Ursula Wiese rescues a flagging free flight by becoming the new editor. Australian meteorologist Robert Dorning starts a series on the fundamentals of atmospheric convection.

The great adventure – Romania to Australia by motor glider. A must-see page of cartoons by “Tenrag”.

The long series, “An Aviary of Gliding Types” begins written by a dry Eric Newsome and featuring splendid caricatures by Gil Parcell.

This issue has a great write-up on the 17th Worlds at Paderborn. Wet weather, and the strange and amazing day when the Open class winner earned zero points for legally completing the task!

An imagined diary of a young student glider pilot in 1929, first Ontario 500 triangle.

The practical considerations of atmospheric convection