
  • International news from:-
    • Australia, Brazil, Britain, Holland, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Japan, USA
  • International Rallies still to come
  • Obituaries on Wolfgang Spate & Erno Rubik
  • Book review
  • Letters from members
  • Classified ads
  • 3-view drawings of:-

Periquito, S-25, Flamingo, CVV6 Canguro, Araponga, Mowe, Interesting for the scale modeller

VGC 91 Summer 97

VGC 91
  • Rally Reports
  • Feature articles on:-
    • History of the Lunak
    • Restoration of Oly 2B, BGA 678
    • LO100
  • International news from:-
    • Australia, Austria, Britain, Czecho Holland, Ierland, France, Germany
  • International Rallies
  • Obituaries on Jean Cayla, "The Father of the Breguets", and Bill Bedford
  • Letters from members
  • Classified ads
  • 3-view drawings of:-
    • Castel Mauboussin CM7, LO100 & SG38. Interesting for the scale modeller

VGC 90 Spring 97

VGC 90
  • Rally Reports
  • Feature articles on:-
    • Gliding in the Old Days
    • Camphill Vintage Group
    • Vintage Centre in the North
    • Hooked!
    • Spruce Goose
  • International news from:-
    • Britain, Czecho, Holland, Germany, Switzerland
  • International Rallies
  • Obituaries on Walter Dittmar, Racy Buxton & Harald James Penrose
  • Letters from members
  • Classified ads
  • 3-view drawings of:-
    • Dart Cambridge, Dart Totternhoe, Spalinger S-18-II Interesting for the scale modeller

VGC 89 Autumn 96

VGC 89