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Portrait of Philip Wills, Chairman of the British Gliding Association (BGA)
Philip Aubrey Wills CBE (26 May 1907 – 16 January 1978)[1] was a pioneering British glider pilot. He broke several UK gliding records from the 1930s to the 1950s and was involved in UK gliding administration including being Chairman of the British Gliding Association (BGA).
In World War II he was second in command of the Air Transport Auxiliary and for this work was appointed CBE.
After the war he was chairman of the BGA for 19 years, and in 1952 he was Open Class World Champion in the world gliding championships in Spain. In 1964 he was awarded the Lilienthal Gliding Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) for services to gliding. He was a member of the British Gliding Team until 1958.
Philip Aubrey Wills CBE (26 May 1907 – 16 January 1978) was a pioneering British glider pilot. He broke several UK gliding records from the 1930s to the...
to a design by G.M Buxton. Only one was constructed and was flown by PhilipWills at competitions in Europe between 1935-7. The sole Buxton Hjordis was...
December 21, 2018, Wills was invited to become the 218th member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was inducted on January 11, 2019. Wills was born in Blue Ridge...
rules football, and a former independent politician elected at the 1992 Wills by-election. Cleary first came to notice as a prominent player and coach...
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout...
(March 29, 1999) series "on the 100 most influential people of the century" Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Aviation Week Laureate Award, April 1999 Commemorated...
Choisnet-Gohard (1951) Charles Atger (1952) Victor Iltchenko (1953) PhilipWills (1954) Joachim Küttner (1955) Paul MacCready (1956) Don Luis Vicente...
stage name to Tape Face, Wills auditioned and got through to the next round. In Week 8 of AGT, during the Judges' cuts round, Wills successfully auditioned...
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moving to vocal duties, and the recruitment of Means Well drummer Josh Wills as well as the members' long time friend Adam Russell on bass duties, despite...
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produced the Yorkshire Gliding Club, based at Sutton Bank, near Thirsk. PhilipWills and Fred Slingsby negotiated the lease of the land at Sutton Bank. With...
Stanley Marshall Cook St Albans Jack Watts Neville Pickering 501 Eric PhilipWills St Kilda Jim Barnes Bill Fraser 791 Jim Barnes Stratford Thomas Murray...
to using the name Wills some years later. Following her divorce, Wills had a relationship with actor Philip Michael Thomas. Wills and Thomas had two...
Choisnet-Gohard (1951) Charles Atger (1952) Victor Iltchenko (1953) PhilipWills (1954) Joachim Küttner (1955) Paul MacCready (1956) Don Luis Vicente...
member at several World Gliding Championships. For many years she and PhilipWills administered British gliding until the members felt that a change was...
June 2013. "Scott Wills Biography". nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 14 June 2013. "Bus Stop". theatreview.org.nz. Retrieved 16 June 2013. Scott Wills at IMDb...
Master of Elphinstone, the bride's first cousin The Hon. Mrs. Jean Wills and Mr. John Wills, the bride's first cousin and her husband The Hon. Mr. and Mrs...
simple method of measurement was described by the British orthopedist PhilipWilles and is performed by using an inclinometer. The lumbosacral joint, between...
notable instructors at that time included Ann Welch, Lorne Welch and PhilipWills. All of them went on to become British champions. A war-surplus barrage...
Philip III (Spanish: Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia...
DFS Weihe 1950 Örebro Open Billy Nilsson DFS Weihe 1952 Madrid Open PhilipWills Slingsby Sky Hanna Reitsch was bronze, the first woman to compete. Two...
Philip Jonathan Perry (born October 16, 1964) is an American attorney and was a political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush. He was acting...
Helmut Reichmann Ingo Renner Richard Schreder Karl Striedieck Ann Welch PhilipWills "FAI Gliding Commission – IGC". Archived from the original on 2012-04-14...
"Philip Lehman Mansion" and designated as a New York landmark in 1981. Lehman began collecting major artworks in 1911, the bulk of which he willed to...
World Cup which was branded the "Wills World Cup" and thereby achieved a high level of brand recognition for the Wills cigarette brand in India where young...
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