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The aerodynamic design, 5~speed gearbox and special Straight­Six engine help to make the Rover 2600 one of the thriftiestperformance cars on the road.But there's more to its appeal: a sophisticated self-levellingrear suspension unit, for example. Award-winning safetyfea tures.Precision handling. Comprehensive instrumentation includingver2600:.2mpg at cruising speed.tac~ome~er. Sumptuous cut-pile v~lour upholstery an.cl a joyous,exhllaratmg performance of 0-60 III only 9 seconds WIth a topspeed of 117.8 mph:'.',. RJTest drive a Rover at your loca~ dea!e.r or . OiVersend the coupon for a comprehensIve gUIdeto the Rover range.2300/2600/35001v8SGov!. Fuel Consumption Fig•.- MPG (LllOO KM): Rover 5-speed manual,,2300: urban·17.5 (16.1); 56mph (90km/h) -36.8 (7.7); 75mph (120 kph/h)-31.0 (9.1): 2600: urban-18.5 (15.3); 56 mph(90km/h) - 38.2 (7.4); 75mph (120km/h) - 30.2 (9.4): 3500: urban -16.2 (17.4); 56 mph (90krn/hJ -36.3 (7.9); 75 mph (120 I,m/h) - 27.9 (l0.1). 5-speed gearbox optional on 2300. 'Source - MOlOrCheek Yellow Pages for your nearest Rover Dealer. Overseas tax-free sales offIce Tel: 01·492 0881. Rover prices from £6904,40.2600 £8084 ,21. Prices include Car Tax and VAT. Delivery andnum ber plates extra. Metallic paint and Alloy wheels optional on 2600. !- -Send thi;Zo-;;on (in bl-;;;;i capitals) to Ro~ Wo-;;atio;;Service,PO B-;;; 4, Oxford, OX4 2PP fo;;brochur;- - - - - - - - - - - - - '1Name Address _•

!Magazine of the BRITISH GLIDING ASSOCIATION---------ef----Editor:Gillian Bryce Smith. 281' Queen Edith's Way,Cambridge, CB1 4NH. Tel. Cambridge 47725.Consultant Editors:Alan E. SlaterRika Harwood. 66 Maisemore Gardens.Emsworth. Hants. Tel. 024-34 4580Subscriptions:Jenny Rolfe. 1'el. Market Harborough 67084.Commlllee:A. W. F. Edwards (Chairman).M. Bird. F. G. IrvingAdvertisement Manager:Peggy Mieville. Cheiron Press Lld..7 Amersham Hill. High Wycombe. Bucks.HP13 60. Tel. 0494-442423.Cover: "Kitty" posing in a Vega supported by MikePope, British Team Treasurer, with Mike Carlton,British Team Manager, on the right and AndrewDal/is, youngest member of the British TeamSquad. on tha left. The photo was laleen at Usle duringa Competition Kitty weekend by Kitty Wicks.1591601621651671711731751761851861871891901921199204saG is 50 Years OldA. E. SlaterA Met Report on the Lee Waves of April 18T. A. M. BradburyCompetition KittyGlider ElectricsM. R. Carlton"Spike"Soaring Without Tears is HereI. W. StrachanConsumer Report - Fluorescent Paint bySpectra F. G. IrvingBook Reviews A. E. Slater, D. W. Evans, GillianBryce-Smith, B. H. Bryce-SmithA New Polar for Speed Records15 Metre Arctic Lite NationalsFinal ResultsBGA and Genleral NewsBGA Accident SummaryGliding CertificatesRacing at NewburyOverseas NewsClub NewsService NewsYour LettersD. B. JamesM. BirdA. W. DoughtyG. W. G. CampRika Harwood, A. E. Sla!erR. B. Stratton, C. A. P. Ellis, E. Warner, SheilaCorbett (reply by B. G. Jervis), Jane Randle,D. W. Evans (reply by J. S. Wi'lliamson), W. J.Dean 'reply by R. Bull), J. Gibson, M. C. Fairman,L. Robertson, V. J. Chambers.AUGUST-SEPTEMBER Volume XXXI No. 4Published by British Gliding AssociationKimberley House. Vaughan Way, Leicester. Telephone Leicester 51051Printed in England by Blackfriars Press Ltd .• Smith Dorrien Road, Leicester.

NEW' GENERATION'FAI Flap:ped Racing Class1S. Metre Sailplaneg/asfliige/3D4~ITHE LATEST Flapped Wing Section(HQ014-1642) was developed for the 304 andoffers a si:gnificant performance advantage at allinter thermal speeds. The very low stall'ing speedoptimises climb performance even when carryingwater ballast. The 304's structure is in GlassFibre which stHIQiiives the best cost/performancevalue in 15 metre f'lapped. We have developednew mould manufacturing techniques whichpromise even better profiles and stabiility.A NEW CONCEPT in cockpit design - integratedinstrument panel/canopy and ventilationsystem. The instrument panel module is structuredin GRP to support and hinge with the forwardopening canopy - a gas strut balances outthe loads. The 304 must be the easiest sailplaneto get lin and out of - particularly in a hurry. Thenew canopy is easy closing and sealed by a softgasket; ,locking/jettison is achieved using acompletely new and ingenious mechanism. Butterflyvalve outl'ets permit di,rectional cockpitventBation and a rear fuselage outlet vent providesan effic'ient exhaust. The neat, adjustableheadrest is another of' the carefull,y designed featureswhich puts the 304 way ahead.GLASFLOGEL'S design team led by Martin Hansen(one of the SB11's designers) have not compromisedthe well tried G asflOge1 design featuressuch as comfortable cockpit dimensionsand good ergonomics, automatic control couplingsor the option to instan a forward tow hookdespite the elegant new nose shape. The Worldrenowned trailing edge brakes are also retained.I IIColour BtOchure and details available on requestDeliveries commence Autumn 1980Demonstrator availableA. W. HANFREY (SAILPLANES)5 Auclum Glose, Burghfie,ld Common, Reading, BerksTelephone: 0203·25498 or 0735-292544158SAILPLANE & GLIDING

,,--------tl>)1affirn~ 00[00A.E.SLATEROn September 6, 1930, the first issue appeared of a newmagazine The Sailplane (lmi Glider, consisting of eight pages,12in 8~in without separate cover, 10 be publi,shed weekly at3d per copy, and edited by Thurstan James, assistant editor ofThe Aeroplane, which undertook its publication. He had beenthe leading instigator of the meeting in December the previousyear at which the BGA was provisionally formed.The magazine remained a weekly at 3d until June 26, 19'31,and volume 1 ended with a6d "souv,enir programme issue".Volume 2 started on July 17 with: 12 pages for 6d and continuedfortnightly until December 18, hut the last three issueswere not edited by Thurstan lames, whom C. C. Grey could nolonger spare from editorial work on The Aeroplane, so S&Gwas "given" by Grey 10 the BGA, who were not ,allowed toforget it.Some ,of ,the early covers photographed by Doc SlaterFI,nlllue1930Fortnightly1932n'SAIlpLANE.. GUDJ:RDnle.'. " ...tde.'gn 1935Du",',late, designmagazine, he regisltered every title he could think ofwhich sucha magazine c(Ju'ld possess, such as "Sailflying" and "The Sailflyer";but he forgol the simple word "Gliding", so that was thetitle of a new quarterly magazine produced in April 1950 by"The Sailfl'ying Press", directors Philip Wills, Ann Welch 'andJacques Cocheme, an aviation meteorologist who owned anOlympia.Cocheme edited the first issue (pocket size, 8 x 51-2in), full ofgood things, but 'then faded out, SQ 1 had to take over and itbecame the BGA official organ. Blunt eventually went out ofpublic ~irculation for a Itime and S&G Was carried on by hisassistant editor, Veronica Platl, wife of an oil magnate. Wetook the opportunity to get S&O back for ;the BGA, and succeededat last in ama'lgamating

;/---A Met Report on the Lee Waves of April 18The day th,at li)avid Benton (Nimbus 2) reached an absolute height o' 10 993m with a gain of10231m; 10,( which he iis claiming the British National gain of height and the UK absolute andgain of height records.T. A. M. BRADBURYFig. 1, Chart for 12.00 GMT, April 18, 1980. Pecked lines show airflow,at 30 OOOft. Heavy arrows mark. core of jet stream,-50 C -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10I, /II //"0,' /,I0'-'0'" /'cv ';1.) ////~"',c, 0/'" //~,::'"\f';)~~ //~ // ~/~" /---'\,C ~'// - - '- ~~>j° ' ~"'/(/-'"";l~' / " \1,,'"," /,,'\ ~ '~~?f ...0.., '{~~,'" ,//-'-''1

had been an increase in the wind speedsince the morning and the wavelengthswere longer.a. Near Inverness 20km.b. Over the Grampians 16km.c. To lee of tihe Kinly~e peninsular12kmd. Near Donegal. Bay 8km.Comment. North-west winds haveoften been found to give good conditionsfor wave sl)aring from P'ortmoak. Thefactors which normall'y favour lee wavedevelopment are:a. A stable layer not far above thepeaks of the upwind mountains. On thisoccasion the base of the inversion wasabout IOOOft above the higher peaks andthe air was very stable for a depth of4000ft.b. Upper winds which increase withheight but remain almost constant indirection. In this case the wind speedincreased from about 30kt at low levelsto about 85kt near 30 OOOft; the directiondid not vary more than 15° between 5000and 40 OOOft.Satellite pictures show that wellmarked lee waves occur over Scotlandon many days each year, but conditionsare not necessarily good for soaring onevery occasion. There were probablyfour factors which combined to makepossible >!'he record climb on April 18.a. Much effort was spent in finding aparticularly good area where the peakswere high and the major ridge line was atright angles to the wind. Since the wavelength was gradually changing ,there maywell have been a period when thewavelength fitted the spacing betweensuccessive ridges; this could increase thewave amplitude.b. The height of the stable layer,which was a'lso changing, had reached alevel which suiled the topography.c. The upper winds were particularlysteady in direction and the increase withheight was not too great 'to prevent flightupwind. The wind speed was clear,lyclose to the limit however because it wasfound necessary to fly at about 120klHUMBERSIDE AVIATIONWoodside Road, Wroot,S. Yorks, DN9 2BPTelephone 0302-'171005(77010 evening,s)Telex 54719'2Proprietor:FIt. It. Roy Greenslade RAF (Ret.'d)MAJOR INSURANCE REPAIRS& C of ,A'sto Sailplanes, Han~ Gliders,& Ultra L.ight AIrcraftThe same jolly service and the coffee is free!(IAS) and accept height losses of about10 GOOft between each wave. Onceestablished in wave lift the IAS requiredto maintain zero ground speed when flyinginlolhe willd would have been fairlyclose 'tl) the ideal soaring speed. The IASrequired probably varied between 44 an

COMPETITION KITTYMIKE CARLTONCompetition Kitty seems to have taken off more like Concordethan a K-8 and the first three have been a great success.One of the best features of the Kitly Comps so far has beenthe tremendous hospita'lit.y we have enjoy.ed at the host c.lubs,and the keen interes'l shown by local members in the TeamSquad and what makes them tick. H'aving said that, those ofyou who have attended the Kitty Comps will know a new mean·'ing of the old quotation "how the mighty are fallen" and realisethat our Team Squad are far from invincible ,in the face of clubp,ilots with that secret weapon ,caned "local knowledge".Competition for that holiday in Barbados is already intense,and should hot up quite a bi,t in the coming months. So far this iswhat we have.KENT - KIUy Is launchedIII tme British fashion the Saturday was a wash out, the olllyuseful thing to come out of it beillg the forum held in the dubhouseat which the Team Squad members, Bernard Fitchett andAndrew Davis, answered questions from a number of the clubmembers and ,expounded their views on the importance of theBri,tish Team and its aims and achievements.Sunday was better, and despite pessimistic forecasts 1Iintrepid aviators set forth on a 103km triangle, Darwell Reservoir,West Mailing Airfield. Three eventually finished, withTony Moulang the winner in his ASW-,15 with a handicappedspeed of 501

65.9km/h. Not surprisingly, the Team Squad pilots (BrianSpreckley and Alister Kay) proved their supremacy on theirown ground, not on.y on the first day but also on the second daywhich was won by Pete Marshal! with a handicapped speed of72 km/h oVer a 137kllltriangle, Didcot, SiI'verstone. It probablygoes without saying tbat tfue significance of the Team Squad isnowhere appreciated better than at 8oo~er w,here no fewer thannine Team Squad pilots hang their parachutes.130kmBoOker - May 17-18, 1980 O/R 137km triangleH'cap H'cap T,otalPos Pilol Glider Speed PIs Speed PIs Pts ASS1 B. Spreckley2 A. Kay3 A. Lincoln4 R. AshursVASW·20ASW·20FPIt( 20e80.568.965.9p, Marshall ASW-20L 48.45 N. Woodward ASW-19 51.66 C, Scarborough Kestrel 19 48.97 T. Cockett Jantar 50.08 C. Aldis StdCirrl,ls 42.99 T. Wathen Std Libel1e 42.010 B. Chaplin Std Cirrus 36.011 'I. BarlowlC, Evans K-6E 41.812 W. longstaff Dart 17 39.1R. Clarke Std Jantar -A. Fleming Nimbus 60.8 568f. Shepherd Vega 56.2 527742 79.6 7921534 1.05639 75.6 7511390 .95613 63.0 6231236 .85458 72.0486 67.6463 63.1472 62.1409 61.3401 58.4386 57.97151173 .806701156 .796241'087 .746131085 .746061015 .69575 976 .67571 957 .66400 54.0 530 930 .64386 53.9 530 916 .6364.1 634ASS winner, A. Uncoln .85; runner up, P. Marshall .80.ASS = average squad score.Note: Due to lack of landing reports, only the scores of finishers onboth days (or those who' flew only one day) are shown. There were25 entries (1'9 finishers) 001 Day 1 and 20 entries (13 finishers) onDay 2.The World FamousCAMBRIDGEVARIOMETER SYSTEMSand theIRVING TOTAL ENERGYUNIT£9.55 inc VAT + 50p p&pare avaHable fromS,OUTHDOWN AEROSERVICES LTO.LASHAM AIRFlELDALTON, HANTSTelephone Herriard (025 683) 359August/September 1980 163

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GLIDER ELECTRICSor Wiggly Amps Rule OK?"SPIKE""There's always another way to do it" I said to our SquadronEngineer, who is also technical member for the gliding club hereat Yeovilton. The subject under discussion was the RN & RMGSA's latest fleet addition - a PIK-20o, and the installation ofall electrical system of professional quality to match the rest ofthe panel installation.Apart from finding a suitable main battery, the knotty oldproblem of dry batteries for the mini PZL T-&-S and where toput them was causing a bit of head scratching, to say nothing ofthe price ofdry batteries these days. The thought ofa corrodingold bell battery loafing inside the panel amoogst all those lovelynew instruments, held in by a chunk of bungey and a tally bit of"electric string", just didn't seem right. We knocked the problemback and forth for a while and came up with tile followingrequirements:a. The system must be simple to use.b. Any changing of batteries/fuses etc should be possible withoutdismalltling the instrument pod.c. Charging facilities should be built in, to minimise bits andpieces which could get left behind.d. In flight warning of battery failure.e. Power on indicator for T-&-S.Main Power SupplyThe most suitable battery available was a pair of small 12vlead-acid batteries connected in parallel giving an 8amphourcapacity. A mains charger was built into the battery box to fulfilone of the above requirements and for two further reasons.First. by siting the mains input in an inaccesible positioo it isnecessary even for an unthinking person to remove the assemblyfrom the airframe before charging. (Believe me, people do itand sulphuric acid vapour and gliders do not mix.) Secondly thecharger itself is designed to charge the cells at the correct currentthus preventing damage by cooking the battery on the25amp charger at Fred Bloggs garage down the road.A master fuse and circuit breaker then separate the batteryfrom the main power cable which, via a plug and socket, runsforward to the base of the instrument pod. Here together withpress to transmit and microphone cables, it is connectedthrough an 8 pin socket '10 the panel. Thus the instmment pod inits entirety can 'be ,quickly removed for servicing by disconnectingthe usual pressure instrument connector, aerial lead and asingle electrical connector.Once inside the pod the 12v power is distributed via panelfuseholders accessible from outSide, to the radio, horizon andelectric vario. A further lead is run to an auxiliary power unitdescribed below.Auxiliary Power SuppliesAfter I had disappeared into the workshop for Cl couple ofevenings and consumed a few feet of solder and several squareinches of printed circuit hoard. a small auxiliary power supply(APS) was developed, powered from the main 12v supply andproviding the following facilities:I. 5v supply for mini PZL T-&-S.2. Automatic charging for a N ICAD emergency T-&-Sbattery.3. Main ballery voltage sensor and low voltage warning.The 5v primary T-&-S supply uses an integrated circuit voltageregulator. These units are simple, reliable and almost indestructible.However they are prone sometimes to RF instabilityso some filtering was required to prevent noise on the radio.This supply was then taken to the instrument through a two>way-centre off switch.BLOCK DIAGRAM: AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY FOR PZL T-&-S+12v,-- - - - - ... - - _ ... - ... - - - - - _ ... - - _ ...... "''''--1I:,,•FUSE 5v,..vo LṬ.GlECURA£NTSOURCI!••OULATonH---,:A.P.S.--_ ... ------ ---- --- ---- _.......-----,ON a-wAY SWI1'C"OfF_-_--,EMEIlC,The snag with this system is that the T-&-S is no longerindependent of the main supply and if the main battery fails theT-&-S will also have lost its power, therefore a separateemergency supply is required. A small rechargeable 4.8vNICAD is fitled to the APS for this purpose. This battery isautomatically trickle charged whenever main battery power ispresent, thus there is no requirement to open up the panel toreplace it and no flat batteries to be discovered at the flight lineafter the glider has been rigged in a hurry. It is capable ofrunning the mini PZL for at least four hours and is connected tothe emergency side of the T-&-S switch.The voltage sensor and battery warning circuit incorporatedin the APS has already been successfully used in one of ourgliders for a season. It gives warning on the instrument panel ofa failing main ballery by lighting a red light Light EmittingDiode (LED). This warning operates ifthe main battery voltagefalls below a preset value. If the horizon inverter (the mainpower consumer) is switched off at this stage there should besufficient power to operate radio and T-&-S long enough tocomplete a task. However if the warning is ignored when thehorizon is mnning the main battery will soon expire. possiblyleaving you in a cloud with no electrics at all, and that is Whythe emergency NICAD is filled.Advantages of the SystemThe main advantage of the system described is a tidy andeasily operated installation which requires minimum maintenanceto keep the aircraft operational. The extra cost ofa smallN ICAD and dedicated power supply for the T-&-S is a smallprice to pay for the contribution to Flight Safety and one's ownpeace of mind.DisadvantagesBecause the emergency battery is always live, even when themain battery master switch is off. it would be possible unwittio£lyto leave the T-&-S running unnoticed, completelyexhausting the NICAD. To guard against this a small greenLED was added which illuminates beside the T-&-S wheneverit is running. This also provides a good in-flight confidencecheck as the instrument cannot normally be heard running.The only other apparent disadvantage is the cost of the APS(about £ 10) however this is offset by the price of dry batteriesover a couple of seasons. I say apparent disadvantage becausewhen we are talking in terms of a sailplane with a value in fivefigures, what lis a tenner? It is also good insurance against possiblecorrosion damage behind the panel when a dry battery diesand oozes its contents amongst expensive ins:tmments. RIAugust/September 1980' 165~LED

