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Vintage Sailplane Association
The Vintage Sailplane Association was founded in August 1974 when several owners of classic old sailplanes met at Harris Hill in Elmira, New York, for the first vintage sailplane regatta. Since then the original membership of ten has grown to over three hundred and spread far beyond our borders to Europe and the Australian Continent. The V.S.A. has become part of a "net-work" of similar clubs in England, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, Hungary, and Australia, through which information about hard-to-get parts and drawings can be exchanged.
The main purpose of the association is to promote the restoration and flying of old classic gliders and sailplanes. In addition, the association is:
- copying and making available to members the plans for popular early glider designs, so that the contemporary replicas can be produced by homebuilders;
- providing microfilm copies of famous and obscure sailplane designs and plans to the National Air & Space Museum and the National Soaring Museum at no cost in order to assure archival retention of the important aspects of soaring history in appropriate repositories;
- contacting significant personalities from the history of gliding and obtaining their knowledge for archival collections;
- supporting broadly the activities of the National Soaring Museum; and
- establishing, through the pages of its newsletter BUNGEE CORD, a forum for interesting articles concerning VSA activities, and a clearing house for information for use of all members and others interested in vintage sailplane history, restoration and flight.
For further information, contact the Vintage Sailplane Association, Inc. The Association address is published each month on page 1 of SOARING Magazine.
More information is also available at the Vintage Sailplane Association web site at: http://www.iac.net/~feguy/VSA/
