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In Pictures: Gliding in the North-east

By Scott Begbie
1979: A glider from the Deeside Gliding Club drifts slowly over Loch Kinord.
1979: A glider from the Deeside Gliding Club drifts slowly over Loch Kinord.

We’ve dug through our archives and found these incredible pictures of people gliding in the North-east.

1995: Aboyne Academy pupil Marc Stephen prepares for his first flight with membership secretary James Davidson.
A glider coming in to land in 1960.
1979: Instructors and their enthusiastic pupils at Deeside Gliding Club gather round for a talk-in.
1981: The single-seater Astir CS 77, piloted by Angela Veitch, glides over Dallachy airfield. The River Spey and Spey Bay are in the background.
1979: A glider from the Deeside Gliding Club drifts slowly over Loch Kinord.
1992: The Scottish Gliding Association on Saturday accepted a new ASH 25 Glider from the Scottish Sports Council at Deeside Gliding Club's airfield at Aboyne.
1983: ompetition director Lemmy Tanner (left), Aboyne, gives some advice on the area to Tony Smallwood
1951: A"Sedbergh" glider, of the type in which an A.T.C. cadet will begin his flying training.
199 An unusual view of Deeside, as Mike Faherty, of the Deeside Gliding Club, Aboyne, loops the loop.
1951: Mr John Milne prepares to detach tow rope on reaching sufficient height for a short hop at Inverallochy Drome
"Ruth Tait gets ready to flash the signal for take-off as Hazel Sneddon records the flight details."
Used P&J 25.07.1981
1970: Gliding at Dyce

 

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