Wally Kahn & BGA UK eBook Collection
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THE DREAM To professionally scan all out of print UK gliding books and create an eBook library. The intention was that the BGA will have an accessible, catalogued hard copy gliding library and eventually the BGA website would host all the scanned UK gliding magazines and the eBook library. We are grateful for the support from the people on the right who have nearly made this dream possible. Their names and clubs will be on a "Roll of Honour" fastened to the new book cases at BGA HQ.
THE HISTORY. Over 150 unique UK gliding books had been collected by Wally Kahn over many years and it is the heart of the ‘UK Gliding Library’ that has now been assembled. Wally generously decided to gift his collection to the BGA so that it could be combined with the BGA collection. The BGA were delighted to accept this opportunity. The original BGA collection was gifted to the BGA by Doc Slater who collected over 400 books from world wide sources, mainly on aviation related subjects with a proportion purely on gliding. The BGA has created an accessible library which is held in the BGA headquarters at Leicester.
Combining the collections takes the UK gliding book collection up to 160 unique books. It is probable that all the books on the subject of gliding published in the UK are listed below, if you spot a UK published one we haven't got please email Peter Redshaw or Wally Kahn with the details. Geoff Moore, Tom Edwards, Peter Charatan, Ged Terry and Bob Boyd pointed us at 8 additional UK books.
Having established a physical and comprehensive library the next target was to scan as many of these UK books that are out of print as is possible and convert them into eBooks. The BGA agreed to host them on their BGA/Sailplane and Gliding website when they upgrade their website facility. The aim is to make them easily searchable, freely available and retain them for posterity. If you have any ideas or comments on this please send them to Peter Redshaw.
In certain cases, due to copyright rules, we have only been able to provide sample extracts from some of the books. In this situation we provide enough digital content that should you subsequently wish to purchase the books, the eBooks or sample eBooks will give you a very good idea of the content to aid your choice. Many are still available from online book shops but they fail to provide enough information to aid your choice.
EXECUTION. It required funds to scan these books and do it professionally. The magazines were scanned for free and judging from the number of magazine downloads that are being made, you obviously enjoy reading them. We hoped that you would therefore share our dream and contribute to this UK gliding eBook library and archive. This you have done and we passed the £10000 target early May 2011, many thanks to those listed on the right.
A separate account inside the Lakes Gliding Club's bank account, named "The Kahn/BGA eBook Library" account is safely holding the funds. ALL monies raised will go towards scanning. Should for some reason the project stop in the middle, scanning liabilities will be paid from funds, residual money will be returned to the donors in proportion to their generosity. Achieved scanning work will be given to the BGA.
Wally very generously set the ball rolling with a donation of £2000 and the gift to the BGA of his magnificent UK gliding book collection. It is only fitting that we should thus refer to the eventual digital library of UK gliding books as the "Wally Kahn Collection". If you would like to be part of this project or think you can help, please contact Peter Redshaw or Wally Kahn.
THE BOOKS. Our first eBook was, Wally Kahn, A Glider Pilot bold.. (3rd edition) The list of 169 UK books is sorted by author. Progress is being made, we now have 31 eBooks, highlighted on the list in green. Right click on the title to 'save as' and download the book, note that some are large files. In order to open the PDF documents, Adobe Reader (version 8 or later) will need to be installed on your PC. To download the latest copy of this software go to http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html An alternate and sometimes better software for reading the PDF files is Foxit Reader, this is free and available at http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader Use Foxit Reader if Adobe is not opening the pictures properly.
