The Club has been in existence since January 1999, and was formed simply to help promote UK scale gliding to ensure "that this most elegant side of the r/c hobby has a continuing high profile".

The Club has a pleasing web site from webmaster Simon Dobby (congratulations on your recent marriage, Simon), containing some interesting material, highlighting Past and Future Events, Member's Photos, More About What We Do and Links.

The page on past events carries some interesting write-ups which give a fascinating insight into this more specialised branch of radio-control flight and the More About What We Do page is really most interesting for anybody not already well-informed about r/c gliding.

There is a nice collection of photos on Member's Photos (one or two of which are on our photo gallery this issue). I don't know if you've ever noticed it in the modelling press, but pictures of these very large gliders frequently include a pretty girl and I was intrigued to discover that the same additional interest is also evident here! Perhaps at last we have discovered the one branch of the hobby that attracts the ladies! Another explanation is that I have discovered that the pictures on the site are all from professional photographer and journalist Tony Baker, the same chap who writes in the modelling press - most notably the monthly Glider Guider feature in RCM&E! Any way, lovely Becca Allen, pictured here, is a scale glider fan, so I can legitimately include her here without any risk of male chauvinist exploitation, or whatever!

The club site does not give any details of flying sites or regular meetings, etc., but further information is available from Tony at gliding@Tesco.net 

The URL for the site is http://www.geocities.com/sssrcsoaring/