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Vintage glider meetings in Italy:
The interest for the history of gliding in Italy is not so popular as in many other countries in the world. Maybe there are several individuals who could have some interest, but they are not communicating each other, as they are not belonging to any club or organisation. For this reason it’s difficult to organise any vintage meeting as it happens in many European countries.
Despite this situation, we succeeded in 1994 to organise in Pavullo the 1st International Vintage Meeting, commemorating Luigi Federico Teichfuss, pioneer of the motorless flight in Italy. It was a successful meeting which was repeated in 1996, 1998, 2006 and also in 2008. In this last one, we had the attendance of German, Swiss, French and Italian pilots, plus visitors from Sweden, Finland and USA.
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Other International Vintage Glider Meetings took place at Asiago in Veneto in the year 2002 and at Osoppo in Friuli in the year 2009 with many partecipants and visitor from Europe, USA and Japan. The Second Vintage Glider Meeting dedicated to Ugo Zannier took place in Osoppo - Udine from the 9th to the 16th of July 2011. . |
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Vintage glider meetings in Europe:
The Vintage Glider Club (VGC) was founded in 1973, in England by Chris Wills, president. The first meeting took place in Husband Bosworth with the participation of a small number of sailplanes flown by their owners. Today, the VGC has become a world wide organisation with over 1300 members and more than 400 sailplanes restored and in flying conditions.
Each year, between July and August, the VGC is organizing a Rally of
about ten days in one of European countries belonging to the organization
which has become global. In 2008, for example it was in Wels in Austria
and was attended by over 400 people with a hundred gliders so well in
2009 at Achmer Germany. In 2010, the 38th
VGC Rally was held in Tibenham, in the UK. As in previous editions
also this Rally has had considerable success.
In 2011 the 39th VGC Rally took
place in Austria
at Spitzerberg, not far from Vienna, from 30th July until 07th August
This year the 40th International Vintage Glider Rally will take place in Lithuania at Pociunai, from 30th July until 9th August.
http://vgc2012.pociunai.lt/index.php
www.vintagegliderclub.org.uk
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Vintage glider meetings in United States:
Just after the foundation of VGC in England, a similar organisation fixing the similar policy and objectives of VGC, was created in the USA under the name of “Vintage Sailplane Association”.
At first the VSA organised National and Regional Vintage Meetings such as the Western Regatta, or the Eastern Regatta etc, but starting from 1995 they organised the 1st International Sailplane Meet in Elmira, NY State. The meeting was very successful and gathered people from many parts of the world.
The experience was repeated five years later with the IVSM2000, even
more successful than the previous one and again in 2005 as IVSM2005.
Again in Elmira from 28th June to 4th July 2009 was organised the last
VSA named IVSM-2009.
The next edition is planned always in Elmira from 30th June to 7th July 2012
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World Vintage Glider meetings:
Passion for Vintage gliders knows no boundaries. Even in the remotest
parts of the world Vintage Glider Meeting are organized. You cannot always
participate to all because of distance, but last January 2010, not treating
the 21-hour flight, I flew to Australia to attend the rally
in Bordertown, halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide. The trip was
worth it.
