- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (2 April 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719528232
- ISBN-13: 978-0719528231
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 766,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Hardcover
This follow-on book to "where no birds fly" (ok 10 years later), sees Philip looking again at the state of UK gliding.
As this is around 1970, this also looks at the way the BGA worked alongside the authorities to ensure fair access to recreational flyers (gliding or otherwise). This involved working with the calculation of collision risk and how this relates to civil and military airspace users. The example of "RAF Lyneham" being a trouble-point (and today is scheduled to decommission as an RAF base in 2012 and so the problem may now go away after 40 years of waiting).
Then there is the chapter on the air-space wrangles around Luton airport, which didn't exist when the London Gliding Club had been around for 20 years. The somewhat fierce debate (and at time acrimonious) ended with sense prevailing and a tailored airspace created to allow all users fair usage along the Chiltern ridges.
As Philip was head of the BGA for many years he discusses the ongoing issues of legislation and how to tread carefully through the governance mine-field. I get the feeling he though that if nothing was done, then UK air-space would be off-limits to general aviation users (and he's probably right).
Part 2 of the book then goes back to a more traditional view of exploits and events in his later gliding years - notably in Italy and New Zealand.
The book includes a few black and what plates to give a sense of nostalgia, (including another Eagle wing-tip photo). One picture of note is that of a great picture of the Slingsby T.59 "Kestrel" single-seater. Which has to be one of the most beautiful gliders the reviewer has seen.
Overall, this is a bit of gliding nostalgia-trip and highlights how much more regulated things are today.
As this is around 1970, this also looks at the way the BGA worked alongside the authorities to ensure fair access to recreational flyers (gliding or otherwise). This involved working with the calculation of collision risk and how this relates to civil and military airspace users. The example of "RAF Lyneham" being a trouble-point (and today is scheduled to decommission as an RAF base in 2012 and so the problem may now go away after 40 years of waiting).
Then there is the chapter on the air-space wrangles around Luton airport, which didn't exist when the London Gliding Club had been around for 20 years. The somewhat fierce debate (and at time acrimonious) ended with sense prevailing and a tailored airspace created to allow all users fair usage along the Chiltern ridges.
As Philip was head of the BGA for many years he discusses the ongoing issues of legislation and how to tread carefully through the governance mine-field. I get the feeling he though that if nothing was done, then UK air-space would be off-limits to general aviation users (and he's probably right).
Part 2 of the book then goes back to a more traditional view of exploits and events in his later gliding years - notably in Italy and New Zealand.
The book includes a few black and what plates to give a sense of nostalgia, (including another Eagle wing-tip photo). One picture of note is that of a great picture of the Slingsby T.59 "Kestrel" single-seater. Which has to be one of the most beautiful gliders the reviewer has seen.
Overall, this is a bit of gliding nostalgia-trip and highlights how much more regulated things are today.
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