Author | Year | Title | Publisher |
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Anon (unknown) | 1980 | The Artic Lite guide to gliding | CSS Productions |
Anon (unknown) | 1931 | The London Gliding Club | unknown |
Anon (unknown) | 1937 | This Gliding | unknown |
Anon (Unknown) | 1938 | Sky-riders | Wm Collins |
Ashwell-Cooke J | 1932 | Motorless flight | J. Hamilton |
Bally J | 1980 | Mountain Flying at Talgarth | Black Mountains GC |
BGA | 1930 | BGA Journal No2 August 1930 | BGA |
BGA | 1930 | BGA Journal No1 March 1930 | BGA |
BGA | 1931 | BGA Journal No3 January 1931 | BGA |
BGA | 1930 | Handbook | BGA |
BGA | 1960 | Modern Elementary Gliding | Chartwell Press |
BGA | 1970 | The Solo Glider Pilot | Langham |
BGA | 1931 | Handbook | |
Bird M | 2000 | Platypus Papers | Platypus |
Blanchard P | Elementary Gliding | Thermal Equipment Ltd | |
Bradbury T | 1991 | Meteorology and flight | A & C Black |
British Gliding Asscn | 2002 | Gliding – BGA Manual | A & C Black |
Brunt D | 1928 | Meteorology | Oxford Uni Press |
Camp G | 1982 | British Soaring Yearbook 1981 | BGA |
Camp G | 1983 | British Soaring Yearbook 1982/83 | BGA |
Camp G | 1985 | British Soaring Yearbook 1984/85 | BGA |
Camp G | 1987 | British Soaring Year Book 1986/87 | BGA |
Champion P | 1974 | Glider pilot | Model |
Coates A | 1978 | Janes World Sailplanes | Jane's |
Collins G | 1988 | Sails in the sky | G.Collins |
Corbusier L | 1987 | Aircraft (reprint of 1935 edition) | Trefoil Publications |
Cumming | 1966 | The powerless ones | Fred. Muller |
Curry A | 1961 | Dying High (Murder Thriller) | W.H.Allen |
De Villamill R | 1920 | Soaring Flight | |
Delafield J | 1982 | Gliding competitively | A & C Black |
Dixon R | 2003 | Soaring the South Down Ridge | Southdown GC |
Dorset GC | 1931 | Gliding - a year book 1931 | Dorset GC |
Douglas A & Welch L | 1952 | Elementary Flying Training in 2 Seaters | BGA |
Douglas A (Welch) | 1943 | Cloud reading for pilots | John Murray |
Douglas A (Welch) | 1947 | Gliding and advanced soaring | John Murray |
Easson I | 2008 | Scottish Gliding Union 1934-2008 | IKE Publishing |
Eckley D | 2007 | Story of Back Mountains G.C. | PIP Printing |
Edmonds A (Welch) | 1939 | Silent flight | Country Life |
Ellison N | 1971 | British gliders and sailplanes1922-70 | A & C Black |
Entwhistle F | 1931 | Meteorological aspects of Gliding | |
Espin C (H) | 1935 | The Silent Wing | Monk Press |
Essays | 1929 | How to build and fly Gliders | |
Fairlie G & Cayley E | 1965 | The Life of a genius – Cayley | Hodder & Stoughton |
Flanders & Carr | 1930 | Gliding and Motorless Flight | |
Fox Geen | 1952 | The ABC of gliding | Geo. Allen & Unwin |
Foyle C & L.Marriott | 2009 | Pioneers to Partners | C.Foyle Publish |
Freundenberg M | 2009 | Clear air Turbulence – Anne Burns | Charlton Pub |
Gibbs-Smith C | 1962 | Sir George Cayley’s Aeronautics | H.M.O. Science Museum |
Gibbs-Smith C | 1970 | Aviation | H.M.O. Science Museum |
Gotch W | 1955 | Playground in the sky | Hutchinson |
Hammond G | 2000 | Into the blue (a novel) | Severn House |
Hardy | 1982 | Gliders and Sailplanes of the world | Ian Allen |
Harwood G | 1962 | Gliding Clubs | |
Henshaw A | 1939 | Sky Riders (3 pages gliding) | Collins |
Hill D | 2005 | 50 years of membership of Yorkshire GC | |
Hirth W | 1938 | The Art of Soaring Flight | ** |
Hiscock D | 1997 | History of The London Gliding Club, The First Twenty Years | |
Horsley T | 1944 | Soaring Flight | Eyre & Spottiswoode |
Horsley T | 1947 | Gliding & Power flying | Cumberlege |
