Funding call for GB Womens World Gliding Championship Team
Great Britain’s Womens World Gliding Championship Team have launched a funding drive to support their appearance at this year’s world championships being held in the Czech Republic. Unlike many of the national teams that are competing this year, Team GB is not state funded and the six competitors require support in taking their single-seat gliders out to Zbraslavice for the championships being held from 26 July to 09...
Glider flies across four nations in one flight
On 18 March 2025 an Arcus M self-launching motor glider, flown by Chris Gill, Manager and Chief Flying Instructor at Denbigh Gliding and Geoff Burtenshaw from the Southdown Gliding Club, made an epic journey flying across the four nations of Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England, in a flight lasting nearly nine hours, covering a distance of 382 miles and attaining a height gain to 19,000 ft over the Eryri (Snowdonia) National...
Final call for HCAP gliding scholarships
The application window for the Honourable Company of Air Pilots’ 2025 gliding scholarships is closing tomorrow (25 February). HCAP provides courses during the summer months with several British Gliding Association centres for individuals interested having a go at gliding. The scholarships are residential and are offered to people over the age of 16. Successful candidates have the opportunity to fly on a one-week course at a...
Essex & Suffolk Gliding Club seeking new home
The Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club has announced that it is looking for a new operating base after confirming that its lease expires at its current location at Wormingford Airfield, Essex in September 2026. Posting a call-out for advice on aviation internet boards, the club which has been active since the late 1950s, said: “The Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club is currently based at Wormingford Airfield (a few miles east of Earls Colne)...
AERO Friedrichshafen 2024 event round-up
The 30th AERO Friedrichshafen will not only be remembered as an anniversary edition, but also as a trade fair with a particularly large number of innovations and premieres. With 31,500 visitors from 81 nations, the numbers were significantly higher than the previous year’s edition and the proportion of pilots among visitors increased once again. The AERO Drones, the AERO Gliding Expo and the AERO Career Days proved their worth....
