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Old 31st Aug 2007, 22:39
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Should his family ever read these notes, I would like to offer them my sincere condolances and sympathy in their loss.
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As a footnote, if anyone can correlate dates and type, I would be most interested.
It were indeed the World Gliding Championships which took place in Great Hucklow in 1954. Paul McCready was flying a Schweitzer 1-23E (Soaring magazine November-December 1954). Incidentally the winner that year was a Frenchman, Gérard Pierre, who flew the same glider Paul McCready used in 1956, the Breguet 901.

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