On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 5:45:07 AM UTC-8, John Masheder wrote:

Interesting 1932 advert for the Airspeed Tern Glider as the the original
Airspeed Factory Building in Piccadilly York has only recently been
demolished
despite attempts to open it as a air museum.

Nevil Shute Norway's fine autobiography _Slide Rule_ describes the design and development of the Tern, and of its early accomplishments at the hands of a talented young German emigre. This weekend I was somewhat expecting to read of it in Ann Welch's charming autobiography _Happy to Fly_, but it appears that it and she never crossed paths--for which I think British gliding was much the poorer.

--Bob K.