Sailplane & Gliding 1966 - Lakes Gliding Club

THE GERMAN NATIONALS
EARLY a hundred thousand miles
N - actually 154,000 kilometres ­
were flown on teD contest days by 15
Open Class and 49 Standard Class pilots
during the 13 days of the 1966 German
National Championships_ Seven of these
contests were on consecutive days, and
were foHowed, not surprisingly, by a
rest day, while on the two remaining
days tasks were set but not flown.
The meeting was held at Roth, near
Nuremberg. The Ai.r Force and the Army
took a large part in the organisation
and provided the tugs. Sailplane types
most largely represented were: in the
Standa.rd Class, 26 Ka-6 and 6E, 8 Phoebus
and 4 SF-27; in the Open Class,
4 SHK, 3 HUtter Libelle, 2 D'36, and all
the rest were differeol. The only foreign
participant was Claude Gavillet from
France, with an Edelweiss.
SUNDAY. 29TH MAY.-Heavy showers
in a verv' unstable northerly wind from
Scandina-via prevented a IS3·km. triangle
being flown.
MONDAY, 30TH MAY.-First contest
day: a 153-km. Triangle via Hesselberg
and Rothenburg; this was yesterday's
triangle, but as the showers had moved
eastwards and been replaced by good
cumulus and excellent thermals, pilots.
were told to fly round it twice, making
306 km., and 58 of the 64 did so. In the
Open Class Rolf Spanig in a BS-l (a
HUtter fibreglass type) averaged 80.9
km./h. and W. Schneider 80.8 in a D­
36 V2. All exceeded 66 km./h. except
one who did 58.7, one who went once
round and one who didn't. In the Standard
Class Hans-W~rner Grosse made
75.7 km./h. in a Ka-6.
TuESDAY, 31ST MAY.-Goal-and-
Return Simbach bei Landau. 280 km. in
all. Still a northerly airstream but a
different air ma~s bringing much overcast;
many got then:: but no one got
all the way back. The outward journey
against the wind took a long time, though
it was helped by some breaks in the
overcast which allowed cumulus to form;
but the overcast got worse on the return
journey. All but two of the Open Class
reached the turning-point and K. Hillebrand
covereD the longest distance,
245 km., in a Hiitler Libelle (H-301). In
the Standard Class Glockl made 241 km.
in a Phoebus (all-plastic).
WEDNESDAY, 1ST JUNE.-A north-west
wind bringing North Atlantic air via the
North Sea brought showers again. The
task, a 383-km. Triangle, took the pilots
S.W. to Nabem (Teck), then N. to
Hettstadt, then back, so they had. the
day's best thermals for the into-wind leg.
But speeds awng the course varied
greatly: sometimes the going was fine;
at other times they had to wait for
thermals to boil up under the blue. Only
9 in the Open and 7 in the Standard
completed the course; fastest were
Spanig (69.5) and Grosse (65.9) respectively.
THURSDAY, 2NI]) JUNE.-Goal-and-
Return Goppingen Army Airfield,
246 km. in all. The N.W. wind was
stronger, thermals were torn and there
was little cumulus development. Only
5 in the Open Class succeeded, Waibel
doing best at 53.2 km./h., and 5 in the
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