Vintage Kiwi AGM & Easter Rally
Posted on FEBRYARY 27th, 2010 by Robert Smits
The gliding competition season in New Zealand has been closed off with a succesful National Championships at Taupo. This means you can now concentrate on alternative gliding activities - and what better than finally attending one of these Vintage Kiwi Rallies on a long weekend?
The next one will be on teh North Island, hosted by the Norfolk Aviation Sports Club in Inglewood, Taranaki. The annual AGM will be held there as well, so come visit, stay, fly - and have your say about our future!
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VK Photo Competition 2010
Posted on february 27th 2009 by Robert Smits
We encourage all of you to submit your best picture, to be published on the front cover of our magazine, or made into a monthly calender background. For the magazine we need pictures with very high resolution, portrait layout of course. For the calender anything will do, landscape layout please!
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Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Ian Dunkley
The Vintage & Classic Glider Club of New Zealand has achieved a lot in the past few years of it's existence. Founded by Ian Dunkley, and after a few years of hard work we can now look at a very impressive organisation. Rallies and meetings are organised on both Islands, a National Rally gathers annually VK enthusiasts from all over the country. A growing number of gliders have, sometimes litterally, been saved from the bonfire or chainsaw, and been restored to almost airworthy display standard. Archives have been started to preserve documentation, photographs and other media about New Zealand's Gliding History. Museums around the country have now historic gliders on display. And most important: Vintage Gliders are now being restored, and regularly being flown at Rallies. And still new initiatives are launched to keep our Gliding Heritage alive; the latest being Vintage Gliding Youth.
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