Sailplane & Gliding 1966 - Lakes Gliding Club

"4 came through, Karsten Christensen
fastest at 55,6 km./h., flying a Vasama.
On the 21st only three came back from
a 126 km. Out-and-Return to the SQutb,
teif CQrr.don (Vasama) winning with
33.6 km./h.
After three impossible days, the 25th
was overcast and not very promising,
but the Free Distance showed it possible
to fly farther north in Jutland than ever
before. Kreld Wiehe (Ka-6CR) won with
201 km., only 10 miles from the most
northern point of Denmark, Skagen.
The next days tbe weather maps
tended towards the famous "north
situation" with an anticyclone over
Great Britain and Western Norway and
a low over the Baltic. This situation is
anticipated late in April or at the beginning
of May, but has been absent for
several years. What luck to get it for
a competition!
On tbe 27th the wind was from the
north, but with low stratus until the
eventng; but on Saturday, 28th, the
morning brought a strong north wind,
wonderful cold, and a, dear blue sky.
The task-setter, Ejvind Nielsen, told the
competitors to pass a turning-point at
Tonder in the south-western corner of
Jutland and then do whatever they
wanted!
Launching with the four Air Force
KZ-VII's did not start until 09.42, which
~as about half-an-hour later than pos­
Sible, and at the same time Aage Dyhr
Thomsen took off outside the contest
for. perhaps 'his tenth try at the 500 km.,
which only Niels Sejstrup had ever done
from DeJlmark, flying 504 km. in 1962
In l!le same Lom Libell'e which is now
owned by Dyhr Thomsen.
Although the turning-point was not
!Uuch outside a straight downwind flight,
lit meant difficulties eSl?ecially f?r th.e
~st to start, as there IS often ID thiS
Sltuatton a tendency for the weather to
overdevelop at the Danish-German border.
Big showers forced some down here,
T
a~ some competitors did not go via
onder but went for Gold and Diamonds
straight south. .
I In. the late afternoon the map showed
a) with
508 km.; fifth Ib H. lensen (Ka-6CR)
with 501 km., so he just got his Diamond
although he had no exact idea aoout his
landing place, having run out of maps
a long time back.
Without turning at Tender, the only
female participant, Signe Skafte Mel1er,
in a Ka-g flew 515 km., once more
doubling her own female distance reCOrd.
We are looking forward to seeing her
doing this once more.
Next day, the 2'hh, had to be a No
Contest day as many had not yet
returned. but the weather was even better,
and ·a special contest for the helpers,
the leaders of the contest and those
competitors who had been unlucky was
arranged: a 320 km. speed contest to
LUneburg in Germany. Four landed
there" and about ten flew more than
300 km., a few more than 400 and one,
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