Sailplane & Gliding 1966 - Lakes Gliding Club

ing better conditions than materialized,
ITaving heard stories of fabulous pTairie
soaring, but the normal booming prairie
soaring did not come our way during
those days. Nonetheless, some national
records went by the board, inclUding
the 200 and 300 km. !Tiangles.
The new national champion is Wolf
Mix, a champion of a few years ago.
Who said they never come back? His
flying was amazingly consistent, winning
on four of the seven days. For technical
interest, he was flying an Austria SH.
The team winners were two Ontario
pilots, Peter Trounce and Hal Wemeburg,
flying a Ka-8.
A number of air cadets were present
to help on the field and on retrieves.
This is the first time the experiment" was
made, but it seemed to work well, and
we hope it will be repeated at future
contests.
It is notable that the contcst took
place on a controlled international airport.
This imposed certain restrictions
on movements, but everyone seemed to
rise to the occasion and behave themselves
- just to show it is possible. On
their hand. the control operators did
their part to co-operate, and perhaps
turned a blind eye to aD occasional
minor technical infraction.
In the meantime an air cadet introduction
programme at Penhold, Alberta
seems to be quite successful. Two-seat
sailplanes have been drawn to it from
as far as Vancouver, on the west coast.
Some of the clubs operating it m.ust
have. restricted. their normal operation,
but It surely IS an i.nvestment in the
future of soaring as a whole. Not many
of fhe cadets exposed to soaring will
follow it now, but in Len or twenty years
they will remember.
ONTAERO
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
N
ATIONAL CHAMPIONSffiPS. - These
were flown at Vrchlabi from 22nd
May to 5th June. East Germany, Hungary,
Poland and Yugoslavia each contributed
one visiting pilot.
The first task, a 102 km. Triangle,.
was won by R. Mestan at 60.0 km./h.;
the second, a 204 km. Out-and-Return,
by F. Kadlcik at 72.4 km./h. Next, a
203 km. Triangle was won by M. Svo-
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boda at 54.6 km./h.; he rose to the overall
lead after the next task, though he
did not win it - it was a 103 km. Race,
won by H. Rakowski of E. Germany at
98.1 km./h. Then F. Matousek won a
115 km. Triangle at 80.1 km./h.
A 500 kilometre Triangle was set as
thc Sixlh task. The wind was variable
on the ground, 030/06 at 1,000 m., and
36Q/I0 at 2..000 m. No ODe completed
it, but five pilots covered 486 km. and
got 1,000 PQints each; the shortest distance
Was 274 km., and one pilot was
disqualified for an unstated reason.
After a seventh task, a 123 km. Triangle,
Milan Svoboda was still in the
overall lead, so became National Champion.
Since 1951 he had made 4,000
flights, flown 1,450 hours and covered
27,000 km., .and he has also put in
450 hours with power. Jaroslav Novak
and Frantisck Matousck were named
Vice-Champions. Leading scores:
Svoboda 5504 Mestan 4979
Novak 5452 Honzik 4276
Matousck 5185 Satny 4719
Of the visitors, Rakowski (E. Ger.)
came 21st, Petroczy (Hung.) 22nd, Jakob
(PoI.) 33rd, and Gatolin (Yugosl.) 38th.
Lelec1vi
Types flown: Orlik (all Czech pilots),
Libelle Laminar (E. Ger.), A-IS (Hung.),
Foka 4 (Pol.), Delfin (Yugos1.).
DENMARK
D
ANISH B-CHAMPIONSHIPs.-Since 1951
the Danish National Gliding Championships
have taken place every second
year with a growing nllmber of participants.
They will still continue so, but in
the intervening years a sor·t of "League
2", or as we call it B-Competition, is
now being flown with the idea to let new
people get an opportunity to fly a real
competition, and the best each year will
be admitted as newcomers to the A­
Championships, while the least good
here will go back to the B-class.
29 sailplanes participated iD this year's
B-Competition at ArDborg gliding centre
in Jutland, from 19th May to 30th May;
that is, nearly the same time as the
Britjsh Championships. Although we had
two more possible days, only the 19th,
21st, 25th, 28th and 30th were actual
competition days.
We started with a 114 km. Triangle;