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turns is about ten turns too many forerecting ,the engine (the SF-27 used only3Y2 turns), but this should not put offp(ltential buyers b€!cause, lo be fair, the15 turns requir,e v,ery linl'e force and arev'ery straightforward. Average height'loss over seven engine retraclions inearly flights was only 225ft (300ft worsl,120fl bes!).A programme was flown '1'1 farnboroughto establish the lowest heightfrom which successful re-start and climbc,ol,fld be made. An approach was made,gear and flap down and using airorakes,to a simulated field, and at the test heightthe alrbrakes were retracted, enginedoors opened and englne wound out andstarted. The ignition and rue:! pump weresw,itched on beforehand. Tests werestarted at 500ft (twice), 300, 250, 200(twice), 150 (four times) and finally 100ft(four times),lot must be emphasised that these wereflown in carefully controlled conditionswith good tarmac underneath in theevent of error or failure to start. But theydo show the potential of the machine instarting from low altitude on theapproach to a large field. I fitted a secondstarter button to the engine doorhandle (see photo) which was a significantimprovement, enabling the startsequence to be completed with the righthand without needing to change hands topress the normal star' button on the Ileftside near the ASI. Future devel'opmentsshould aim for an automatic engine erectionand start sequence, ,perfedly easyby using either an electric motor or hydraulicstrut, with automatic starter operatienwhen erected.Take-off performance is good, withtypical ground rolls of 500ft in lightwinds and about 100 metres with full flapfor minimum run. Rate of climb withoutwaterballast was measured at 696ft/minover the first IOOOft. Taxying is via asteerable tailwheel and hidden wheels inthe slightly downturned wingtips, and isadequate without being as precise as innormal light aircraft. When the wind isover 12kt, turning the tail against windpressure is difficult when taxying crosswindbut if the awkward headings can beanticipated, the glider can be swungrapidly through lhem without loss oftaxying ability. At a gliding site thisshould present no problem, bUI a,t an airfieldwith tarmac ta)(yways and ATe,extended laxying on some headings ,instrong winds would not be possible. Thiscan be improved by different lailwheeland spring assembl.y which is beinginves,tigated for David :Innes' machinewhich he operates from Guemsey to gosoaring in France.There are two cautionary notes aboutHPMG operations. It is essential that aSTORCOMMIRugged relleble communlcellonTR 7603 - 2 watt, tw(i)-unit air setTR 7804 - 5 watt. dasll mount vehiclesetBoth sets have lour channel capabilitywith 130,4, 130,1 and 129,9 litted asstandard,Receivers have 8-PQle crystal filter todefine selectivity.Supplied absolutely complete and readyto use.Send for detailed information to:George StoreyH.T. CommunicationsP.O. Box 4SUNBURY ON THAMESMiddlesex, TW16 7TAMaking glider radios since 1967Discerning pilots Who wanttopperformance andtopqualitychooseALEXANDER SCHLEICHERS ASW 20and remain amongst the leadersTo date 1980's Nationa/15 metre c.lass successes include: .,Australia 1st and 3rd places Germany 2nd, 3rd and 4th pl.acesBelgium 1st and 2nd places Great 'Britain 1st placeDenmark 2nd, 3rd and 4th places New Zealand 1st placeFinland 1st and 2nd places Switzerland 1st and 2nd placesIf you too are a discerning prospective purchaser then write to Schleichers sole U,K. agentsJ. R. JefhiesLONDON SAILPLANES LTDTring Road, Dunstable, Beds.for details of any of $chterchers current range of glidersASK 21 GRP Two-seater t,rainerASW 19 Club Fixed wheel, early solo performance gliderASW 19 World Championship wirming Standard Class gliderASW 20 15 metre class competitive machineASW 20 L Extended Up, ASW 20 for weak UK type conditionsASW 22 Super high-performance open class sailplane168 SAILPLANE & GLIDING

field Is picked before attempting anengine restart iA the air ,and, if below1000ft, Ihe undercarriage must be loweredbefore the engine doors are opened.If the engine does not starl, or lhe pilotmakes an error of switching, the glidercan then be landed safely in the selectedfield. This procedure should be practisedregularly so that an approach with theextra drag of the extended engine can besafelly flown (glide angle is abOllt 116 withengine out, about the 'same as a T-2!1). Ifthe engine does not start, under no circumstancestry and wind it ill (unless,say aboveI500fl). It willl only causemore panic in the cockpit and make amajor misjudgment of the fieI'd liand'ingmore like'ly.The ROTAX engine ,in Ihe P1K hasre-started easily on all occasions, exceptonce when I was practising restarts andhad the engine neither hot nor cold but alan awkward intermedia1etemperalure.lot was easy to open the brakes and landahead when this happened, but you needa larger than normal' field (say 2000ftlong) to do lhis from heights below 500ftagll, and retain the option ofan easy landingstraight ahead if Ihe engine does notstart. from higher altitudes a normalfield will do, lowering the gear and commencingthe restart procedure from, .theend of the downwind l'eg, as a higlil final'sturn is commenced. I c~lI1not recommendtoo strongly that H PM G pilots practisethis regularly so that they are not caughlout away from base, and twtil practise isgained, do nol try and restart below 600ftagl.The other cautionary tale is abouttaking-oft' from fields. If one is unfortu.nate enough to land in a fiel'd, there isevery temptation to take-off again. If thefield has a good firm surface this is perfectlysafe, but long grass, soft ground,or uphill slope will ,easily dOl!lble or ,treblethe lake·off run with possibly disastrousresults, particularly if Irees, wires orhouses are on the oversnool. The moralis to pace out the field !o check for adequatelength, and set an acceleralioncheCk, below which tihe take-off will beabandoned. At least 30kt lAS after ,I2secis a suitable minimum acceleration figurefor the PIJ

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CONSUMER REPORT:FRANK IRVINGFluoresce·nt Paint by SpectraIt Ilas been recognised for some yearsthat the conspicuity of white gliders isimproved by applying patches of brightcol'o'ur (red or "flame") to theirextremities. Sueh treatment is compulsoryin Germany, strongly recommendedhere, and a necessity for entryto British Championships.Whereas plain col'ours simply reflectthe appropriate parts of the spectrum ofwhite light, fluorescent paints absorblight over an appreciable range of frequenciesand emi( it in a narrower bandwidth,thus enhancing the brilliance. So,when Spectra announced their fluorescentpaints in aerosol cans for DIYapplication, the HGA Technical Committeethought that they could well besuisable for applying conspicuity markingsto sailplanes., Messrs Spectra werekind enough to supply cans of their redand green paint, together with whiteundercoat, for trial purposes.The machines given the treatmentwere a certain Std libelle, 466, and aPIK 208, No. 20. The LibeUe alreadyhad some "flame" markings on the fuddel',wingtips and below the nose. Additionalred markings were applied abovethe front fuselage, in the form of Iwopanels about 70cm long, tapering inwidth from 12cm to 3Ocm. Since themarkings were to be applied over whitegel coat, there seemed IiltJe point inusing the white under·coat, so the redpaint ~as sprayed directly on 10 the ge'lcoat after cleaning It and applying sui'tablemasking. Conditions fOf applicationwere not entirely ideal: the "BrownElephant" at Lasham forms a commodiousworkshop but the chill in Decembertends to permeate the bones. The paintdidn't seem particularly worried by theFAA Loft No. 202,69Member SSA/TSA for 2S yeaH.temperature. apart from the considerabledrying time.Several coats - about four - wererequired to achieve solid uniform coverage,and the end-product fairly searedthe eyeballs. However. there was oneve'ry tedious problem: the nozzles of theaerosol cans kept clogging..SECURITY SAFETY CHUTESIN STOCKModel 150- Low speed category(under 150 m.p.h.) 16 Ibs.Model 250- Standard categorytotal weight 11 lb•.Colors- Red. Blue. Black or GoldComplete with matching carrying caseAvailable with ionatable air bladder.For FAST Serl'ireCall 0111' TOLL FREE IVlImber1-800-527-7530Wc have an emergency parachute for everyneed and budget.Ask abool our special deal 10 fellow "s1ider guiders"-IUISH~""l","'.O""lIP O..ll.. ~. r~, .. ~· SA nH~.21"'1~1-~\"\~.AG'OV1"to......tc.r.The "pigment"(in inverted commas because itisn't a straightforward' colouratioo)seems 'to be fairly coarse and, indeed,the fi1nal product feel·s fairly wugh to thetouch. The spray nozzles seemed to besomewhat too fine and il was only possible10 finish the job in a reasonablei1ength oftime by borrowing nozzles fromother cans.Exce:lIent ',Inal finishOn 466. the edges ot Ihe spraymg wererubbed down a little and the whole ar.easwere smQothed with wet·and-dry, butleaving a matt surface.. This treatmentdid not seem to affecl the appearance ofthe paint. A smooth transparent top-eoalis avai.lable: this was not applied to 466,which flew last season with matt panels.On 20, the wingtips and rudder werefinished with the green fluorescenl paintby John Hulme, who also applied transparenttop coat. He achieved an excellentfinal finish.So much for the mechanics of application.Did ·the paint work? Obviously,quantitative tests are very difficult toorgani&e, so we didn't try. But it wasquite dear that 466's nose was a veryconspicuous object. At a distance of, say2oom, it was markedly more startlingthan anyttling else in sight. I myself didnot have the opportunity to observe it inthe air from another glider but ,the evi·dence of others is ,that it was highly conspicuous.The green on 20 does not formanything like such a contrast against theusual background. It looks elegant anddecorative at close quarters but is by nomeans as conspicuous as was the red on466.At the end of last season, I removedthe Spectra paint from 466 with cellulosethinners: ,it had faded sli~hlly and Iwanted to see whether it had affected I,hegel coat. It had had a slight effect, a faintstain .in the white beneath, which seemed,to come off with the application of rubbingcompound. It would have beenlaborious to rub-down the complete areaso it was re-sprayed with "flame" cellulose,being rather mote in the housestyle.To summarise:I. Spectra red fluorescent aerosol paintis very conspicuous. As a marking onwhite gliders. it ·is significantly moreconspicuous than plain red or flame.Spectra green seems to be much lessconspicuous than red for this particularpurpose.2. Application is straightforward exceptfor the tendency of the spray nozzles toclog. A supply of spare nozzles andsome cleaning facilities are essential.3. Careful rubbing-down and the applicationof Spectra transparent top-coatare necessary to achieve a good gloss finish.4. After a year, the red paint had fadedbut only slightly. It had left a slight stainin the gel coat beneath.The white undercoat, fluorescentpaint and dear lop-coa are manufacturedby Spectra AiJtomot,ive andEngineering Ltd, Treloggan IndustrialEstate, Newquay, Cornwall, and areavailable at most good motorists' DIYshops. -Mr. W. R. Dan, MatkaUng Mailagar ot I.pactra.comments: We natu~ally much r~g~etthe fact t~atyou had a sample tm (rom our Imtlal productionrun and some of these proved to be faUlty. Theproblem was the clogging Of the spray tip (preciselytha.! which Mr. Irving experienced). As soonas this was dis/;overed the problem wasresearched and a replacement spray bvtton of adifferent type was svbstituted. Ovr in-house filledstock was immediately converted and all subsequentproduction runs have Incorporated thisnew spray button. Clogging is now no longer aproblem.In order to absorb the maximum light the surfacemust, by delinition, be matt and this natvrallyprovides maximum fluorescence. The surfaceof the paint can be protected with a coat ofSpectra Clear Lacquer but will reduce the ,effectalbeit a small amount (touching up scratches orabrasions is 01 course IJ lengthy process whenClear Lacquer has been used).August/September 1980 171

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[BOOK REVIEWSKill Devil Hill by Harry B. Combs with MarhnCaidin published by Seeker and Warburgat £7.95. Flrsl flight by JohnEvangelistWalsh published by George Alien andUnwin Lld at £5.50.There are three puzzles about the successof the Wright brothers which .induce one toread book alter book about the,ir story inthe hope of finding a sol'ution. Why didnobody else ill the world's ,populationcome anywhere near to achieving theirsuccess at the time they did,:? Why did ittake four years of gliding 'trials befoce theyfelt confident enough to put in a molor?And why did it take another five yearsbefore their success became ,generallyknown in the world and before anyone elsecame near to emulating them?The two books, though covering thesame aviation story, differ much in styleand emphasis. That of :Harry Combs startswith the author standing with Neil Armstrong,the first man on the moon, on thespot where the world's first aeroplane flightended, and gazing up towards the spotwhere it began. This sentimental approachto events colours the whol'e book, but doesnot spoil it, as he ,is well versed in the technicalside of the story. Every aviation historybook states that news of Lilienthal'sfatat accident first roused the interest ofthe Wrigh! brothers in aviation, but onlyCombs reveals t/:1at when it arrived Orvillewas in bed recovering from typhoid; Wilburbrought the news to OrvHle's bedside andthey discussed' aviation for hours.--------------A favourite son-..-...-----------During the previous eight years from theage of 18 to 26, WHbur had been ratheraloof from his brothers and sisters andspent much time with his mother, whosefavourite son he was; this period startedwith a bad facial injury from a hockey stick.The author freCluently puts his thoughtsinto the minds of other people, but this doesnot spoil his story, which is reasonablycomplete.John Walsh'soutlook is very dilferent. Heis a "fan" of WilbtJr, and states althe outsetthat Orville, who outlived Wilbur for solong, used this period 10 foster Ihe impressionIhat he had an equal share in the ideaswhich led to their success, and the authordeliberately wrote his book to redress thebalance. He, like no other historian, gives along account of Wilbur's childhood, withmuch documentation. and his story ofWibur's subsequent life is very full. Hegives an accounl. omitted elsewlhere. ofhow, when Wilbur first came to Europe,Orville had sent Ihe dismantled aircrall,neally packed into a crate, to Le Havre,where the French customs plllled everythingout and then, in trying to stull it back,did an amount of damage which took Wilbura fortnight to ,repair. But he is wrong instating ~ha.t Wilbur, on his first Europeanflight at Le Mans, took 011 at the firstallempt: a plausilble account states that hemade so many false starts that the crowdbegan to mock his instr,uctions to hislaunching assistant, until at last they wereabout to echo "trois" when he suddenlybecame airborne.An interesting sidelight on Wilbur's,mentality,given by Walsh, is a story that once,when he was trundl,ing the aircraft back tothe starting .point, he noticed a man takinga photograph; he .went up to the man andactually persuaded him to hand over hisundeveloped negati,ve.The, loyr years' delay in pUlling in themotor seems to have been due tQ controlprotHems, espeeially that when thewarping-wing lateral control was put on,the downgoing Irailing edge caused theglider to turn the other way. ButtMe liveyears' delay in worldwide pUlblicity seemsto have been spent in patent legislationconcerning the combination of lateral withdirectional control', and attem~ts to sell thedesign to governments, first American andthen French.One cause of lack of public impact bynews of mechanical flight must have beenthat nobody had any idea of what such amachine should look ilike. When. on myschool's newspaper desk, I saw a 'shortreport that the Wrighl machine had flown24 miles, my idea of a flyling machine wasan illustration to H. G. Wells's novel "TheWar in the Air", then being serialised,which showed the invention of a mannamed BUlleridge to consist of three fansrotating on horizontal axes, with no provisionfor preventing Ihe upgoing side cancellingout the eflect 01 the downgoingside. -Alfred Weyl, who came to England as arefugee in 1934 and set up a glider factoryin Dunstable, said that in his lather's dayLilienthal's activities were widely heard ofin Germany but, his father said, Lilienthal'was regarded as some sort of acrobatrather than as an aviation pioneer.When Wilbur senl to a newspaper anaccount of the brothers' experiments andearly flying activities. the editor returned itwith the comment: "" all this was true. itwould have been in all the newspapers bynow",A. E. SLATERFit To Fly, A Medical Handbook for Pilots,compiled by the BALPA Medical StudyGroup, 80 pages, published by GranadaPublishing at £2.25.This splendidly readable liltle book willbe welcomed by those seeking soundadvice oltered in plain language. Goodreasons are given for adopting a positiveapproach to health and physical fitness, Inpointing the way. the authors achieve thenecessary simplicity by sticking closely tothe common ground.Allhoug'h written primarily for airlinepilots, many sections of the book will be ofinlerest to the gliding fraternity. The twochapters on Aviation Ptlysiology contain allthe important facts iA remarkably succinctform, There is d'iscussion 01 stress, much,concern with backache and cautionaryadvice On drugs and alcohol.. Even the sectionson Tropical Medicine and time-zoneproblems could soon prove relevant as55:1 becomes reality ...DAVID EVANSBritish Airports by Alan J. Wr,ight, publishedby lan AIIan Lld a,t£1.25. This neatlittle gUide by Alan J. Wright has recentlybeen pUblished. Apart from all the relevantmaterial vital to aviation watchers, with animpressive coverage of the 43 larger airportstogether with maps, Ihere is an extrasection giving the location and use of some01 the smaller airfields, many of which areused by gliding clubs. I can imagine thisallroactively presented book appealing to awide readership.GtLLlAN BRYCE-SMITHWin.chancl Auto-Tow EqUipment compiledby Fl. B. Straiten, published by the BGA andavailable from them at 90p including p&p.Dick has produced a handbook Sl:lbtitled:"Some disconnected jottings and unconfirmedrandom thoughts". It is just that, butanyone wanting to know the state of the artof building winches etc can obtain usefulinformation on where 10 find out aboutwinch technology - although Dick himselfhas as an introd,uction "Blacksmithery ismore cost-etfective than technology".There is an interesting' section on"Goon-Prooling Criteria" as applied towjnches" although I suspect he is being tooGJ)timistic to imagine it is possible to make.a completely cllub-member-proaf winch ­or any other piece of launching equipmentfor that maller. The tug aircraflis tRe nearestwe get to 11, pr,imarily beca,use it Is notavailable lor every club member to get hishands/feel on it!Every club technical oflicer should certainlyget a copy of this handbook, particularlyil a new winch is in his club'stho'ughts.B. H. BRYCE-SMITHK-7 Breguet 905 FauvetteK-8 Nord 2000Olympia 28 Skylark 28All priced to sellNo VATOpen or closed trailers availableBOB McLEAN241 Bawtry Road, BessacarrDoncasterTel: 0302 55861August/September 1900173

