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Old 28-04-2005   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by duncan
Another one I liked was a stylised glider in a circle , gold and black. May have been BGA, British Gliding Assn., fore-runner of BARCS ?
*** Long before the BMFA were on the scene with their insurance for modellers,there was another organisation which was called the NGA ( National Guild of Aeromodellers) they had this crackpot insurance scheme which made a payment for a fly-away model ! you can imagine that the scheme was relatively short lived,there were some advertisements in forties Aeromodellers for it.
I think that it was aimed at the big 'gassies' then coming in from America,petrol engines par excellence.
Anyone who has flown free-flight will know the big risks of loosing models.
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