AEROPLANE BUILDING and FLYING SOCIETY gliders. (Sec. W. le Maitre, Workshop Kings Rd., Hammersmith. Shed at Kensal Rise Athletic Ground.)

   J.D. North, later chief designer at the Grahame-White Company and Boulton and Paul Aircraft designed a biplane glider with front elevator and tail. This was built in 1910-1911 and donated to the society. Because of the lack of gradient at the ground, a launching apparatus consisting of a trolley on two ropes, giving a gradient of 1 in 6 was prepared. This seems to have been used successfully.
   Later it was fitted with a 15hp JAP engine lent by one of the members. It had two propellers, one on each side of the tail. There is no evidence that the machine flew in this form.
   A monoplane glider, with a span of 30 ft, designed by AN Myers and donated to the Society was in the shed at the ground in October 1910 and awaiting the fitting of an engine.

   Data
   Biplane glider
   Span 27ft
   Length 30ft
   Chord 5ft
   Weight 130 lb