Chris Wills – VGC

Dave
Very sad news indeed. It’s not often that one man can be said to be responsible for a whole movement but Chris’ vision of a group of people banding together to look after what, in the dawn of the plastic age, was a very quickly dwindling number of pre-war gliders was visionary.
It is also in my mind almost entirely down to Chris that the VGC became an International organisation. I don’t know how many languages he knew but he could talk ‘glider’ to the whole of Europe!
I see mention of his archives – I seem to remember that he had left them to the RAF Museum at Hendon, not sure what they would make of them, however I wish whoever takes them on the best of luck. Without Chris’ encyclopedic knowledge trying to make head or tale of them will be some task.

A sad loss to aviation.

Peter