22 APRIL 1938, Page 6

Gliding, I believe, has a bearing oc some value on

various problems of aviation proper (if it is more proper to be pro- pelled by a motor than by wind-currents cum gravity) and to that extent its growing popularity is no doubt to be welcomed; but the absence of any aller et retour aspect must be rather a serious drawback. On Easter Monday, for example, a pilot starting from Leicester glided (? glode) something over a hundred miles into Gloucestershire, and another setting out from Pewsey in Wiltshire came to earth, or rather sand, a few miles from Plymouth. Both were brilliant performance, but over the sequel in each case a veil is drawn. The pilot-, presumably, went home by train and the machines by Carle; Paterson.