"leszekkorpus" wrote in message
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Thanks for all answers.
Can I get this copy (Third (International) edition, published in 1977 by
John Murray.)
because in web site http://www.amazon.co.uk/ ( Meteorology for Glider
Pilots) I can get old issue - 1961. What is difference between publication
with 1977 and 1961?


The ISBN number for the 3rd Edition of "Wallington", is 0 7195 3303 1, but
I suspect that it is now, unfortunately, out of print and you would you need
to obtain it via a library - if this is possible for you - or from a
secondhand source if you were prepared to take that choice.

Google or Yahoo searches for the ISBN number, or the name of the author, or
title of the book, in fact produce quite a lot of hits. But all the
secondhand copies that appear to be available from websites seem, as you
say, to be earlier editions, not the third edition. (I just checked on the
web).

In answer to your specific question, the third (1977) edition's Preface
explains that the newer version includes additional material relating, for
example, to thermal shifts in wind shear, 'thermal' and shear wave,
convergence lines, etc. Much of this material is based on actual experience
by pilots and reflects Wallington's further involvement in gliding. The
organisation of the book was also restructured, creating a more logical and
easily followed ordering of chapters. The later book contains 26 chapters
that follow a sequence covering General met. - Gliding met. - Weather
forecasts - Technical Notes.

I felt that I owed you that explanation, having stimulated your interest in
the book!

If you cannot obtain it, I would in any case also endorse others'
recommendations of Tom Bradbury's excellent "Meteorology and Flight: A
pilot's guide to weather" which I am sure you would find interesting and
useful. This book also contains a large amount of gliding-related material,
and in fact its author previously wrote a number of very good articles on
gliding meteorology and weather, that were published in the UK Gliding
magazine, "Sailplane and Gliding" during the 1980s. The book is currently in
print and is available from amazon.co.uk and other sources.