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DUNSTABL,E MAY 24-JUNE 2MIKE BIRDBriefing on the first day."An Interesting Contest"The figures speak for themselves (no they don't! What do youthink I asked you to write a report for" Eo). Oh all right- butthey cer~ainly tell a story. Even if you had been out of thecountry during the seven contest days of the 15 Metre Nationalsyou would be able to guess the conditions from the numberof finishers (6,2,4, ,1,33,2 and 39) and from the median speedson each day (49, 49, 52, 32, 77, 65 and 73km/h). The averagespeed ofthe day winners was only 60km/h or 32kt; this suggestsavemge thermal strengths of 1\--2 to 2,kt, ,considerably les~ thanthe Standard British Thermal of2\--2kt although one has to allowfor the massive diversions fmm course that most pilots made onthe difficult days. The fact that on the first day 20 pilots failed tocover even half the course (the following days 42, 23, 12, 6, 33and 4) suggests one thing: the typical British summer in all itscyclonic cussedness. Interesting weather in the sense of the oldChin.ese curse "May you tive ,in interesting times."The week before the Nal,ionals there were some magnificentconditiollS - 8000ft cloudbases and records broken. On Monday,May 20, Dave Watt (ASW-20) and Chri Rollings (PIK200) achieved 100km/h (a lJ K record) and 98km/h round300km, Chris just pipping Dave with handicap for the lead inthe Arelk Lite £500 contest for the fastest 300km triangle in1980. (There is still plenty oftime to top that ifthe thermals everreturn!) Hopes were buoyant for 1976-style conditions in theChampionships, but those were tile last gas,ps of a high pressuresystem that gave way to the traditional depressions chasingeach other across the Atlantic, laden with moisture.Met man Peter Baylis did an amazingly good job in the worstpos,sible type of weather for gliding forecasts, which are criticalas to precise amounts of cloud cover. Cloud amounts are onlyeasy to predict in anticyclones. As Wally Walliflgton said in1964, when the Nationals, were nearly washed out after anunbroken series of fine weather contests from 1955 to 1963,"It's a lot more difficult when you've g0t weather!" We certainlyhad weather this time. Satellites and computers help, butso does a glider pilot's nose,176Photographs and drawings also by MikeBirdDay 1, May 25; 18S.3km triangle, Towcester, Bourton on theWater.Forecast~Stable north-westerly airstream, weak thermals.Cir:rus came' in twm NW about one hour earlier thanexpected.The star'! was a late one as condit,ions only slowly improved.The six finishers a'll started within a very narrow ten-minutetimeband, from 14.52 (Chris Rolllings) to ~5.02 (Rocky Stone theday winner). All 15 who star,ted after 15.02 failed to make itrOllnd. Timing is critical in cyc'lonic cunditions and the organisersand the pilots soon became expert at choosing not merelythe right hour but the right minute to get the shqw on the road.The non-finishers were distributed preHy 'eYenly over thecourse - which is by way of saying that conditions were moreor less equally vile all the way round. .Bernard FitcheU took a big lone gamble - and lost. "Ithought it was going to be a pure distance day, so I left early tomaximise time in the air and go the furthest. I was first into thesecond turning point. It was becoming grotty at Enstone aboutten miles short of the lllming po,int: 1 went in high (4700ft asl),decided to reject weak one knot lift - because I was approachingan upwind turning point - until I rounded the wrning pointat 2500ft. Found nothing. Landed. It was an all or nothingrisk."Having assured t,he visiting publicans, brewers and dubowners- who were visiting lheir first glidiflg contest by courtesyof Allied Breweries and the London Gliding Club - ,thatthe winners would probably be back not long after five o'clock,I was somewhat embarrassed when the I'eaders sauntered bm;kat around half-past six 10 seven, ie opening time, so the admiringaudience I had hoped to assemble for the spectacular massfinish had evaporated. However I did win f2 from my partnerbetting that less than half the field could finish. It's an illwind that ...SAILPLANE & GLIDING

Harvey Allen, National Brands Director of Allied Breweries (UK) Lldpresenting the Arctic Lite trophy to Brian Spreckley, the Champion.And there was no ceremonial watering of the heads of theDunstable Downs picnickers as Rocky and his pursuers wentover. There was only one day, much later in the week, when dIeconditions merited such a gesture.ITHOUGHTS OF "JJ" (John Jeffries)ON LUCK"Pilots often complain about 'flukey' days. What interestsme is that the people who get all the luck on'flukey' days are normally the same people. The oneswl10 use tactics to survive."ON WEATHER A,NO SIZE OF TASK"Big tasks are often better than small tasks when theweather is difficult. It gives the task-sett~rs and thepilots more room fot manoeuvre. A delay due toweather while on a tiny triangle can make a disastrousdifference to a pilot's score;OA a big task these problemshave a less serious effect."ON TIMING" believe the seeret of successful task-setting is to getthe pilots away as soon as it is poss,jble, to soar safely,even if base is only 18001t Or so."ON THIS VEAR'S TASKS"The fact that no uncompleted task has been set provesthat they were all feasible."Day 1; leading Results - 1. Rocky Stone (Mini Nimb1Js~,54.B9km/h, 564pts; 2. Peter Sheard (Mini Nimbus), 52.B5km/h,559pts; 3. Chris Railings (PIK 200), 49.B2km/h, 553pts.Day 2, May 26: 281.1 km triangle, St Neots, Andover.Forecast: A low over the North Irish Sea; unstable southwesterlyairstream, 5/8 cirrus, 6/8 cu and strato-cu locally8/8. Thermals 2-4kt. The actual weather was much as forecast,tl10ugh weaker than was hoped.The universal motto this day was "gel away from Dunstableas soon as possible." Crawl'ing towards the startline at 2000ft,John Cardiff called "Gate" some seconds before the line wasofficially open (quite legitimate since it is startline time not thegale time that is announced in advance by Rika and there canbe a minute's difference between "Gate" and "Line" al lowspeeds) and stole away with the pack not far behind. Twentypilots left in the first ten minutes.Down the difficult, ·into-wind second leg, the customary vastdivergences from track sorted out the smart (or lucky) fFom therest. After Bedford, Jalln Cardiff turned north to Bletcllley;Bernard Fitchett and others turned south and anded soon after.After climbing from 800ft to 5000 in rain at Bletchley, Cardifffound the weather improving steadily. Nine knots al Goringtook him to the base of a cloud street that bore him happily tothe second TP. To the west, lie said "the sky looked fantastic".Sadly John's barograph only showed a partial trace andhe was penalised 20 pointS to trail Andy Davis by three pointsfor the day. Only ,these two finished and only I1 others passedthe lookm mark; the winneF, Davis, was rewarded with a mere278 points for his pains.Fitchett again: "I left early, but after yesterday I decided tolet about a dozen start before me, crossing at 12.09. No problemstill returning front the Bedford turning point - just murk.Down at 700ft asl, joined a gaggle a bit lower than the others,who included Richard Aldous. They got away. I didn't contact.11 was patchy, cyclonic weather wi1h bjg gaps. No" I don't feelles,s happy in 15 metres than in a big ship - but you need anOpen ship to cross some of those gaps."Day 2: Leading Results - 1. An(iy Da....is (Nimbus 15c), 45.2Bkm/h,287pts; 2. John Ca,rdiff (ASW-20), 51.91km/h, 270pts; 3. BrianSpreckley (ASW-20), 186.10km, 170pts.AugusllSeptembet 1980Day 3, May 27: 348.4km qllad rilateral, Chievely (nr Newbury).,Stoke Dry Reservoi,r, Ely Cathedral.Forecast: a complex low pressure system over the UK. LightSW winds. Unstable. Isolated showers.An early start was made on this task; two thirds of the fieldwere away by 11.30, though Fitchett, doubtless twice shy afterbeing twice bitten, was a late starter at 11.42. Cardiff "wentmad at the beginning," He flew straight, only taking good liftand over did it!! Dowo to mooft, he dumped water to climb a't1-2kt under a sky full of rain and damp. The cautious starterscould be seen safe at c1oudbase.Cloud climbs and huge drversions from track were the generalpattern. Diversions in clouds going back on Irack for scoresof miles! On the second leg Cardiff backtracked about 15 to 20miles because of dead air ahead amI climbed away from 500ft atOxford. Then good climbs to 8000 to 9000ft brought him to thesecond TP.At Ely Cardiff followed Justin Wills into cloud. His horizonhad packed up and above 5000ft the total energy was uselessbecause of water and ice: so he w.as centring with the aid of turnand slip and cockpit S'latic' for the vario. Ne ....ertheless he feltv.ery happy cloud flying throughout the whole contest. He overtookJuslin, who obl:igingly side-stepped out of cloud, let Johnpass and then went back ill.Bernard Fitchell, Dave Watt and John Cardiff met. at Bedfordonly 30km from home. Bemie's previous experiences lefthim cautious, but Watt and Cardiff pressed through the rain toarri.ve second:s apart, Watt a few yards ahead, but the day wasCal·diff's. Brian Spreckley was the lasl to arrive, seconds afterFitchett, but steady flying has secured him a 213 points leadover Cardiff.Day 3: Leading Results - 1. John Card iff (ASW·20), 53.17km/h.666pts; 2. Dave Watt (ASW-20fl), 52.B5km/h, 665pts; 3. BernardFitchelt (ASW-20fl), 51.5Bkm/h, 663pts.Day 4, May 28: 166km triangle, Bedford, Newmarket.Forecast: Weak cold fl'ont clearing by 17.00hrs. Westerlywind. Unstabl'e, moist alir. Moderate to heavy showers andlocally 8/8 cumulus and strato-cu. Some strong thermals.This was the day the task-setters could proudly say was feas-177

_.The Arctic LiteBritish Notional GlidingChompionships:-Dunstoble24 May-2June 11980andLasham, Hampshire16-25 August 1980.The BritishGliding Teamfor the 1981\/lbrld GlidingChampionshipsIS Sponsoredby Arctic Lite.Arctic Lite ChallengeTrophy for specialgliding achievementsCompetition KittySponsored by ArctiC Lite178 SAILPLANE & GLIDING

lOVE, HONOUR AND RETRIEVETim Newport-Peace's clear and penetrating publicaddress carrieQ an almost continual refrain from Barbara(headmistress of what must be an uncommonlywell-behaved school,) Dean's "Crew of No. X to control,Crew of No. Y to control; .....Some pilots must have run up staggering petrol! bills,the great majority landing out at 'least five times. Justthink: it costs you a Pound for every 10km the gliderlands away from the site.My sums: Petrol' at £1.33 a gallon, so £1 buys .75 gallon.At 20mP9 (with trailer and crew) that is 15 mi'les or25km. For every 101

'A/an Yales, Chairman of the BGA TechnicalCommittee.Bi;g and Little Hands -Marshal/.John was Ihe ChiefTerry McMullin, tug pilot.THERE'S SlilLL NO SUBSTITUTE FOR tTIThere is no doubt the standard of pilotage and the performanceof today's 15 metre snips are both amazing.Trt'angles have been completed on days when 20 yearsago· "scrub" would, have been announced - or al best,a mass downwind drift. But the Brit'ish weather time andagain puts a premium on the IOTl 9', slow glide ·to a fardistant patch of watery sunshine. The max glide an9'lemay not maller on the, oonti'nent, but it does here'. Inshort, tnereis still no substitute for span. (The fact thatthe writer flies a Nimbus should be ignored. Eo.)Interesting, by the way. that after the best brains inglider aerodynamics and structures have wrestled foryears with tne prOblem of achievin9' maximum performanceat anything like a realistic price, what they 'cameup with is not more gadgets, complex f1appery or variablegeometry, but more span, viz the ASW-22, Nimbus23 and lS-5.WIN'GS APPEAL~Dl'ring SeptemberHowever Chris Garton noted a reference to moist air by theforecaster and "left as early as possible, expecting trouble."Those behind ran into curtains of rain., sink and dead air at thetirst turn. Peter Baylis thought that "wave could have beenmucking up the system by giving addilionallift to the air, causingit to go soggy." Anyway, it was the onty day on which therewas any significant complaint about errors in forecasting orover optimism in task-setting. The consensus Was that in thetough conditions prevailing across the contest as Cl whole everyavailable thermal from the Severn to the Wash was used. Noopportunity to soar was missed and that I believe is a mNeimportant objective than striving vainly to eliminate chance or"unfairness" - whatever that may be.Day S: Leading .Results - 1. Chris Garton (Mini Nimbus),69.13km/h, 1oo0pts; 2. Brian Spreckley .(ASW-20). 60.92km/h,991pts; 3. John Cardiff (ASW-20), 393km, 873pts.Day 7, June 1: 186.3km triangle. Northleach, Banbury.Forecast: An occluded front o\ler East Anglia giving showersin the morning. However pressure was rising fast with aband of clear air moving in from the west.The day was slow to build, and about half'-the field floppedback for relights under a miserable grey sky'! When the skyimproved, this became the latest-starling-task of the contest: 29pilots crossed the line after 15.00hrs, though not with any greatspeed or aggression. But "westward ho; the land w.as bright"and conditions improved almost to classic racing standard,Introducing the RS 180 "Sportsman"The Pilots AircraftUnrivalledSafety FeaturesHarmonised ControlsExtended Service LifeThoroughbred PedigreeCombining the lalest. tedmology with German craftsmanship". --TRAINING, . tOWING . CRUISINGCompare the ,outstanding featuresQuiet ComfortSwift EconomyOutstanding VisibilitySpacious LuxuryCall ANDREW STUt\RT on 0404 814160or DAVID BATH on 039 57 362SOLE U.K. DISTRIBUTORS.EXECUTIVE AIR SPORTR.t.F. EXETER AIRPORT8UILDINGS, DEVONSole U.K. Concessionaires for RP.5 and Sper'berArrange a denlonsl.ralion .night180 SAILPLANE & GLIDING

Simon Redman who finished in 21st place. Dick Stratlon, BGA Chief Technical Officer. Peter Stafford-AI/en, who came 14th.though with speeds well short of the IOOkm/h attained in thepractice week. This was chiefly due to the occasionally longdistances between thermals which reduced cruising speedsbelow the theoretical optimum, and to somewhat variable thermalstrengths. Pilots who had dropped their water over Dunstablein order to struggle away felt the lack of it as conditionsimproved.Fitchett had come into his own after two bad first days, butthose early failures would probably have needed five 1000 pointracing days to overCome.Bernard's placings of:19 31 3 =2 =3 10Chris Garton's placings:1I 21 19 14 2 I 2both show big improvement after shaky starts. However BrianSpreckley's positions:4 3 4 5 I 2 33bear out the old rule that he who stays in the first five each daywill usually win. The last score looks like a glitch, but even theslowest lini,shers thal day (Uoyd Forsey in an unflappedASW-15) got 441 points, so Brialil was right to take no risks.Only an outlanding could have robbed him of the lead, since hehad 652 more points than Garton at the end of Day 6.Dilys Yates, a gliding instructor in the USA, and John Cardiff whowas 7th.August/September 1980Day 7: Leading Results - 1. Bernard Fitchelt (ASW-20fl), 93.48km/h,1000pts: 2. Chris Garton (Mini Nimbus), 92.74km/h, 984pts; 3.Ralph Jones (Mini Nimbus), 88.16km/h, 917pts."COMPUTER - fast, accurate, stupidMAN - slow, erratic, brilliant"Source anonymousI mentioned computers as an aid to Met forecasting.They are also a great help in task-set1ing and in scoring.Warren Kay's telephone directory of alternative tasks isa master work, yielding 2250 triangles and out andreturns from 150 turning points. Not all of them arepractical- some going smack over the Bullring in Birminghamand others over Heathrow - but time calculatingdistances is completely eliminated, so practicalaUernative tasks can be quickly assessed. Evenquadrilaterals can be easily calculated using the greatprint-Qiut as the base. Circuits qualifying for badges andrecords are noted automatically.This run was produced as a joint effort (ie two separatesets of task books) tor the Booker and Dunstablesites, but can equally be done for any other site in thesouthern half of England. The programme! will do thesame job, working with the same 150 turning points,requiring only the co-ordinates of the site lin question.For scoting, Oave Brown brought a Pet with him tothe control room, ie a self contained computer for thehome or small office. This prod uced not only each day'sresults in record time but after the contest generatedthe final totals, as displayed with this report, in an houror so. Four years ago I did the last mentioned job atEuroglide by hand, with a helper; it took days and therewere still errors in it after painstaking cross-checking.With a computer, if the organisers change a pilot'sscore because of a penalty or error in time or landinglocation, the whole day's scores and cumulative positioncan be revised instantly.Scorers used to be owls, subsisting on coffee andnever getting to bed before 7.30am. Now they can rejointhe human race. No doubt there are ancient retiredscorers who will say "but it was fun, I tell you!" just assome of us pretend that all-night retrieving was adelicious treat. Well it wasn't.I181

