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The British Gliding Association (BGA) is the governing body for gliding in the United Kingdom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the BGA ) 〕 Gliding in the United Kingdom operates through 85 gliding clubs (both civilian and service)〔 which have 2,310 gliders and 9,462 full flying members (including service personnel), though a further 17,000 people have gliding air-experience flights each year.〔 〕 ==History== A gliding event first occurred in the UK on a hill at Itford in East Sussex in 1922. The meeting was largely a publicity stunt by the ''Daily Mail'' newspaper which had offered a prize of one thousand pounds for the longest flight. However little gliding happened in the UK for several years after until reports of long flights in thunderstorms in Germany appeared in ''The Aeroplane'' magazine. Douglas Culver suggested a lunch meeting at the Comedy Restaurant in London on 4 December 1929 for anybody who was interested. Fifty-six people attended and a committee was formed. Shortly after the BGA was founded to start the sport of gliding in the UK.〔 〕 Clubs were soon established throughout the country, many of which disappeared just as quickly, though some still remain today. Initially the BGA had individual members and funded some clubs, but it soon changed to being an association of the clubs with no individual members. Today the clubs pay an annual subscription to the BGA on behalf of their members. The patron of the BGA is Prince Philip〔(【引用サイトリンク】BGA web-site ) 〕 who was introduced to the sport by a former chairman, Peter Scott. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Gliding Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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