Horsley T | 1947 | The long flight | Country Life Ltd |
Hull E | 2000 | Take up slack | Woodfield |
Ince D | 1992 | Combat and Competition | Newton |
Irving F | 1998 | The paths of soaring flight | Imperial Coll press |
Jackson P | 1997 | Tiger in the Sky | Truleigh Press |
Jarrett P | 1987 | Another Icarus – Percy Pilcher | Smithsonian Press ** |
Jarrett P | 1999 | Percy Pilcher, Challenge of Flight | Nat Museum of Scotland |
Kahn W | 1998 | A Glider Pilot bold.. | Jardine Publishing |
Kahn W | 2008 | A Glider Pilot bold.. (2nd edition) | AFE |
Kahn W | 2011 | A Glider Pilot bold.. (3rd edition) | eBook Library |
Kronfeld R | 1932 | Kronfeld on Gliding and Soaring | John Hamilton |
Kukuski J | 1952 | Theory & technique of Soaring | Pitman, London |
Latimer Needham C | 1935 | Gliding and Soaring | Philip Allen |
Latimer Needham C | 1937 | Sailplanes | Chapman & Hall |
Leeming J | 1937 | Airdays | Harrap |
Lilienthal Otto | 1911 | Birdflight as the basis of aviation | Longmans, Green |
Logan M | Gliding and Soaring Simply Explained | Pitmans, London | |
Lomax J | 1988 | Hanna Reitsch | John Murray |
Longland S | 2001 | Gliding, from passenger to pilot | Crowood |
Longland S | 2002 | Gliding | A & C Black |
Ludlam & Scorer | 1960 | Cloud Study – a pictorial guide | Murray |
Ludlam & Scorer | 1954 | Further Outlook | Wingate |
Mallinson P & Woollard M | 1999 | The Handbook of glider aerobatics | Airlife |
Mary de Bunsen | 1940 | Flying with the Germans | |
McCullagh J | 2004 | Bronze & Beyond | McCullagh |
Meagher M | 1985 | Chicken livered granny | Ava Books |
Merseyside Aviation | 1970 | Brit. Gliders 1970 1st Edition | Merseyside Av Soc |
Merseyside Aviation | 1975 | Brit. Gliders 1975 2nd Edition | Merseyside Av Soc |
Merseyside Aviation | 1980 | Brit. Gliders 1980 3rd Edition | Merseyside Av Soc |
Merseyside Aviation | 1981 | British Isles Airfield Guide | Merseyside Av Soc |
Millett D | 1994 | Teaching Harry to fly | Hartley Publishers |
Millett D | 1994 | Whispering Wings | Newton |
Milner R | 1967 | Without visible means of support | |
Minterne D | 2005 | Detling Diary, RAE Tech Coll GC | |
Mole E | 1984 | Happy landings | Airlife |
Moran P | 1987 | A Speck in the sky | Blandford Press |
Morgan | 1909 | How to build a 20ft biplane glider | |
Morgan A | 1990 | Gliding in eight days | Osprey |
Morgan A | 1975 | Airborne for pleasure | David & Charles |
Park A | 1964 | Club Flying and Gliding | Hennel Locke |
Payne P | Modern Sailplane Design | ||
Peltzer F | 1953 | Maloja wind (a novel) | Hammond |
Penrose H | 1988 | An Ancient Air – John Stringfellow | AirLife |
Piggott D | 1990 | Derek Piggott on gliding | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1991 | Gliding Safety | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1978 | Going solo | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1988 | Understanding flying weather | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1975 | Beginning Gliding | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1977 | Delta Papa | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1958 | Gliding, a handbook on soaring Flight | A & C Black |
Piggott D | 1977 | Understanding gliding | A & C Black |
Pike L & Joyce | Gliding for Schools | Aero | |
Pilcher & Stringfellow | 1910 | Gliding | R.Aero Soc |
Portsmouth Naval Club | 1950 | Journal | Skysail |
Pritchard J | 1961 | George Cayley | |
Reitsch H | 1955 | The sky is my kingdom | Bodley Head |
Riddell J | 1967 | About Gliding | |
Riddell J | 1984 | Yorkshire Club – 1st 50 years | |