BcI·t, ~..GCOVERING OUR TRACES~Qe9MaY~-~True to the old Chinese curse, the least interestilng barographtraces were Bri·an Spreckley's. The Champion neverseemed to get low, except on the relatively rare occasionswhen he got sunk, of coulrse. Boring, boring.(But what's he doing fixing his traces with ladies' hairspray?In my little stUdy I practically keeled over from thescent of a thousand bo,udoiifs. Try a man's brew next time,Brian.)John Cardiff's flights are.a lhorse of a different feather, asthey say. He uses dope (on tlis traces, 11 mean) and they areclean, odour free and a pleasure to inspect - whenever hebothers to wind the barograph up, that is. His traces are fullof what the romantic poets call sturm und drang, and looklike tlhe result of a slight excess of press.-on spirit. ("Nonsense'"I can hear JJ snort "you can't have too muchpress-on spirit, mutter, mutter, etc.")The Ohairman of the BGA had prOUdly put on publicHLemmy Tanner has lovely tracScotland (maybe Scots by descentwice, so you'll have to stand any,turn the magazine round to readDays 3 and 4.990 L.TaDDer(>27 MayVegareceived, assessed by the one-malrative power, drama, neatness of IBird's Barograph Awards: outrecord - at my request, I shoul'd add - his heroic battle aesthetic qualities (including smearound, or not qUite around. the big 430km triangle. Again, Cardiff first prize - but then woulcthis shows that the winners don't haile nearly so-much fun to produce,j:l trace on his most Ias the ailso-rans. They do however save a pile of money on Zealley and;:ranner tied, with aidSpetrol which ,helps to make up for their less interesUng to fly like Ca~diff, Brian and you'llflights.your little grandchildren with in ylQ30 MayQ" .June~~~

ces, too. Being based innt, too?) he uses each foilour head, or if you're lazy,his very neat accounts ofof several sets of Iracesn jury on the basis of narpresentationand gene ral'ell) I would have awardedd disquali,fy him for failingexciting day. That leavesSpreckers nowhere. Learn1 have a logbook to amazeyerrs to come.\~oIA~ordon Camp WhO~ was 40th-:; Tom zeaJley7hairm~ -;;the BG;lI and placed 15th, with his wife June; C. L!oyd Forsey, in 30th position,examining his TP photos; D. Some of The Squad; E. Humphry Dimock,I the veteran competitor; F. Lemmy Tanner, I - - - - ----IJCHAMPS FIXTfltEIRTRACESWITHEven if yOU're bald, buy some now!Don't be odd - join the squad!KI EIplaced 8th; G. Rika Harwood, who ran thestarUine; H. Ted Lysakowski, placed 9th;I I. Warren Kay and NataJie Trench; J. John I r----------------------...THE SQUAD: How did they 's,re?'. . . .WiJliamson, National Coach who came T.he .centre spread of.th.e June Issue of S&G d~splays a22nd; K. Richard Aldous who was 17th; VillainOUS crew, obV,iOusly coUated. hom police ,mugI and L. Barry Rolfe, Administrator and I b?Oks,. They ~re The Squad and snould be aV~Jded,I Secretary of the BGA.L- .-Jeither .In the .alr or around the 'Poker table. How dId thepotential Bntlsh Team Members who took part atDunstable make out?1. Spreckley 2. Garton 3. Fitchell 4. Davis 6. Wills9. Lysakowsk,i 11. Wall 12. Stone 18. Railings 23.Hackell 26. Macfadyen.Good performances therefore by unseeded RalphJones (5), John Cardiff (7), both ex Team Members, andLemmy Tanner (a). Apa'rt from noting that the top fourin the Championships are in the Squad, I won't expatiateon the significance ot this table - if indeed it has anysinceI am averse to being waylaid in dark alleys. , .The member o' The Squad who undoubtedly lea.rnedthe most wasthe (non-flying) Team Manager, Mike Carlton,who had not formerly run a contest. The idea, as faras I can gather, was that being a gamekeeper 'or a w.eekwould help h:im to become a better po,acner dl,H,ing theWorld Champs. Si·nee the organisation coped splendidly,the 45 pilots probably don'I mind: naving beenused as guinea-pigs in furthering Mike's edu

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1FINAL RESULTS OAY ~ 25.i OAV 2 21.9 DAY;I F·5 DAY" 211.' DAY 5 2•.5 DA" • 30.5 DAY 7 1.1185.Jkm .. 211.1km .. 3'1.4IufI • 1&6.lkm.& 231"'" .. .30.Skm a. '1O.7I1m.Towclaler. St. Neol., Andolllr Ctll.....ley. Stoke Cry A... Bedford. Ne.morlce' Ch.!lentllm or From•. LudloW' Notthl'lch. BenbuI)'lSourtcn-on-lhe-Wel.' El)' Cethedrel Dowduwell R4la.South M.r.lon,FI". Comp. Speed POl. PI. Speed POl. PI•. Speed POl. PI •. Spud POl. PI•. SpUd POl.PilotGlide,PI•. 59.·d Po•. PI•. .... S~.d PI•. Tot.NO.'0'(0111.1 (Dlill.) (Dill.) (0111.1 fOlet.) 10111.) 10111.1 PI•.SpretllllfY. B. T. 50 "SW·M 48.21 ,(186 ID) , 170 ..966 ,'60 113143) 5 50' ..09 ""''000 6094> 991 ., 25 JJ 542 4416Glf1'CU1, C."" Mini Nimbus (144.931 11 "7 (8120) ".. (232 08) '9 "7 11;:'343)"'"~ a, '" 9a9 6913 , . 92 T4 9a. '200Fllchen. I. ASW-20F"l (l 17 431 '0 (8683)"''7106 JI , ,.,5'''' 1142931 ,'32 8?89 . , oa, {25110j '0 52' 9384 '000 400'Dnll, .... J. ac Nlmbue 15C (12

ANDGENERALNEWSSILVER C TOGETHERNESSJane and Srephen photographed by L. R Merrm.We are always hearing about "pairs flying"these days bllt a S'olJthdown GC cO\Jplehave given tl'1is term a new slant. Jane andStephen Turner, computer operators Intheir early thirties, gained ,every leg of theirSilver Cs on the same day, purely bychance.Stephen started it. all last alutumn bydoing his five hours while Jane flew ,her d·istance.Early this season they rel/ersed ttleorder and on April 19 achieved Silverheights in their syndicate Astir. T'he distancelegs were in the club K-6E. Now, wesuppose, they will be making a j,oint attackon their Gold Cs!NATIONAL LADDERTen clubs are represented so far this yearon the National Ladder. A. A. Maitland ofHereford GC heads the Open Ladder withA. Brierley, Midland GC, at the top of theClub Ladder.Open LadderLeading pilot1 A. A. Maitland2 P. King3 D. Hodsman4 B. BatesonClub LadderLeading pi/ot1 A. Brierley2 R. Pentecost3 C. Paterson4 K. PayneClubHerefordHerefordBristol and GlosSout'hdownPIs3758317331142857Fits4442ClubPts FitsMidland 1281 4Surrey & Hants 1201 1RAE (Farnborough) 1155 2Midland 820 1"ULTRA LIGHT" GLIDERSAt the request of the Execut·ive CommitteeJohn Holland is investigating the leve'l ofinterest amongst BGA members in "'!ie newfield of "ultra light" gliders, ie aircraftwhich are more than hang gliders but notas large as the conventiona'l modern glider.WOlJld you please contact John IHollandat "Dimmelsdale", Chartord, Stroud, Glos,NoGliderTypeBGA g.No. ~oDateTimePlac~or through the BGA office, if any of theseultra lights are owned by o:r being built byany members in your club or area.Pilot/CrewAge InjulV P/HrlSUMMARY26 K·8a2262 M 23.02.80 Portmoak 25 NPil01' briefed tordrcuil and'hangar flight was14.:30launched into base or low cloud at SOD-600ft.On brealC;ing cloud he decided Ihere wasInsulficient height for circuli and continuedto approach w'ilh tull airbrake. Groundlooped to alJoid running into fence at upwindend of field.2; Carmam JP 15/36 2485 M 30.03.80,Lasham6a 1176 Canopy blew loll while on aero!ow at 600ft.,28 Kestrel 191100 Late field selection and failed 10 observesingle strand wire fence ur'llil 300'1 onapproach. Went for prelJiou'sly discarded'alternate field ,iJlith trees on approach.Raised flap "in the Inope that the leltl-:booksink really wouldn't, happen'" 10 clear trees. Itdid and glideil' collided with trees.29 I Mini Nimbus 2539 M 24.03.80 Shabdon4a N 306 Undercarriage collapsed on landing when16.15port leg fraclured. leg manufaclured or GRPand a mod issued by lhe manufacturer wasrecetlJed by the agent the day aHer the incident.30313233343S36373a394041DG·200Nimbus 2eCobra 15SF·25' FalkeSkylark 4Skylark 4Skylark 2eOlympia 28Olympia '63Piper PA 18Nimbus 2K·71790 WIO 06.0~.80 PullJerbatch15:.00 Shropshire2482 S 19.04.80 FolI,ions Farm.15.30 Norlhumberland1958 WtO "4.07.79 Stewkley.15.05 Nr Sletchley1886 S 06.0UKJ Clungunford1300G·BECF M 01.03.aO Garlton Bank?1123 M 07.0•.80 Broad Forslal? Farm.Nr Marden.Kenl1045 S 05.05.80 Ringmer14.05747 M 27.04.80 Strubby18.001055 M' 04.05.80 North Hill13.401217 S 11.05.aO Lane Farm.H.18 llandellograban,Builth Wells.PawlsG-???? M 11,05.80 Ringmer15.242137 S 04.05.80 Snitlerliald17.00 VillageNr Stratlordupon AlJon1664 M 03.05.80 Farnborough19.2034294'343324406146612720NMMNNNNMNNNNN32548057172103144223980Pwr306Selected field at 120011 but failed to observesingle sHand elecHic fenCe until onapproach olJer a wood. Altered course to leftfor alternate field with airspeed eroding,entered incipient spin and hit ground trslJellingsideways.Approach into field with '1re8$ on downwindboundary wilt; tail 'chute depJoyed. Realisedhe was unaersh60!ing and attempted to jetlison'chute but tailed to o,perate jettisonlelJer correclly. High drag from 'chute erodedspeed. pilot dilJed and collided with base oftrees.Attempled field landing lnlo smalllield wilhpower lines on approac'h. Sideslip used toassist approach 'and failed 10 (ound out correclly.See summary, In Ihe lasl issue, p _33. followingNo. 22.Cramped circuli and !high approach inlofield. Touched down halfway inlO field,struck edge of trench nol seen on approachend ground looged wl'len ilPproac"jngupwind boundary.launch failed when glide"r was al ,a "moderateangle ot climb" about 101\ from ground.Pilot released but had insufJicient airspeedto effect a proper recovery and landed healJlIyin a stalled condition.Briefed ro tly to th. hangar and land onwideperimete~track. After touch down on perlmet~ftrack turned towards hangar and did nolstop betore coWdiAg with a concrete postwhictl fractured main spar 7f' from wingtip.Heavy landing: .fter arriving just insideboundary of hilltop lite clipping 90rs:ebushes just before touch down on roughgrout'ld.IPoorly pia. ed circuit wilh lowlbaseleg ih ~owrndraug~ rn lee bf hill andslretched rinal 8PPT98,.ch.On unlocking airb(ak~s in: preparation tor afielCj laneting the Pilot heard a loud crack.The glider rolled to :the right and despite fuflapplication of left aileron it continued to tollunW it,IW8S inlJerfed in which attitude it ttilJedto the ground.Taxying back to launch ,point along edge "Offield after landing. Was 'approximalely 45~downwir;ld when wheels gOI ,,"to '8 rut.Applied power aM up elelJator 16 -Clear rulbut a gust of wind unCler 1he ele'itato' ~ippedair.craft ,'orward; onto nose.Pilot fhou9h1fle was loo tligl'1 on approaCh tofield. 'opened alrbrakes and then closed themwhen he thought he was on correct g~aepath. Glider continued to sink and undershotselecte~ field. tauchif'lg down'30 yards shorlof downwind hedge and Ifhen rolled into, it.Weak link brokeal 1100'1. Pilot lowered noseand released cable parachute and stlockrope, The sho"c'k rope of nylo'n and parac"ulecords fouled &he LIE 0' the tailplane and theweak Ijnk tilling punctured and becameembedded in the ply skin. A htgt\Lfate of de-scentwas experienced tollowed by a norMallanding. Subsequent investigation ;elJeale

42 80Clan lE43 Dart 17R44 Vega45 K-8eT-21846 Std Cirrus201313372!>O7sMs11.05.80 Husbands 3417.23 8osworthP2 2904.04.80 Loog Mynd 3515.3526.0•.80 Forden 45'7.00S 05_04.80 WalllshamS 11.031'106 M al.a-too Tophouse Farm.14.30 KiJwQrth.LeicestershireM-minor; N=nil; Svserious and W/O-'wrlle-orf.TECHNICAL NEWSBlanlk Safe-Life. The BGA TechnicalCommittee have approved an interim lifeextension from 15000 to 18000 flights.pending a further review when strain gaugeresults become available from theAustralian Department of Transport.MotOl' Gliders (and tugs). Certificated forthree years. On the Light Aircraft MaintenanceSchedule (LAMS) the C of A onlyremains valid if maintenance is repeated at50hrs, 100hrs and "annually" as spelt outin the LAMS for "private" categoryoperators - please read page 6/3 and 6/4WALTER DITTEL GmbHRadios, speakers, microphones, etc.Let us engineer you a perfect radiosystem. We are the factory approvedservice department.MARCONIGround stations filled 3 chan nel, plusVolmet. Fully solid state R/T, slightlysmaller than a Westminster. £260plus VAT or £185 plus VAT.All radio equipment sold by REF.Electronics is fully certified to thecurrent CM 25 kHz channel spa'cing. specification.Also gel-cel batteries and chargers.For further details contactR.E.F. ElectronicsChurch Road, Penn, High WycombeBucks HP10 8LNTel: Penn (049481) 4483Telex: 848314 Chacom Gfor the attention of RE F.49NN200N,'A"ExpPilot clarms altenhon was OISlracled byanother ghaer ahead' which ground loopedon landing and he allowed 3lrsoeed 10 decay10 'SOkt WIth ,.,brake. C'osed 3ubrakes andlowered nose but undershof tOUChing downIn crop 01 adjacent fIeld and through down­Wind boundary of au1ield AIr expenenceflight.N 362 CrOSSWind landing In Ilghl wmd glvmg relativelyhigh ground Speed Undercamage collapsedwhen glider ran over a small pol holeon a part 01 the lleld nol normally used forlandings.N 315 late deciSIOn 10 land mto a field 171 pacesacross diagonal With telephone wires acrossheld al half way pomt. 90 crOSSWindapproach with excess speed. Bounced ontouchdown twice before runmng Inlo theboundary fenceN 4 K-88 lhermalhng at about 800ft over airfieldN 450 was jOlneCl by the 1-218 whIch was being!lawn solo. A ColliSion occurred wherebyboth gliders sustaIned damage and bothlanded safely on the Ilrlleld. RAFGSA accIdentreported to BGA lor InformallonN 280 Selecled large lield 01 young corn 2-3in highbut unknown 10 PIlot, lhe surlace was dry andvery soH. Alter ground run ot 20 yards glidersank 10 a;lille 'and continued to skid on noseunlil wheel came 10 ground c'ompressed bytractor wheel. Glider slopped SUddenly caus­,jog 'damage to wing locating pln bearings'of the schedule. Proforma maintenanceschedules are available trom the BGAoffice.Tug Flight Manuals. Amended towingweights. Tug owner/operators arereminded to apply to the CM (AirworthinessDivision), Bfabazon House, Red hill,Surrey RH1 1SN, for the latest amendment10 their Flight Manuals, authorisingincreased weights, dual towing etc. RefTNS 3/80, para 3.6. Any queries arising onthe amendments should be referred 10 theCM.R. S. Slrallon, BGA Chief Technical Officer.r--------------,~\1\SH Tf-i~ ~~)J;\,,-""o~ '~m~· 1-.:12. ..-:;g.- ~ 0"';;0 /'/" .. /,1 '"5 '/, t~~,,,~ V)%kittyI~CCHA~~\OThe Team Kitty stands atI £5850 IPlease send contributions to Mike Pope.British Gliding Team, 123 WoodsfordIL..Square. London W14. _ JGLIDING CERTIFICATESALL THREE DIAMONDSNo. Name104 C. J. BlackwellDIAMOND GOALNo. Name2/948 P. S. Roberts2/949 D. E. Elkin2/950 M. SaundersDIAMOND HEIGHTNo. Name3/440 R. B. Christey3/441 D. A. White3/442 E. Richards3/443 J. M. Luke3/444 D. Connaway3/445 C. J. Blackwell3/446 R. B. Wilter3/447 R. L. FoxClubSouthdownClubLondonSurrey & Hants812 GSClubLondonDeesideEssex & SuffolkSGUSoulhdownSouthdownWrekinWolds19807.4198020.18.48.1198016.9.791.37.47.48.47.420.418.43/..8 J. Durman3/449 P. King3/450 T. J. 8radbury3/451 R. D. Jackoon3/452 D. E. Elkin3/453 P. PurdyGOLD C COMPLETENo. Name747 P. R. Penlecost748 G. Beniston749 G. O. Day750 1. S. Zealley751 D. E. Elkin752 G. D. Morris753 C. J. BattyGOLD C HEIGHTNameC. G. StarkeyP. R. PentecostF. L WhiteleyC. M. DaveyR. RodgerM. K. RogersonG. BenistonG. O. DayW. F. WoodwardJ. P. GallowayD. ConnawayI. J. CarruthersD. L WoollG. GoodyR. T. VinoonR. MurrayC. Reeves1. S. ZealleyG. JohnsonO. E. ElkinP. G. MyersV. J. SpencerJ.DurmanA. F. HallG. D. MorrisY. SalemM. D. AllanC. J. AlldisT. A. HarrisonC. J. BaltyR. BoydM. A. J. EverettP. PurdyI. GodfretGOLD C DISTANCENameP. S. RobertsM. J. SesemanM. SaundersSILVER CNo. Name5476 N. P.Ridd5477 A. 8. Wood5478 C. G. Slarkey5479 R. 'Lovell-Butt5480 C. A. Knight5481 J. C. Morrice5482 K. Chatburn5483 P. Clarkson5484 K~ Heinrich5485 K. C. Henderson5486 G. J. Moore5487 B. S. Carpenter5488 A. R. Joyce5489 J. D. Norman5490 S. P. Fidde.5491 J. P. Hill5492 D. C. Inwood5493 A. C. Clarke5494 R. W. Knight5495 P. J. Woodman5496 F. L White/ey5497 C. Chapman5498 J. Day5499 G. A. Barber5500 I. D. Timms5501 D. Loucks5502 D. H. Martin5503 K. W. Brigden5504 R. Pirie5505 R. Puritz5506 I. K. Pilling5507 J. C. Johnson5508 J.Duncan5509 J. W. Ballance5510 G. R. LaneWoldsHerefordshireBristol & Glo.Surrey & HantsSurrey & Hant.Black Forest (USA)ClubSurrey & Hentsfour CountiesNOflolkLondonSurrey & HantsBristol & GlosCotswold18.48.318.47.47.49.3198025.319.48.48.38.419.418.4Club1980Imperial College 30.1.79Surrey & Hants 253Es""x & Suffolk 20.'0Four Counties 253Dumfries8.4SGU7.4Four Counties 19.4Norfolk8.4Nortolk7.4SGU8.4Southdown8.4Dumfries18.4Midland'9.4624 GS9.4Midland19.4Phoenbc2.4Wolds18.4London8.3Wolds18.4Surrey & Hants 8.4Blackpool & Fylde 20.4Trenl Valley19.4Wolds18.4Essex & Suffolk 9.4Brislol & Glos 19.4SGU20.4Midland19.4Midland19.4Bleckpool & Fylde 20.4Cotswold18.4Biackpool & Fylde 20.4Two Rivers2.4Black Forest (USA) 9.3Surrey & Hant. 13.3ClubLondonKent612 GSClubKestrelBuckminsterImperial CollegeBicesterCornishFulmarDoncasterFour CountiesNorfolkSurrey & HantsLondonBicesterCuldroseEast MidlandsRAESurrey & Hant.CranwellS. Yorks & NottsSurrey & HantsBannerdownEssex & SuffolkIm peria' CollegeOusePhoenixHeronEnstoneDerby & LancsPortsmouth NavalSurrey & HantsLondonCornishEasl SussexPhoenixEssex & SuffolkLondon198020.11.38.1198022.322.35.13.422.330.36.43.45.44.43.44.45.43.45.47.46.44.47.44.420.10.7822.33.430.35.47.47.47.44.44.429.35.429.35.44.4August/September 19aO 187

