Philip Wills
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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） 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 Wills was from a wealthy family in the shipping and export business.
There is a story that when he became an executive, he installed internal windows in offices in case staff were reading books or falling asleep in working hours.
At the age of 21 he was able to buy his first aircraft, a de Havilland DH.60 Moth.
On 20 January 1929 he was injured when his Moth （G-EBPS） crashed at Duxford Aerodrome, in which the other pilot was killed.
He later purchased a replacement Moth （G-EBOI）.
He later bought and flew a twin-engined GA Monospar General Aircraft Monospar.
He began gliding at the London Gliding Club in 1933.
On 18 March 1934, he set two records in a DFS Professor; these were the British National Gain-of-Height gliding record of 3,800 feet, and a Distance record with a flight of 56 miles from Dunstable Downs to Latchington, Essex.
He was just beaten to the first British Silver C B...
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