Circa 1908 José Weiss designed and built tailless gliders, and Eric Gordon England became an assistant to Weiss.
On 27 June 1909, Gordon England flew a Weiss glider (named Olive after one of Weiss’s five daughters), at Amberley Mount, Sussex, on a height-gaining flight that reached 100 feet. It is the first recorded soaring flight, and is considered to be the birth of the sport of Gliding.
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