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HR'ac,-ng at Newbury" -Inter·Servlce Reglonals May 5-15, Greenham CommonGORDON CAMPEnigmatically carved into the rolling Berkshiredowns lies the vast flal wasteland ofGreenham Common, iriS normally idle10000n runway contrasting sharply withthe serenity of N'ewbury racecourse nextdoor. The small band of Americans whowork there a're very friendly people, buttheir airfield is an awesome place' whichseemed a most lunlikely venue for a sportingevent.However, t'his deserted NATO fortresssprang to life on May 5 as caravans andtrailers arrived for the 11980 Inter-ServiceRegionals. For nearly two weeks GreenhamCommon was to be home for over 200 people,safely protected trom the outside worldby the secret combination of the padlockon the nOlrth gate.This yea(s contest, comprising 76 glidersdivided into four Classes, representedthe fargest BGA Regional ever held and thebiggest gliding competition of any kind inBritain since Ihe lasl of Ann Welch's 80­glider Nationals al Lasham in 1967.Easy linall glidesCer~ainly tIile airfield proved largeenough 10 cope. Indeed compel·llors weresimply briefed to grid each day in Ihe middle,and depending on- the wind directionwewould launch 10 Ihe left or right! By thesame token Ihough, some o.f the finalglides lost their I,raditional excitement as.pilots were oflen crossing the airfieldboundary with ano'lher mi'le still to gobefore Ihe finis'h, lin·e! And Newburyracecourse claimed only one victimbroughl down al the last hurdle.Although still very much an Inter-ServiceCompelitioA in spirit, there were 14 civilianentrants on Ihe race-card,including localrace-horse owner Ralph ,Jonesfrom theLalflbouro stables, his neighbouring blacksmilhAngl:JS Fleming, and the long arm 01Newbury law and order, John Young, allriding Nimbus 2, Ihe Open Class favouriteal 48 to 1. However, at Ihe las1 post BunnyHale (RN) just pipped Ken Hartley (RAF) ina photo linish (5pls in 5OO0!.) to win theOpen Class. .Ben Benoist rode his heavy white stallionexcept.ionally well to win the StandardClass hurdles, and it was pleasing to seetwo lady jockies amongst the high placingsin Ihis Class.The Sporl Class handicap slakes wereconvincingly· won by a Dart ridden byapprentice Trevor Go rely and trained orginallyby Nick Goodharl, whilst Chris Terry,a jet jockey by profession, made his debutby winning the Club Class steeplechase(no, Olney Chl,Jrch was not a TP tlilis'year).Competitors will remember lor a longtime the hard inlo wind slogs on the secondJegs of most of Ralph Oixon's finelasks; crews will remember some joyousOpen ClassNo PilotSailplane Day 16.5 Day 2 8.5 Dav 3.9.5 Day4105 Day 5115 Oay6.135 Day 7,14.5 Day 8.15 5 TotalH"cap 2OOkm. 150k,m .. 2781(m. 310k,m .. 177km .. 146km ~ 205km. 150km .. PO\l'lls, ~ale. A. J 106 PIK 200 448 54 842 740 989 762 910 385 51302 Har1ley.1K 108 ASW-'lO 588 30 797 679 92' 842 927 341 51253 Flem.,"g. A. M. 118 "'imbus 2 443 22 566 1000 965 674 840 295 48054 'Taylor. J. J. l 108 ASW·20 540 27 792 '000 500 56' 979 179 45785 Feakes. R 116,ASW-17 410 47 56' 987 819 610 902 47 43836 Jones, R 11 B NImbus 2e 405 38 1000 70' 6' 73lJ 842 295 40727 Young. J. R '18 Nimbus 2 403 6' 7'8 977 838 645 254 0 38968 Saundby. R.P. (P 1)Johnson. R. (P21 104 Janus 493 11 503 593 652 729 437 244 36629 COOk. P 108 Nimbus 15 5'0 45 733 396 379 - - -Hancock. A. - - - - - S86 '000 0 364910 Clemo. R. W 114 Keslrel 19 0 40 367 6'6 1000 593 993 '8 3627"Ja~IS. H. A. 108 NImbus 15 495 17 764 699 637 624 2'5 54 3565'2 6lshop. J. M. 108 Nimbus 15 438 5 343 679 '55 558 855 '04 343713 Kiely. K. 102 ASW-19 525 65 780 572 SO' 501 "9 28 339414 Heames, C. V. 10e MosqUIto 0 45 649 56' 512 627 933 '2 337215 Warren, A. W. 106 PIK 200 493 3' 597 571 57 638 369 25 278416 Bucl\ner. K R. 108 ASW-20 438 45 587 494 311 639 142 23 2fj7917 Ward, T. J 108 OG-200 343 9 569 423 387 647 120 23 252\18 Cooke. J. N. C. loe Vega 0 5 564 350 337 504 204 23 1987'9 Marrion. S. H. 118 Nimbus 2e 340 075 5'9 526 299 0 175920 Dlmock. H. R. \08 MOSqUllO 383 9 '60 .79 95 11O '98 0 1734Slando'd ClassDay 4 13 5No PIlot Sa,lphJntl Day \ 6 5 Day 29 S Day 310 5 146kmH'cap 90krn .. 9Jltm & 9'Jkm ..goal raceDay 5 \4563Km ...TO\a1PolnlsTerry. C J 78 K-8•8 929 490 808 683 29182 Jackson, R. 78 K·8 17 78~ 355 602 929 2592J Lawrence. S.N. 78 K·8 0 935 '48 663 601 25474 Alexander. J.M. 78 K·8 0 755 265 672 740 24325 Bailey. P.R. 78 K·8 6 879 268 448 402 20036 lancasler. O.S. 78 K-8 3 7 7 300 0 728 \7687 Spdler. A.W. 78 K-8 0 5'3 31B 0 29' 11228 McQuigg. C,J 78 K-B 11 403 0 23 211 6489 T06L M.P 78 K·8 6 DNF DNF DNF DNF 6°NO Pllol SaIlplane Day 1.6.5 Day285 Day 3.9.5 DaY·.l05 Day 51 15 Day6135 Day 7 ,. 5 Day 8.15 5 TotalH'cap 17:Jkm ... 150km ... 278km. :3tOkm .. lnkm .. t29km =:. 205km .. 115km ... POInts8en0151. J.• D. (P 1l 96 TWin Astir 460 '3 99, 912 470 878 771 457 49542 Clarke. M. A. 100 Sld Cirrus 468 5 984 882 '95 794 642 465 47353 t..-htchell. K. 99 Astir 300 47 939 854 4\8 752 511 582 44034 NewaU. Pam 100 Std CIrrus 345 11 644 6.5 268 583 '000 392 38586 Gaunl.oO 99 Astir 463 6 709 873 238 8'9 621 122 3851,6 Charlell-Groon. Mary 100 Sld Cirrus 423 23 714 87' 458 325 541 465 38207 Armslrong, r. G 96 Cobra 453 '3 715 740 298 728 495 312 37548 Fearon. W. 97 Asllr 93 30 795 798 368 566 5" 409 35709 B,ilton. D. B. 99 AstIr 4'0 9 780 781 465 0 725 369 3539.0 De.nnIS. S. C 99 ASlir 375 0 882 7'7 398 .51 364 '3 353111 Taps.on. B 97 Astir 325 0 755 '000 60 378 522 332 3372'2 Jeltries. J I=t 95 K-2~ 460 38 lOCO 779 390 - DNF DNFIRollmgs. C. C - - - - - 671 DNF DNF 33J913 Stephenson. E K. 96 Std L,belle 428 6 575 793 240 546 682 65 333214 Tootell. W 97 Astir 273 0 732 80S 270 542 669 0 329115 Slemer. P, H. 99 Astl' 368 7 683 839 0 648 6'5 0 3160.6 Davis. M. J 99 Astir 480 6 643 637 223 348 58' 0 291817 Hardy. M. if. '99 Astir 335 6 949 455 253 306 583 0 2ea7'8 Rowney. P. J. 99 ASl,r 363 6 597 4'8 223 264 222 465 255819 Dempsler. W. 99 As'ir 323 6 670 305 240 716 0 '59 241920 Harkins. A. O. 100 Std eurus 440 6 611 723 495 DNF DNF DNF 227521 Brown, R. 99 ASIlr 43 6 597 459 223 490 281 0 209922 Sharpe. G. J. 99 AstIr 405 9 98 552 88 294 340 0 178623 law. M. J 99 Asllr 0 0 241 569 223 306 3'8 0 1657sPOr! ClassNO Pilot Slulplane Day '.65 Day 295 Day3.10S Day 4 115 Day 5'35 Day 6245 TDtalH'cap tOOkm ~ 172km ;;:: 205km ... tt7km ... t I7km'" 125km = POIMs, Gorely, T.D. 94 Dart 17R 515 870 953 325 962 886 44112 Dean. M,J 86 Skylark 4 319 839 578 250 955 326 32673 Bolton. P. 84 K·6cR 2'0 980 358 273 447 779 30474 Harmer. P.M. 82 Plral 0 889 340 275 '000 530 30345 Paterson. CA 86 Skylark 4 0 9'8 725 255 363 70S 29666 O,ansfleld. J,R. 94 Dart 171'1 246 731 478 285 980 32 27527 Rlchard!lon. J.L 86 K·l8 - 707 725 255 376 '80Miller. A.$. 372 - - - - - 26156 Marriott. J.P. 86 K·la 238 675 725 220 376 345 25799 Eagles TW. 86 K·IS 263 442 633 255 341 538 2472'0 Kosak. J.G. 82 Puat 17' 716 593 210 515 228 24.35Archer. R.E. 84 K-6o'! 0 530 953 263 355 307 240812 Reecl.I.B 86 Skylark 4 210 513 400 283 725 239 2370".3 Hewrlt.I.N 94 Club llooHe '37 586 300 250 417 2'2 190214 Pilch. G.A. 82 Plrat 87 490 405 195 4J9 217 183315 Alney. D B 88 Dart 15 '20 559 520 175 344 69 178716 Murphy. N.L. 90 K·6e 0 674 400 283 240 '35 173217 Forsylh. G.S 86 K-la - 559 220 21O 350 0Healey. G. '85 - - - - - 1504'8 Marlin. G 62 f)ual 39 415 428 '95 2'0 135 142219 Mahon. M.C 66 K·18 0 562 335 78 330 6' lJ6620 Reid. A,W. 66 K-18 115 6'6 305 '98 '04 0 13382' Bass.I.G 94 Dart 17R 0 485 DNF '80 248 2'2 112522 Saunders. J,K 86 K·I8 36 574 220 SO 60 178 t11823 Smllh. A,P. 90 K-6E. 0 6' 360 265 98 175 959Club ClassDNF ..,did nol lIy.sunbathing, with one ear cocked on DenisBallinger's f,iniSh line: whilst spectators willrecall the thrill of some of the finishers,'such as Pam Newall's achievement as I.hesole Slandard Class pilot to gel back oneday, or Peter Harmer's win one day in aPi rat despile the strong wind.And I will never forget Ihe hard work bythe various officials who made my job asDirector so easy. The competition sufferedno significant operational, administrativeor airspace problems and I hope thalGreenham Common will come alive againnext year, when perhaps even the NationalChampionships could be "Racing at Newbury".aIAugust/September 1980 189

OVERSEASNEWS~:;~:: ~~~du~:::: t~n~:x;;:::'s~~s. Editor: A. E. Sllter. 7 Hlghworth. . . Avel1u&. Cambridge. CB4 280, England.GERMAN NATIONALSWith all tasks over 200km and some over5QOkm, the German Nationals with 96entries (Open Class, 19, 15m Class 33 andStandard Class 44) resul'ted ,in nine contesldays. They were held at Aalen, Elchingennear Stutigar,t from May 17 to June 1.Klaus Holighaus in his carbon-fibre Nimbus24m had a convincing win in the OpenClass followed 'by Sigi, Baumgartl and ManfrediDick bOlh flying Nimbus 2.The V!lntus (small fuselage) was flown tovictory by Bruno Gantenbrink iA the 15mClass after Ernst Gernod Peter failed tocomplete the lask on one day. !-le camesecond, and Gerhard Waibel third, both InASW-20s.According to Hans-Werner Grosse theStand'ard Class was the most interestingCI:ass this time. It was won by Hans Glocklin a modified LS-3. SecQnd in a modi1iedASW-19 was Stich and Schrelber In a StdCirrus came third. The new L$-4 performedwell and finished 6th. The' SB-12, the latestmode'l of Akaflieg Braunschweig, althoughplaced 12·lh performed and handledextremely well. The wing profile used forthis machine and the modi'icatlon to theASW-19 were both developed by Dipl IngHorstmann.GLIDING AN OLYMPIC SPORT?During the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, intensivepropaganda was. made in Germany totry to get soaring IIi.ght included as anOlympic sport on the next occasion, whichwas to have been Fin'land. To draw theattention of those taking part, a goal l flightfrom Berlin to Kiel was made by Louis Ratter.Hungary'& first Silver C pilot, in hishome-bum and designed Nemere sailplane.During it he became the firrst to usethe dolphin technique. decades beforeanyone else (see S&G, December 1976,p272 and ;fl,lll illustrated account in S&G,December 1936),Lo'uis Rotler, now aged 79, writes that helast flew seven years ago in a Grunau Baby:but Is now partially paralysed in the rightarm and leg but can still go for walks, andis working hard, 'Preparing a thesis for aconference and writing for technical journals,His son flies althe Midland GC.SOVIET NEWS.Those who attended the 1965 World GlidingChampionships at South Cemey willremember the Soviet Team and their gliders,sOme of wtlJch gOI damaged. Sincethat time, almost nothing has been heard ofthem and we have asked for ,news. VladimirChuvikoV' flew in the 1968 World Championshipsin Poland and later participatedunsuccessfully Irl a contest in ,East Germany.Michael VerietenAIkov took part asone of the Soviet Ground Crew during the1968 World Gliding Championships. At lasta letter has answered some. Qfcur questions.On their ret,urn to Russia from the BritishWorld Championships in 1965, all' fourpilQts "became tired of the team training,IOxygen bottlesAltimetersRelease ringsetc.and transferred to ,better, more comfortable,positions in the power flying sectionsof t,heir aero Clubs. Oleg Suslov transferredimmediately after hi~ return from Englandand is slill flying aeroplanes, lozasVarushevichus is flying for Aeroflot andMisha VierietenOlikov ran an aero club inthe Ukraine. He worked very hard andmade his aero club one cf the best ,in theRepl.lblk;. However, he has flOW had to giveup flying for medical reasons."This is a cruel fate for a pilot who onceheld Soviet gliding, records,"Volodya ChuvikQv". the teller continues"was also power flying. However, l:Ie had aterribl'e motor cycle accident. While lyingbeneath the machine, petrol escapedwhich set his clothes on fire. He was found.on the road badly burnt. but still alive. Inspite of all efforts 10 save him, he died fullyconscious."Vasily Shcherbakov received support tosta~ a gliding museum in the Cr,imea, thecradle of Russian :Gliding. However, forsome reason, this only consists of' a mom,In which items of gliding history are displayedon stands. It Is not yet a museum. Itis on Iy a good start."Margareta Ratsenskaya, who used toattend the annua'l FAI meeting in Paris,. hasretired but still spends some t,ime in theAero Club, organising gliding. the officialobservers, and the hang gliding departments."OBITUARVFree Flight reports the death of JohnAgnew, holder of Canadian glider pilot'slicence No 1 and a founder of the MontrealSoaring Club.A.E.S.DONCASTER SAILPLANESDoncaster Airfield S. Yorks.We have the largest stocks ofG.L.1 PLYin the UK at the best pricesAlso G,ade-A Spruce.,~.~'Phone030257695Ask June Fox for aQuoteall pilots can read - but the BEST PILOTS readSailplane & GlidingThe magazine can be obtained tram most Gliding Cllilbsin Gt. Britain, alternatively send £6,25 postage includedfor an annual subscription to' the British Gliding Association,Kimberley House·, Vaughan Way. Leicester. Singlecopies, including postage £1.05.Red leather-cloth binders to lake copies of the magazine arealso available from the B.G.A.Price £3.00 (£3.40, Including POlt Ind picking).OVERSEAS AGENTSCANADA:T. R. Beasley, Soaring Supplies, PO Box 621.SI. Laurent, p.a. Canada, H4L4V9SOUTH AfRICA:Peter Eich, PO Box 82707, Southdale 2135, Johannesburg,Transvaal.HOLLAND:Aeropress (Ary Ceelen) P Stockmanslaan 53. 5652 RB EindhovenUSA and all other Countriespayable in ei1her Sterling £6.25 or US $13.75 but InternationalMoney Orders preferred, direct to the British Gliding Association.190