Riddle R | 1991 | British Gliding Clubs Directory 1991 edition | BGA |
Robinson C | 1990 | Q & A for glider pilots | Desktop Studio |
Sainsbury P | 1957 | Gliding, Poor man's Sport | |
Scott P | 1961 | The eye of the wind (hardback) | Hodder & Stoughton |
Scull W | 1977 | Gliding and Soaring | Pelham |
Scull W | 1987 | Soaring Cross-country | Pelham |
Serjeant & Watson | 1965 | The gliding book | Nicholas Kaye |
Shattock I | Soaring at Usk | ||
Simons M | An Introduction to Gliding | London GC | |
Simons M | 2001 | Sailplanes 1920 - 1945 | ‘Eqip’ |
Simons M | 2002 | Sailplanes 1945 – 1965 | ‘Eqip’ |
Simons M | 2004 | Sailplanes 1965 - 2000 | 'Eqip' |
Simons M | 1996 | Slingsby Sailplanes | Airlife |
Simpson J | 1994 | Sea Breeze and Local Winds | Cambridge University Press |
Simpson J | 1961 | Tackle gliding this way | Stanley Paul |
Sitek and Blunt V | 1940 | Gliding and Soaring | Alliance Press |
Smahelova H | 1960 | Youth on the Wing | Uni of London Press |
Staff of Motor | 1910 | The Aero Manual | |
Stafford-Allen R | 1959 | Glider Maintenance Manual | BGA |
Stafford-Allen R | 1962 | Theory of flight for glider pilots | Oliver & Boyd |
Stamer F and Lippisch | 1930 | Gliding and Sail-Planing | Bodley |
Stewart K | 2000 | Soaring pilot’s manual | Airlife |
Stewart K | 1994 | The glider pilot’s manual | Airlife |
Sumner P.H | 1935 | Aircraft Progress & Development | Crosby Lockwood |
W R Scott | 1942 | Manual of Gliding No20 | Bernards |
Wallington W | 1961 | Meteorology for glider pilots | John Murray |
Welch A & Scull W | 1999 | Navigating With GPS | R Inst of Navigation |
Weiss J | 1923 | Gliding and Soaring flight | Sampson Low |
Welch & Welch | 1965 | The Story of Gliding (1965) | |
Welch A | 1978 | Accidents Happen | John Murray |
Welch A | 1955 | Come gliding with me | Fred. Muller |
Welch A | 1963 | Glider flying | Constable |
Welch A | 1976 | Gliding | EP Publishing |
Welch A | 1983 | Happy to fly | John Murray |
Welch A | 1964 | John goes gliding | Jonathan Cape |
Welch A | 1994 | Know the game | BGA |
Welch A | 1973 | Pilot’s weather | John Murray |
Welch A | 1986 | The complete soaring guide | A & C Black |
Welch A | 1980 | The story of gliding | John Murray |
Welch A | 1964 | The Woolacombe bird (a novel) | World Publishing |
Welch A & Gabor | 1960 | Go gliding | Faber |
Welch A & L | 1961 | Flying Training in gliders | BGA |
Welch A & L, Irving F | 1970 | New soaring pilot | John Murray |
Welch A & L, Irving F | 1955 | The soaring pilot | John Murray |
Wilk, Brooks, Shenstone | 1963 | The World Sailplanes Vol II | OSTIV |
Wilkinson & Shenstone | 1963 | World Sailplanes 2nd Edition | |
Wilkinson K,Brooks P& Shenstone B | 1958 | The World Sailplanes | OSTIV |
Wills P | 1973 | Free as a bird | William Clowes |
Wills P | 1953 | On being a bird | Max Parrish |
Wills P | 1961 | Where no birds fly | Newnes |
Wills P and others | 1960 | The beauty of gliding | Max Parrish |
Wright L | 1967 | The wooden sword | Elek Books |
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Copyright of the eBooks. A number of books are clearly outside copyright, however, every effort is being made to trace the authors, publishers and descendants of these books to seek approval to use copyrighted material. The scanned material as eBooks remain the copyright of the many people who gave their permission to convert the individual books to eBooks and “The Wally Kahn/BGA eBook Library” who are doing the scanning. The gliding movement thanks you.
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