Towplanes at the ready for the 12th FAI Women's World Gliding Championships
Forty-eight of the world’s best female pilots are eagerly awaiting the first task of the 12th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships in Soria, Spain.
CIAM Flyer 3-2023: No future without a look to the past - Building and flying old Scale Model Gliders
The history of aviation reveals a wealth of old aircraft. Even experts and insiders have difficulty keeping track of them all. An astonishing number of gliders were designed and built as early as the 1930s, and in particular after the Second World War.
As these gliders were exclusively built from wood, more and more aeromodellers are building and flying replicas which are built to scale and, of course, also from wood.