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CbI Ted Shepherd (}resenting 8 picture 01 Martin Hardy in his Astir at 16 OOOlt over Aboyne last October toGeneral Sir John Archer on retiring as President 01' the Army Gliding Association, Howard Jarvis. CFt 01Wyvern. is on the lell with Andy Harkins lar right. Photo: Peter 'Grilliths,CLUB NEWSCopy and photographs for the October-November Issue of S&G should be sent to the Editor, 281Queen Edltb's Way, Cambridge CBl 4NH, to arrive not later than August 12 and for theDKembet-January bsue I() arrive not later than October 14.June 10, /980GILUAN 8RYCE-SMITHBATH & WILTS (Keevil Airfield)We have not heard any more about KeevilAerodrome being sold, so we are still hopingnothing will come of it. In the meantime wehad two very successful soaring weeks at Easterand Whitsun.We are very pleased that Andrew Daviscame fourth in the i5 Metre Nationals. BobE1romwkh and Andrew will be competing inthe Open Clas,s Nationals in August andSteveParker the Western Regionals. Wewere hosts to five pilots who ,landed at Kee.vHduring the Nationals.John Horrill llew his, De'lphin for his distanceto complete Silver C. Steve 'Parkerclimbed to 11 OOOft in wave over Trowbridgeon April 19 and Dave' Parker w,enllo 10 800ft.The foUowinJ day Mervyn Pocock went 101;0 000ft. John Catley. Alf Beck-et and MikeCox have gone solo and Bob Burgess, Johl!Catley and Kale Hargreaves have complet,edtheir Bronze C.We had an interesting talk on cross-countryflying by john Williamson. National Coach,at the beginning of the soaring season. Theclub dinner was on May 2.J.L.BLACKPOOL & FYLDESunday. April 20. was a memorable day forsome members. Clearly defined wave cloudswere directly overhead early in the morning,the wind.at ground level was NW but moreIlOrlberly at rl'eigJJt, making the hill soarablemost of the day. Members made use of hilland thermal lift to reach the wave at about2000ft agl. the wave remaining directly overheadmost of the day. Cloudbase was 4000reaching 9000ft and lin varied from 2-4k earlyin the day to \Ok later.A 900ft winch launch was sufficient toenable ten members to reach the wave.Messrs Gordon and Crossley flew to 7500ft,Tom Goman stopped at 9000ft as he had acold; David Masterson to oooft; Terry Han'ison12 OOOft; Paul Myers, Peter Philpolt, BobBoyde and Gill Has'lam all beltered 13 oooftand Roy Greason, not intending to lose theheight trophy ,he holds. reached 15 ooofl.Gold heights were claimed by Messrs Boyde,Myers and Harrison.Days such as this prove Ihe wisdom of allthe people who were originally involved inac·quiring Lower Coch Hill farm, as a glidingsite. Observation by the writer. living atLancaster over the past 4!--2yrs, suggests thatwave conditions are evident in almosl halfthe days of the year. and in wind directionsfrom NW through No to SW.To prove that we have every kind of liftavailable, Bob I,ngham gained ,his first leg,soaring a sea breeze front at Easter. Wavereturned again. this time from a SE wind, givingTom Gorrall Gold height. and last Salurdaybroughl us 7000ft thermals.J.T.BRISTOL & GLOUCESTERSHIRE(Nympslield)Our .task week at the end of May was a moderatesuccess but the weather was ratherunkind. Several members saw Cirrus 272 spinin near the club after thepilol. John Patchelt,baled out. The ,incident is being investigatedby the relevant authorities. John bad alreadymade a parachute jump previously during aweekend course.Our Super Cub engine is nearing completionand our ,tug fle·et should soon be back tostrength. After many years of'excellent service,our Terrier has gone to a new home.R.A.R.BUCKMINSTER (Saltby Airfield)Saltby is now operating full time for thesummer months and running holiday coursesfor the first time.We have gi.ven evidence at the Vale of BelvoirInquiry and are now awaiting their verdicton whether or not the proposed mining atSaltby wil'l lake place, despite our having alease until 2002.Meanwhile we are assuming this is all along way in the future and concentrating onhosting the East Midlands Regionals fromJlIly 5-13, to be opened 'by the Duke of Rutlandand directed by Brian Spreckley andMike Carlton. We are also competing in theInler Club League and encouraging morecross-country flying generally. Two syndicateK-6cRS were sold o~f site and replaced bymore modern gliders. We now have over 16syndicate gliders.Peter Wright, flying his home built Falconfeatured in the April issue of S&O, recent,lyreached 15 oooft in wave over the site but hehad forgollen his barograph.Our club was f()unded by live peo,ple one ofwhom has been our Technical Officer, SafetyOfficer. CFI and almost everything elsebesides. He is nOW a National Coach and wewould all like to congratulate Brian Spreckleyon winning the Nationals.The Citabria, a replacement for the Auster.is a great improvement, as is the new pulleyfOf our reverse-tow system.Frank Cox has become CF.I. taking overfrom Mick Webster, whoincidental'lyrecently gained his Gold distance. Our congratulationsto John Hickson and Pete Brookson, going solo and to Jeff Roberts on Silverdistance.L.E.M.CAJ'\iIBRIDGE UNIVERSITY(Cambridge and Duxford)We have a new CFI in Steve l.ongland whotook ovef fl;om Joe Whelan. SIeve has beenan Important part of the club for some yearsand we wish him every luck.Our task week was much appreciated anddespite inconsistent weather, there were sixflying days with much outlanding practicethrown in-. We welcomed visitors ,from severhlclubs and Nick Gaunt from Yorkshire, whoo s:r(J:, 0~5 •• 2SQl 4 3 VOlo0,0TM.61TM.61 GLIDER RADIOoNow the new TM.61 Glider Radio. same size but improvedoutput 10 1.8 wall at 12.5 volts.Actual size )( 7 ~" long, up to 6 Channels, normally SU~plied with 130.1 and 130.4. comple'e with hand-held mike(or Sw",n-ncck boom mike. optional ex1m at £20), speakerand wiring hame.., PRICE £210LONDON SAILPLANES llD Plus VATTelephone Duns'oble 62068192 SAILPLANE & GLIDING

new in spectacular fashion, was the overallwinner in his DG-l00 with the Baker brothersupholding local honour by finishing runnersup in their big Cirrus..P.E.B.COVENTRY (Husbands Boswortb)We. have our first sin.gle-seater motor glideron site - Mike Aspley's PIK 20E. With t.headvent of Graham Smith's BG··B5, there aretwo 13.5m gliders fly.ing around to confuseeveryone, especially when field landings arereported ~rom the airIOur first task week coincided with theNationals. On one of the days Chris Thomasand Harry Middleton (1'·21) and John Endall(K-8) landed at Dunstable just as the competitorswere taking-off. During this weekTrevor Brigdeo (K-8), John Endall and ChrisRodwell all gained SHver distance, Trevorcompleting his Silver C.An instructors' course was also he'ld d,uringthe task weel and we now welcome RoSemaryBroughtoo as our secondi lady instructor.Quite a large party are planning to visit SuttonBank, complete with suitable machines,for the International Vintage Rally from July26 to August 3. This event will be immediatelyfollowed by our second task week.B.R.DEESIDE (Aboyne Airfield)This year has so far been excellent withlaunch rates and total hours well up on previousyears.The superb weather over the last twomonths has been a great encouragement withpilots reporting 6 to 8kt thermals under 9500ftc10udbase on several occasions, and goodwave conditions also showing up. Recentsouth-easterly winds, associated with highpressure and clear sIdes, have been soared tomore than '15 000ft. With only two or threeaircraft airborne per day mid:week on average,the summer wave potential of the site is stilllargely unexplored.New: Glaser-Dirks DG-200/17We have a healthy increase ill membershipand' severali new privatel'y owned machines.Lemmy Tanner, our Chairman, is showing usthe way with his high placing in the 15 MetreNationals, and a nucleus ofpotential competitionpilots is building up' with a welcome.increase in cross-coontry flying. lemmy andBruce Cooper are looking closely at the current'British records, several of which theyfeel could 'be bettered in good wave weather.We now !lave planning permission .for ourclubhouse llnd work should start shortly.However we still need money and anyoneWishing to purchase life membership to supportthe project will be welcomed.Our task week is Ihe first week in August,Any visWng pilots will be welcome to join in.J.R.B.OERBY & LANeS (Camphill)We were grateful for the very informative talkgiven by Brian SpreckJey, National Coach,on the eve of our open week. At the AGMEric Boyle stepped down as CFI and waselected Vice-President in acknowledgementof his unstinting service to the club over manyyears. He is succeeded by John Humpherson.This column shouldn't look loo like a smugcompany chairman's report, but our coursesare fully booked!, flying hours are well up andweekends see the circuit pleasantly crowdedwith two K-13s, two K-7s and Iwo K-8s. Congratulationsto Jim Moran and John Birch ongoing solo.S.G.DEVON & SOMERSET (North HiD)We welcome one of our most regular crosscountrypilots, Julian Hine, as an assistantinstructor.Tony Stockwell (K-6cR) pioneered ,theSilver rush with a downwind 10 Davidstow forhis distance, and achieved h,is height with aclimb to 7000ft. J'ohn Brown (B4), DerryReaney (K-8) and Dave Millmore (Pintl) haveall achieved Silver height, DeITy to completeThe wingspan of this DG·2oo canbe extended with special insertablewing tips for a new 17 mwingspan. Same max. speeds,max. TOW and flap settings for17 m flying as for the normalDG-200. Max. L:D 1 :45.OG·200 - Oemon,tretor et Sutton Senk-------------------------- -- ----x--Infor,matlon coupon:Please send me your detailed informationD DG-1QO 0 DG-100 G 0 DG-100 Club[] DG-200 0 DO-2oo/17 0 CarbonfibrewingsMyaddress.August/September 1980_Latest news:DG-200 and DG-200/17 now availablewith carbon fibre wings.ToAUSTIN AVIATIONSole Glaser-Dirks UK distributor122 MAIN STREETSTILLlNGTONNI' YORK Y06 1JUTelephoneEasingwold 810255his Silver. John went (In to complete Ilis distanCeduring task week and Dave his fivehours. Several Brcnze pilots just missedSilver distance ~uring (ask week. RichardCarter and Colin Wall have sone solo.Expeditions t@ Husbands Bosworth and theLong Mynd in mid-May were SQciall.y successful,but very strong winds seriouslyrestricted flying. Our first task week, withonly two flying days possible, has justfinished.LD.K.OBITUARYPeter CooperPeter Cooper died on June 7 in a gliding accident.His name will nOI 'be remembered asone of the great names of British gliding, bu,tto us at North Hil'l he was a shining exarnpl'eof what it was all about. -( remember his first solo and his first soar­,ing flight;t:rom that moment he was fired withenthusiasm that never waned during 14yrswith us. Whatever project the club undertookhe was involved in. He had 'Ihat ability to passon to his pupils and friends his dedication 10gliding. His last flight was to che

DORSET (Tarran! Rushton)Earlier in the year Harry Wolf, in I:lis newVega, reached 8S00ft \1'1 wave over ,the fie'ld,for a club record.Much activity in the hangar has resulted inour Auster hav,ing a new "skin", Ihe wincht,ractor a new engine and a fully serviceableclub fleet. Our thanks to the usual hard coreof helpers.Frank Turner has retired after many yearcShard worK as our Treasurer. An expeditionto the Dutch Flevo Club is being led byDennis Neat after the Dutch members' successfulstay at Dorset last year.J.R.C,DUBLIN (Baldonnel)We've come through a difficult two-yearperiod which culminated in our being Qut ofaction for five months from September 1979.Since February last however we have beenthe happy owners of a new 180hp Super Cubdelivered from Colorado, which is now hardat work clocking up the launches to help paythe bank its money back.There Jlave been other changes anddevelopments. In 1979, we completed aS()()()sq rt hangar at ,Gowran Grange, a grassairfield some IS miles south-west ofour (radi­,tional site on the military base at Baldonnel.Our freet is now housed at Gowran and wehope in the future to be able to do more andmore non-weekend flying there, There hasbeen a steady increase in the private fleet, andwe have at lasl "gone glass" with the successivearri,vals of a Phoe'bus C, Astir CS andKestrel 19, all ex Germany. We're lookingforward 10 seeing how these fare in the neMNationals against the Ulster GC's Pi,k,DG-IOO and ASW-20. The Nationals are tobe' held at Nenagh, Cl) Tippe,rary betweenJuly S-20. (We were happy to welcome a v,isitingDart syndicate from' Covent,ry GC to Ilastyear's abbreviated competition).The cross-country season has producedabout SOOkm up to the end of May, mostlynotched up by the Phoebus. Our tasks are, asalways, on a very much smaller scale Ihan inthe UK. We're still waiting for our lirsthome-grown Golds and Diamonds - with allthat expensive G RP around, maybe this is theyear!T.A.W.DUNKESWELL (Dunkeswell Airfield)1980 is showing every promise of being asuperb season at Dunkeswell with soaringevery weekend since Easter, Including severalcross-country flights. On April 20 ourT-S3 contacted wav,e and climbed to 6600fI,paving the way for Tony Eastelow (Foka 4)who carried on up toll 800ft, this ,being eurnew club maximum height record.We have bought a new retrieve vehicle toreplace our w,elllloved but antiquated' pick-upvan and are discussing the viability of buildingeither a winch or reverse pulley system.Members visiting Portmoak for the tirsttime this May were impressed with the siteand the hospitality shown them by the staffand members of the SGU. Due to easterliestllroughout the week tlley returned without194PIK~20E HIGH PERFORMANCE"FLAPPED 15" MOTOR SAliLPLANE• GOOD TAKE-OFF PERFORMANCE (300m)• GOOD RATE OF CLIMB• EARLY DELIVERIES - LATE 1980• DEMO AIRC:RAFT AVAILABLE• IN FULL SERIES PRODUCTION, BALL ElECTR C VARfOMETE,RSSole UK Agency• Latest models in, stockI. Very low b.atteryconsumpHon• All self-contained ­no aw.kward bottl'es• Standard sizes 3Vaand 2% inchavai!lable• Netto, cruise,va,riable gain,variable damping,aver,ager availableAnd of course:Model 400/6• FIBREGLASS TRAILERS FOR 15 METRE SAILPLANES• GOOD RANGE OF INSTRUMENTS• REPAIRS TO ALL SAILPLANES WHATEVER MATERIAL• C's of A• WOODEN TRAILE.RS BUILT TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONJOHN HULMEBOTIISHAM, CAMBRIDGETelephoneCambridge 811323SAILPLANE & GLIDING

any notable flying achievements, but arealready planning a further visit for !lext year.Congratulations to our new solo !lilots AnnJewel!, Hilary Perry, lan Davidson and AllanVincent. lan Mitchell, Les BaskwiJI andMark Spedding have gained Bronze legs. JaneButland, Ann Jewell and Val Carter havetheir certificates. Richard Harris has hisBronze C and Silver height and Ron Perry hasjust completed his PPL.We are all looking forward to our summerbarBeeue in June.V.C.EAST SUSSEX (Ringmer)Success! After many months of lobbying,campaigning, writing endless letters to aseemingly endless number of developmentsub-committee members, parish councillors,planning officers and members of the pressand attending numerous council, parish andsite meetings, we have now regained ouraerotowing permission. We managed to reacha compromise on Ihe use of the tug, the mainpoints of which were permission to aerotowon weekdays and Saturdays between 9.30amand 6.00pm, and on Sundays between llamand 4pm, with no aerotowing on a Sundaypreceding a Bank Holiday.Our sincerest thanks to those members ofthe club, and of the public, who devoted theirtime and energy to the successful conclusionofour fight.Success again ,in the form of our open day,on May 26. Over 2000 people were attractedby our aerobatic displays, model aircraft flying,hot air balloon (soMewhat deflated), s'tallsand sideshows. Congratulations to JackieManley on her superb organisation and toVivian Nopper for ,her splendid publicisin,S ofthe event. Thanks also to all those memberswho worked so hard to ma'ke fhis a day to beremembered, especial1ly the "Hot DogKing", Tony Kerwin-Nye.A.N.ENSTONE EAGLES (Enslone Airfield)Palll photographed witl1 his father on the day ofhis solo flight. He has been gliding' sinc/J sixyears-oldand is now flying his father's Olympia.This year's task week, at Easter was verysuccessful. The northerly winds enabled fourpilots to gain their five hours on the nearbyEdge Hill. Several soaring and cross-countryflights were also enjoyed. N. Rose soloedafter only one week of .gliding and J. Procterand C. Skinner also soloed recently, but themost noteworthy i~ that of Paul Dewhurstwho was sent solo by his father Ron on hi,s16th birthday.August/September 1980Congratulations to P. Blackbum. D. Johnsonand J. Ashman for Silver heights and toDave Wilson who. from a motQr tow, attained,a height of 11 200ft In wave over BlenheimPalace.5.0.ESSEX (North Weald)We have clocked up nearly 4000 crosscountrykilometres a1real;!y this season.We were guests at Husbands Bosworth forthe first heal. of the Four Clubs' Competitionwhich turned out tf;) be an interestingweekend. 'Despite strong winds, two tasks foreach Class were managed. We thank theCov,entry CI'ub for their kind hospitality andlook forward to otherheats in the near future.We are planning open days for June 14·15when we hope 'to top our beSI daily launcbrate and cement good relalions with thepublic.Congratulations to Mike Jefferyes who, inhis first Nationals, was the only pilolto completethe task on Day 4.s.c.ESSEX & SUFFOLK (Hadleigh)During Easter week the club had one of itsmost successful ,expeditions ever when 12pilots took five aircraft to Portmoak. Theyflew a total of 195hrs with a Diamond heighlfor Eric Richan.ts (Vega), Gold heights forPete Wilby and Alan Hall (Pirat) and duralionsby Viv Haley, Ann Winteroollom, JohnBalance, Neville Bleach, Dave Gilder andPaul Rice. Our thanks for the SGU for theirhospitality and friendliness.!\. few weeks later Viv Haley in lhe clubK-6 and Steele Haughton (K-7) flew to Duxfordfor Silver distance, Viv completing SilverC.We have just finished our dub task w,eekduring which we had some good soaring and acompleted Silver by Jonathon Abbess andSilver distance by Les Marshal1. Tristram L.Jones completed his Silver with a durationand John Gilbert completed his Bronze C.Congralulations to them all and to DaveSmith for going sola.S&G readers please note that evelL thoughour airfield is at Whatfield on the chart it iscalled Hadleigh (three miles south of RAFWaltisham,),. so if you feel like flying some·where different we would be very glad to seeyou.R.R.H.HEREFORD (Sbobdon)We have a fine cro,p of Bronze Cs and SilverI'egs with a completed Silver C by JohnFrance. Liz L10yd convel1.ed to lhe syndicateK-6cR.There have been some exceptional waveflights. On April 12 Roger Harrow and PhilipKing (Mini Nimbi 849 and 530) found wave to1:2 OOOft and visited the Black Mountains,Brecon and Pontypool. Charles Boucher took530 to 14 OOOft on April 19 after a launchlessday of howling northerly crosswinds. OnApril 20 Anthony Maitland (530) and MikeCostin (Nimbus 2) found wave to around15 OOOft. Mike visited Aberystwyt,h andIlanded on his way back to HB while Anthonydid a 250km triangle.On May 20 Philip King (530) climbed to22 ooon.. The next day Anthony Maitlandclimbed 5,30 10 17500ft and was joined byDon Towson, Reg Mayo and OliveI' Cowley.Reg completed his Gold C with Gold heightand gained a Diamond.May 17 saw Anthony Maitland (530) andRoger Harlow (849) taking the Mini Nimbiround a 306km 'triangle north of Whitchurchand west of L1andovery, a remarkable routeoVer exciting roug;h country. This wasAnthony's 26tb flight of more than 300kmcompleted in 3hrs 33min. but a first for Rogerin a lime of 5hrs 4Q mi'n, giving him his secondUK Diamond in three months..The Lakes GC came for ten days in lateMay and although not special weather PeterRenshaw clocked up nearly 30hrs. Liz andAdrian L10yd organised a beer and skittlesparty for their last. evening.On June J Philip King returned from theIBM Competition in Holland with the MiniNimbus and Denis J'ohnston (crew), havinghad a fine time and placed second. Philipgulped down a cheese roll and then shot rounda 250km triangle.R.P.KENT (ChaIlock)Mike Kemp and Tony Moulang bave alreadyachieved 300kms fOund the Whlulesey milkrun with good attempts by Terry Bramfill andTim Gardiner. Mike Kemp also won IheLeague One division of our task week, jus!bealing his co-organiser, John H'oye, intosecond ,place; John variously flying a PIK208, K-13. and T-21. League Two honourswenl to Dennis Wrighl, our new professionali'nstructor, who recently completed his SilverC and gained his full rating. The "learn" prizewent to the PIK 208 (988) flown by JohnHoye and Mike Kemp.Ooug Berry achieved his duration on ascratchy day closely followed by Silverheight, Tony Goodman and Martin Coopercompleted Silver Cs with height gains andthere was also 11 Silver height for CarolineBunyan. Finally there was a rare Silver distanCe(including height) for Chris Ireland(Swallow).D.H.LASHAM GLIDING SOCIETYOLashanlAlrftekl)By the time you read this our new SuperPalke should be in service, wh_ich will pleaseour pupils needing navigation, field selectionand fieldllanding instruction. Our K-l3s continueto give good service and we are planningto add a Janus to the fleet for advance training.Our advanced courses run by KenStewart are a greal success, with a number offirst cross-countries and Silver legs completed.We seem to have fewer beginners this year,which means that those we do have, are gettingtrained more quickly.W.J.D.WNDON (Dunslable)Apologies are due to Louise Coates for lendingher a faulty barograph for her Silver height195

attempt; bUI after a\ll it does seem to be theseason for this sort of thing as AndrewHumphries's distance claim was thwartedfor a similar reason. ,We have been more successful in theInter-Club League, hQwever, with cur onepoint lead at Husbands Boswor'th being consolidatedby wins in aU three Classes atSaItby.Back at Dunstable we have a brand newSuper Cub, making three of the type in all.This was available in time to assist in launclilingthe very large number ofrather small gliderspresent for the I~M Nationals. Our newfacilities ie lhe lug hangar (or brietings and the.!i-star catering contributed significantl'y inmaking a more civilised competition.F.K.MARCHINGTON (Marchlngton)The club has now been informed by theMinislJ"y of Defence tlilat our site will beauctioned this autumn so we are busy raisingthe cash necessary for its acquisition whichwill enable us to develop and expand. Advicefrom anybody .experienced in raising largesums would be most welcome.Meanwhile, work cont,inues ,on the stripand we now have over IOOOm of rollway runningapproximately east-west. By the timethis is published, lhe winch should be operatingand the grass well established on the strip.There was a good tum ()ut for the AGMand tlile CH, Ray Steward, was electedChairman with Neil Morgan as Secretary andMalcolm Johnstone as Treasurer.A new syndicate has formed with a verysmart Eagle, which proved to be mo Iilroblemfor our Auster, and they are having a greatdeal of fun w;ith this machine.S.D.B,MIDLAND (Long Mynd)April 19 was .a day to remember. Soon anerbreakfast" the first K-IJ 10 be .launChed wasnoticed at about 10 OOOft and climbing rapidlyin clear air_ The ensuing rush to launch :intothis wave, Which remained unmarked by anylenticulars throughQul the day, brought usnine claimed Gold C heights, plus gQOdclimbs by two-seater and other pilots.Charles WingtielG achieved DiamQnd heightand undoubtedly there woul'd have beell morehad other aircraft been prepared with oxygen.The wave was easily contacted throughoutthe morning (rom the winch, bu t. became moreelusive during the afternoon. Chris Alldisthus deserved spedal mention. Havingrapidly climbed above Gold height liIe landedto let his partner do likewise, onlry to find hisbarograph bad failed. His second climb tookmQst oft,he afternoon and no small measure ofadrenalin to achieve.A party of eight German pilots (rom Weselflew over ill two light aircraft and ~ MotorFalke w'ith a view to forming a lwin,ningarrangement between us and their glidingclllb. They enjoyed good soaring and weremosl entertairuxl, by theirinlJ"oduction 10aerobatics and cloud flying, which is normallyprohibited to them. Now there are plans for areturn visit nexl year, possibly combining itwith a visit 10 Paderborn.A group with six aircraft has just returned196frQm the Cambridge University GC's taskweek at Duxford - not too triumphant buthaving greatly enjoyed our flying. Our thanksto the-club for their welcome.Malcolm Lewis, Tony Jones, Geoff Rowsonand J. Baker have recently soloed andDave Baily, Nick Tyler and "Mac" MacArthurhave completed ,their Silver Cs.Finally, our congratulations .to ex Myndmember David Benton on his record ascent.J.S.NORFOLK (Tlbenbam)Our ex-GPO workshop j,s now installed atTibenham, thanks largely to the enterpriseand leadership of Roo Brown and Mike Bean.We are now looking for tools to equip it.Easter produced some fine soaring forthose who visited PQrtmoak with GoM' heightfor some, but most of us stayed in Norfolkand had the satisfactionr of taking part inanother successfull open day at RobinCombe's fish farm.Our CFI, Roy Wcodhouse, held anextremely useful seminar on field landings,followed a few weeks later by a stimulatinglecture on cross-country !lying by our Pre'sii1ent,Alfie Warminger. So inspiring was thisthat within a week or two Pele Walsh (Mosquito)did a 300km goal flight to Yeovilton,and Karl Heimrich finished his Silver C bygoing to Duxford, intentionally taking overfive hours.The May task week s'tarted anticyclonicand non-soarable, but some useful non-flyingjobs were done, Leon Early taking a sickCondor engine some hundred miles to berepaired, and Arian Currell among othersdoing some clubhouse painting. The weatherimproved later in the week and some of thebest flights were by John Ayers (Astir) whogot away from 900ft to do a 240km and byCharles Owles (Dart 17) who tlew 280km.Ron Brown and Kenny Goodrun l1ewSilver distance to DlIxford, with a height gainfor Ron (Vega) and a duration for Kenny(K-18) atlhe same time.M.L.NORTHUMBRIA (Currock HIlI)The weather has been Quite good recentlywith Quite. strong lhermals, althQugh c1oudbasehas been too low to make t.hebesl use of.them. There have been four expeditions toPortmoak this year, and apart from the firstone the flying has been p

A major event is the official opeAing ef thenew c1ubhol!lse on June 28, by the Rt HonGeoffrey R,jppon QC MP who was so helpfulduring our airspace pr~blems with New

SOUTHDOWN (Storrlnglon)ft was an e~cellent start 10 the soaring seasonwith marvelfous weather, particularly during.early May. Dave Connaway achievedDiamond height at Portmoak on April 4.Then on May 19 during our task week three,rushed around a 300km triangle, giving a GoldC complete and Diamond ,to les Merritt. Onthe same day Brian Ba'teson and Steve Turnertook the 1'-13 on a 202km task, a new clubtwo-seater- achievement', but with 8kt thermarsand 7500f1 c10udbase it was a day 10 beremembered. The task week was quite successfulwith\as'ks completed on five days.Our Silver C completions this year have setan all time record with ten qualIfying over afive-week period.Our "new" K-7 is we.JIliked and generallypreferred to our previous one. Prepar;ltionsare now well in hand for our 50th anniversarydinner at the end of Jlune.We have .two new fun Cat instructors withLes Merr.itt and Jim Tl!lcker (11) passing theirexaminations. We also have a new CFI inKeith (The Teeth) Mitchell and a new deputyin "Tiny" Don hving, both of whom areenthusiastically adding their considerableexperience and weight to these challengingpositions.B.A.B.SOUTH WALES (Usk)After a rather wet and muddy slart we havehad abundant W;lve, ridge and thermall conditionsresulting ,in a crop of Bronze Cs - GlynFord, John Millard, Steve Reed and GrahamBaily. Steve and Graham ;ll'so achieved theirfive hours. Silver distances went to MarkHowell, Keith Beggin, Gerald Waldock. andLyn Even'itt and Silver height to Mark.Graham, Gerald and! Uz .Duffin. Strongwaves boosted John Sorrell and lan Edwardsto Gold 'height. Well done everybody.The latest member 'to the club fleet. a K-8,is proving very popular and has been used formany Bronze and Silver badges. We also havean A40 retrieve car supplied by Lyn Everrilt.We were pleased to welcome members ofthe British l'eamsQuad on May Ul for CompetitionKitty and even more pleased whenIvor Shattock won the weekend. During thebarbecue arranged for Kilty, Norman Evanswas rewa.rded for aliI his many years' serviceto the club, including his time as Chairman.Lectur.e/natter nights during the winterwere well attended and our th.anks to thosewho woriked to make them a suCCess. Eveningflying is now underway as a replacement.Hopefully we will soon be on mains water.P.A.C.STAFFORDSHIRE (Morridge)We started flying passengers mid-week duringMay. This helps junior instructors to gainexperience, gives us good publicity and PR,attracts new members, increases utilisation ofclub equipment and raises additional moneyfor club improvements.On Whit Monday, Peter Joul'es convertedto the K-8. Our club course week which followedWhit was a great success. The 20members who attended flew a total of 30h.rsduring 158 nights and raised £275 in flyingfees. Perfect unstable north-we,;terly windsprevailed and Keith Ward and David Thorpemanaged Bronze C legs, Joe Sharples andJohn Davies went solo and Philip Barnshawwent cross-country to Ashbourne ..We are laking part in the StaffordshireMoorlands District Council Sports Weekfrom June 8-15. Council members will be visitingthe site, we wioll alTange air experienceflights and will provide a ,display for a stand attheir exhibition.In line with a number of other clubs, we willbe running a dawn to dusk flying weekend onJune 21-22 with a barbeque on the Saturdayevening.P.F.SURREY & RANTS (Lasbam AIrf'Jeld)The good start to the season has crumbled abit with Ilots of blue sky or 8/8 strato-cumulusspoiling soaring prospects much of the time.CONVERT TO POWERTHREE COUNTIESAERO CLUB LIMITEDBlackbushe Airport lCamberleyI Surrey(ON A30 TRUNK ROAD45 MINS. FROM LONDON)Special Courslls for Glider Pilots to obtainPrivato Pilal's ~icen~eSilver C Conversion CoursesNormal Courses for Private Pilot's LicenceNight Flying - Instrument F!ying - R/T -AerobaticsFlying Instructor Course.CA.A. Approved Courses 35 'hoursLicensed Bar, Dine.. Club Credit Cords acceptedBarclaycards and Acce.. acceptedeft Laurie AdlingtOfl YATELEY 8737~7(ManagementI872152 (Operations)How,ever Qne or two days have producedexcellent results, notably May 9. Four clubgliders gave their pilots 300km goals toDevizes .and Northampton. Andy Oineverand Lionel SQle in /l.sfirs, John Davies (Mos­,quito) and John Bell (Kestrel) made May 9themost cross-country Diamond grabbing that'sever been done in our club gliders in One day.Ken Stewart •. deputy Cft. compleled his300km and Julian West his 508km distance,the firsl 500km badge flight Ihis year. AlanPurnell of course did a 600km triangle to Uskand Lincoln as he did on April 21 to lbeyondDoncaster! Roy Pentecost turned '\}ack onthat April day just short of 500km.May 19 was also excelleni with cumulusbase to 8000ft in places bUI an approachingfront resulted in some very long retrieves,George Metcalfe nearly making it back roundingSherborne and Shrewsbury. April 19brought wave to Lasham with 12 OOOft ilvailablewith patience, easHy contacted fromthermals all Over the local cross-country area,The advanced courses have pr

Skylark 4 have joined !he 1(-8 but the Skylarkneeds a new trailer before it can fulfil itsproper cross-country role.Local real ale bas r~placed the fizz servedin the c1ubhQuse .andin' addition Angie Higgsand the girls now pro.vi;de food mostweekends.John Chapman has gone solo and BobLocke completed his Bronze C. We have apassenger flying weekend on June 21-22, atask week starting June 28 and a CompetitionKitty weekend on July 19-21, with the annua'lbarbecue arranged for July 19.J.M.B.ULSTER (BeUarena)The start ofthis,ouF 50th an.tiversary season,was considerably delayed by a lengthy refurbishingof our tug. The only club member ableto raise a smile durinll the 'Iong grounding,when we missed some delightful springweather, was our Chairman, G.ordon Mackie,who was able to flout his independence ofsuch things as tugs with his new PIK-20E,which logged our first flying of the year.Despite his self-launching abilities, however,Gordon wheeled on to the site in May atwin-drum he has generously built to give us auseful stand-by for fresh westerly, ridge wind,days.Other pilots kept their hands in by flyingwith the Dublin Club or on abortive waveforays ,to Aboyne, where Bob Rodwell flewthe Deeside Club's K-6E for a Grampian TVprogramme to 'be networked nationwide inJuly. Later, Alan Sands took the PIK-20oDiamond hunting in Germany.Both SHK syndicates have moved up market,the McKelvie/Wallace/Weston triobeginning the season with very intensive useof their new Yugoslav-built 00-100 Elan,which Laurence McKelvie took to more thanII OOOft on its first flight from our site; whileMessrs Craig, Farrell and Snow towed homefrom Schleicher a new ASW-20. As I wrhe,.tw@ members are aoout to depart for Bavariato bring back yet another K-6cR.Almost unbelievably, we stil'l have notsolted out the problems with Building Control(lie) which have so far prevented us makingany move 'towards ,erecting the hangar forwhich we obtained planning permission inFebruary 1979, If the entire nation sufferedthe kind of bureaucracy we have encountered,we'd all still be living in caves·.R.R.R.VINTAGE NEWSThe Vintage Glider Club held its annual dinneron May 25 at Lewes when cups wereawarded to Ken Fripp for his restoration of aHutter H IiA and to Derek Godfrey foralmost completing a 300km triangle ,in his 1943Weihe. He managed 274km.This season good flights have been made by16 year-old Andrew Humphreys (GrunauBaby) and OeolT Moore. (Mu 13D-3) forSilver distance. Geoff has now completed hisSilver C on vintage gliders and Andrew aimsto do the same in the Grunau,There are 60 entries for the Eighth InternationalVintage Rally at Sulton Bank from July26-Augusl 3, but because of limiled facilitiesAugust/September 1980and airspace over the site, the entry has to be~estricted to 50.An informat vintage meeting is being held atlasham during the week before the rally forforeign members wishing 10 spend two weeksin England and for those w;ho couldn't beaccepled for the hltemational Rally. Thecrganiser is Colin Street of" Badger Lodge".,Redlands Lane, EwshOtl, Famham, SurreyGUIO SAS.c.w.WELLAND SOARING GROUP (Care~y)We had an early and enthusiastic Start to theseason and have several new members. DaveGiltens and Ray Hal() gained their Bronze Csand Ernie Clayton successfully completed theinstructors' courSe at Husbands Bosworth inJune.Our yateful thanks to Horace Bryanl forhis years as Group Treasurer. His jOb hasbeen taken by Phil West.R.J.H.WOLDS (Pockllngton)The club expedition to Portmoak in April wasa great success with five Diamond and sixGold height claims and several Silver andBronze legs. Chr,is Reeves and Brian McFaddencompleted their Silver Cs. We now hopeto have an e",pedition to a wave sire eachyear.Our first task week was held recently andwon by lEddie Room and John Durman in theCobra. A bailIe between Bob fox and BillYoung and crews in the two K-7s ended withonly 9km between them, all good practi.ce forBill who will be taking a K-7 to CompetitionEnterprise again this year.The Northern League weekend at Pock·lington was a disappointment weatherwiseand we hope Competition Kitty has betterluck.The e.vening vis,its are again going well, andwith another task week in July and severalPocklington gliders entering the Northern andEastern Regionals it looks like being a busysummer.H.N.WYCOMBE AIR PARK (Booker)Although not quite up to 1976 standard, thisyear continues apace here with achievementslike Dave Watt's Diploma distance and~PIGGOTT,------ --SUPPLIERS TO THEAIRCRAFT INDUSTRYWlndcones - manufactured In Min. ofDelence Hypolon. also nylon andCombnc.All Noloonol & AdvertISing Flogs andBannel'is.Canvas covers for 011 reqUIrementsDrogues mode from easy to cleanPVC NylonPIGGon BROTHERS & CO liMITEDSlonford RIvers. Ongor, Essex (MS 9P~Te/ 0271 363282Booksr 0" a good day -Photo: Ed White.not a glldsr I" sight!300km record claim and the lead Chris Rollingshas on the trail to the Arctic Lite 300km cashprize. On the other 'hand, our PI K 20 has beenwritten-off in a landing accident; we are hopingto replace. il with an ASW·20 but thalwon't put the accident record straight.All the tug pilots have been getting c·heckedout in the loaned Wilga; this aircran reallyincreases the launch rate which is especiallyhelpful on the evening courses when we havealready had many first solos. and a few BronzeCs. Our K-21 is proving very pop\.llar, bothfor basic training and cross-country work.The Thames Valley Club. which looks afterthe non-British Airways people, has recentlybecome a registered comp\lny.E.W.SERVICENEWSANGLIA (RAF Wattlsham)After a disastrous start to 'the season with amid air collision between the T-21 and :K-8which caused only minor damage and nocasualties, things have now started to pick upwith a completed Silver C by "Piggy" Hammondand 500kms by Jack "Elmer" Webband "Mouse" Ackroyd. "Mouse" unfortunatel.)'missed his claim !by the 1% rule.Our fleet has been increased by the arrivalofa K-4 and "Mouse's" Torva Sprite. Hopefullyour Blanik will be here very soon.We welcome our new Chairman, MikeParkin, who takes over from Dic-k Morris. Asa farewell gesture we decorated the bar andheld a party, but as we forgot to tell Dick hewas the only one who didn't come.S.P.BANNERDOWN (RAFGSA)Con.gratulations to all Bannerdown memberson -their performances in the Inter-ServiceRegionals but especially to Tony Clarke, ourCH, on coming second in the StandardClass.Bronze legs have recently been comp'letedby Keith Woodcock, Andy Stenton, DerekFinley, Sue Williams and WiIlie Mclvor. PaulBreslin and Mel Dawson have their A certificates.Welcome to Mick Topham who has joinedus recently while on a course nearby. By thetime this ,is in print our new bus winch will beoperating, giving us even better launches., E.A.C.H.199

BICESTER (RAFGSA)Early May saw a strpng Bicester 'contingent atthe lnlter-Service Rellt/onal's. The 14 aircraftwith 15 pilots flew a total of over 12000kmduring the competition and achieved sQmegood results. Ken Hartley led the Open Classfor some days and finally finished a very closesecond; Pam Newall won a day in the Standa,rdand finished 4th followed by DaveCi\unt, 5th; Dino Dean and Paul Bolton came2nd and 3rdi ,in the Sports and Mick Alexander4th in the Club.Luey Caunt, who went solo on her 16th birthday.The good conditions have encouragedmany others to do some cross-country flyingand Mike Osborne completed a 307kmDiamond goal flighl. Members and visilorshave ·collecti¥ely claimed seven durations,three Silver heights and three Silver distances.Congratulations to Mick Alford, JohnEdwards and Angie Wat,t who completedtheir Silver Cs and to Derek Durling forheight and dural/on. We also haye severalnew solo pilots ,including Lucy Caunt whojoined the select band of those flying solo on a16th birthday and rapidly converted to IheK-8. Perhaps it willl 1'101 be too many yearsbefore she has designs on father's Kestrel,one of two new syndiCate aircraft arriving duringMay. The other is a DG-IOO,replacing theOly 419.J.W.CRANWELL (RAFGSA)Congratulations to Chris Tef"f"Y who won theClub Class in Ihe Inter-Service Regionals.Chris wasn't allowed to enter 'Iast year as hehad too little ·experience!Our Chairman, GrpCapt Whillingham, hasgone solo and progressed to the K-8, as wellas Angie Tapson, oln CFI's wife. We haveachieved a crop of Bronze Cs and Silver legs,many ;in gliders from our vinlage fleet towhich has been added a syndicate Eagle.When our CFI ,took over he set an annualtarget of 5000'launcbes and 2500km. Thesetargets have already been achieved. Our newtllg has completed 60hrs towing and is a grealtasset, Ken Dodd, John Harrison and DaveAlmey are back with instructor .-atings andDave is now a senior inspec!tor.. His accurateand professional workmanship is muchappreciated. Three new assistant Cals havejoined us and we have helped out IheRAFGSA by exporting Ihree of our full Cats,-200Mike Throssel, Martin Durham and PaulSteinal.The Gull IV is flying ;Igain after beingrecovered and repainted and to the horror ofthis syndicate member has sprouted a pinknose!GAB.EAST MIDLAND (RAF Wittering)The comings and goings of club membershave been too numerous to mention individually,but the vagaries of Service I,ife do meanthat we have a constanl crop of pupils.Among the recenl achievements are firstsolos for Bob O'Hara IInd Lyn Pi\rker, aBronze C for Paul McLean and durationflights for John Normall and 'Sreve Carter tocomplete their Silver Cs. Congratulationsalso to Steve and Mick Topham on successfullycompleting an instructors' course.Club members have also been introduced,or in some cases re-intmduced, to the joys offiying a K-4, as it is temporarily our onlytwo-seater. We lost the SF-26 at Easter as itwas re-allocated to Preseli GC. Our bestwis'hes go with it.J.M.G.FENLAND (RAF Maf"ham)The bus chassis conversion to a wind. isprogressing lInder Ihe control of Brian Mack,who has also found time to modify another ofthe tractors.Neil McCarry, Dave Smith, Andy Hill andOeoff Short have gone solo, and there hasbeen a crop of Bronze and Silver legs. TonyPovey and K,en Reeves have completed theirSUver'Cs. In the Inter-Service Regionals, SluLawrence came third in the Club Class andBen Benoist won the Standard Oass in theTwin Astir.Instructors continue to be posted. Latest togo is Phil Morgan andl we also say goodbye toChris Jacobs.M,J.M.FOUR COUNTIES (RAF Syerston)Congratulations to Trev Gorely for winningthe Inter-Services Regionals' Sport Class an-dto John Taylor, Oick'ie Feakes, Roger Clemo,John MaliTioll and Ginge Pearon on beinghighly placed.A good wave day produced a site record of14 400ft by Chey Chin and gave Ben Denistonhis Gold C with a Gold height. Notablecross-countries include a 300km for HamishBrown. a 270km for Chey Chin and a 280kmfor Tim . Bralesford..The Whit soaring week was a disaster, thebright spot being Harry Orme's TandemFalke, which members made full: use of, and aSport Vega which members flew and enjoyed.Hopefully we will have beller weat,her for ourAugust lask week.New aircraft on site are an ASW-20,ASW-19, K-6E and Nimbus 2. Finally we sayhello to our flew Chairman and full Cat, JohnDelafield.G.P.S.FULMAR (RAF Kinloss)We welcome "Griff" Griffiths from Anglia,Chds Jacobs from Fenland and Oscar Constableback after a tour in Germany.The sea breeze has been kind 'to us, allowingmore soaring than normal for ,late spring.We congratulate Pete Stralton, Mark Bonth.con and AI Thomson on completing Silver Csby flying their distances, the laller two fromBicester.Congratulations also to Ron Jackson forcoming second in the Club Class al theInler-Service Regionals, Dave Stewart for hisfirst Bronze leg and lan Cllmpbell and CarlSurgey for going solo.It is with regret that we announce thedeparture of Pip Barley for Binbrook. Wethank him for the work he has done over thepast few years, including his clubhouse entertainment.C.J.KESTREL (RAF Odiham)The fine spring weather has seell an increasein our flying achievements and ,pur ab-iniiiomembership'. Solo standard has been reachedby Pete Stone, "Slim" Whiteman, Wen.dyShortly and lan Booth; New Bronze C pilotsare Ray Farrell, Tf"evor Stacey, 'DerekAnderson, Terry Egglington and Dave East.Mike St Jean has started on the Silver trnil,whilst Warwick Creighton, Nigel Ridd andDave Lancast,er have completed theirs. FirstGold of the season ,goes to Andy Gineverwho completed a 300km triangle.Unfortunalel,y we have 'Iost four of our"older" members, all instructors, Paul Mulhernis posted 10 Conin~sby, Mike Pobjoy alittle furlher afield to Australia, having joinedthe Australian Army, Don Carey has "turnedprofessional" and moved to Bickmarsh whilstPete Andrews is posted to Aberdeen, sansGrunau.P.W.A.PORTSMOUTH NAVAL (Lee-on·Soh::ot)The Easter course task week proved to be aresounding success with mosl of Iheab-inilio,pilots going solo and the mOre advanced gainingBronze and Silver legs. The task pilotsclocked up an impressive number of crosscountrykilometres and successful field landings.Our thanks to the generous help givenby club members. It was rounded off with avery well attended social evening.Our new tug is proving. its worth and withthe Astir is justifying our investment in newSAILPLANE & GLiDING

equipment. W()rll on the Astir trailer is progressingwell.There have been a few more CQR1mil!eechanges with Mike ,Draper replacing Johnlimb as Treasurer and Pete Sharp relievingSimon Owens as Secretary. "Nobby" C1arkehas also kft the Comminee. Our thanks toJohn, Simon and "Nobby" for all theirefforts.There have been many achievements sinceEaster and our congratulations to .those whohave gone sol'o, flown cross-country andgained Bronze and Silver legs.Finally on a Ihumorous note, an eillcitedpassenger on a local' train reported havingseell a dead pilot lying beside his crashed aircraftnear the railway track. 00 ,investigationit turned out to be Col,in Bames enjoying thesunshine whilst waiting for a retrieve.H.C.PRESELI {RAF Brawdy)Our fleel has now grown to a K-4, K-7, SF-2&and an l Spatz. The gliding conditions alsoimproved and a number of nota@le flightswere made. Tlilese included a 50kll1 plus viaMilford Haven and St Davids by deputy CFI,"P0I1y" Parrott, in the L 5palz, several flyingvisits to the West Wales GC by CFI, GrantGuest, and Steve Burnelll in the SF-26 and asile height record of 6000f1 by Granl.Pilot training has progressed well' with firstsolos by Ben Bennett and iPete Kearney whoalso gained Bronze I:egs later in the mont];}.Other Bronze legs were by Barry Hold,ing (2)and lew Tyler. For good measure the DCOps, Dennis Willison, also went solo mutteringsomething about f\ Lightning 00 Fridayand a K-4 on Sunday.J.K.S.TWO RIVERS (RAF laarbruch)Rob McCarthy. Paul Jackson, Tim Alien andChris lans'ley have gone solo, Colin Hale andPhil Shambrook have their Silver Cs, Andy.Powell has Silver heighl. Sarah Bailey andJayne Lee their Silver distance and VinceIf you',e an experienced glider pilot andyou',e look'ing for a good base to flyfrom on your holidays, Covent'y GlidingOlub is the place lot yoU'.Situated just outside Husbands Bosworth,it is within easy flying (each of manyother Clubs. Aero-tow launching ensuresthat any machine with reaSonable penetrationcan enjoy 'I'ong distance Or localsoaring in our almost ideal ~onditions.Club faci'lities include Licensed Bar,fi,stclass accommodation, easy access frommotorways and good company.We also ex tend an equally warm welcometo the not so experienced.For details ring:Ma'ket Harborough 8'80429 or 880521Or w,ite to: COVENTRY GLIDING CLUBHusbands Bosworth Airfield,Husbands Bosworth, Leics.Mallon completed a :300km for Gol\:l distanceand Diamond goaJl.We took part iA the ,RAFOSA expeditiol1lto Sistemn in March/Aprill Ilnd had someexhilarating flying. Trell BuckJey and PeteBums gained Silver &eight and duration onlfue Gache and Pete climbed to 14 300ft am~1for Gold height which was also gained hyMartin Everett.Prior 10 the B'FG Gliding Comps atDetmold, Mike lee and Vince Mallon had!'IsefiJ I experience at Asperden Ily,ing in lheirComps. AI Ihe Detmold Comps, TRGC ledthe way yet again with Bryan Harvey narrowlybealing Mick Lee in the Open Classand Jerry Neild winning. the Club Class, plus't!:le aWaJ'd for the best RAFG pilol.Finally, a sad farewell to leigh and MarilynHood and we wish 'them all the best in theU K. We owe a lot to Leigh for his patientcoaching.J.R.N.WREKIN {RAF CosfardlOur thanks to our retiring CFI, DaVe.coltle,for all his hard work and guidance over theyears. We welcome Shag Haggar as our newboss. Mick Davis received the ADC's commendationfor land'ing our Astir in one piecewhen the ailerons jammed in Iflight, thusenabling us 10 determine Ihe cause.Sic Smith has completed his Bronze andLes Cadogan and Rhod Evans their Silver Cs.Dave Wakefield was the second solo pilot of,the year and AI Stacey made a dramatic con­-version to our Astir. We are looking forwardto our l(lOges! day on June 21 (and the parTyafterwards) and hope 10 crack 200 launches.We were deeply shocked to hear of thedeaths of Gina Nowland and Colin Moore.Our condolences go to their families.J.L.R.WYVERN {RAF (Ipavon)The perseverance of our winler gliding membershas paid off. Our congratulations go toSue Hawkins and Steve Best on going so'lo;Steve almost gained his firsl Bronze leg on hi,ssecond solo flight. Steve Moss (our &chIZOphrenichang glider freak) has achieved his firsthalf hour while Angie Pears has gained oolh.Adrian MatYear, Colin Arch and John Hawkinsgained ,their Bronze Cs, the lalter twomoving on quickl,y to gain Silver Cs. AdrianBarry Perks and Ray Hornbuckle ha,ve allflown 50km, with Phi] Wood gelling Silvel:height.Our membershi,p standS at about 110 with arecent influx of very wel.come ab-initio pilots.We now have a retrieve wagoll and a doubledeckerlimousine for our airfield control,mobile lecture/briefing room, restaurant andrest room. Thanks to Colin Arch the bus hasits own internal LAWN-launch Audio WarningNoise. A further retrieve wagon is on itsway!The moSI obvious effecls of the AGM in.early February are the slight increase inlallnch fees to .sOp, the appearance of myriadmulti-eoloured charts from our new Secretary.Sue Hawkins, and a face lift for the clubhousethankSo to Merve and Pat, Pete andHe'lga Cook and ,our new entertainmentsmember Arthur 'Pears.Goon of the mon,th award had a few candidates;Ray Hornbuckle for his Netheravonlanding. John Hawkins for his 15miB duriltionflight to H'ui,sh or e\len Brian Hernstock 10rhis cmchel work with the cables during aretrieve. The winner was Colin Hornbucklewho landed afler 4hrcs 50min on his durationbelieving he had flown an extra hour.After sill months on the ground under theever watchful eye (If Gerry Sturgess·, our aircraflmember, our second K-13 (472) hasreturned in' prist'inecondition. In even moresparkling condition is Gerry and Ken Mack­I'ey's rebuilt K-6E (one from two).J.H,MITY LINKSThe new stainless weak link as describedin the AprH/May issue. Complete with threebuffer diSCS and TWO pairs 01 staples(please state whether 900 or 1100lb'equired).1 to 9,10 to 3536up£6.36 eact! pll,lS VAT£5.72 eacfl plus VAT'£4.77 each plus VATCarriage paid UKJohn Astleyand Sons LldGos1ord Street, COyltntlY CV1 5DJ0203-20771The new Airtou r hard coverGI,ider Pilot's Logbook isnow available at £3.74includi,ng VAT, by personalvisit or mail order,Also we have a full rangeof glider and power pilot'saccessories.AIRTOURINTERNATIONALELSTREE AERODROMEELSTREE, HEElTFORDSHIRETelephone: 01 953 4870Please send all cQntrlbutlons to 281 QueenEdlth's Way, Cambridge CB1 4NHIAugust/September 1980 201

GLIDERS THAT GO "CLONK" IN FLIGHTDear Editor,At the last BOA Technical Committeesome concern was expressed that severalpersons appear to have abandoned other·wise airworthy gliders, the most recentone, with fatal consequences! Whereas wecannot hope to understand all the factorsthat may have initiated these decisions, itmay be worth mentioning that disturbingintluences may be generated by:a. Involuntary undercarriage lowering.b. "Buzz" from flaps and lIying controlcomponents.c. Severe vibration from speed-brakecaps, which may be amplified likemachine-gun tire if part of a metal airframe.d. "Cronks". creaks and groans tramthe natural responses ot the various componentsof the airtrame in relationship toone another.None of these "distractions" necessarilyrender the glider untenable and, therefore,should be assessed in non-airworthinessterms before leaping overboa-rd! To avoidany possibility at in.itiatlng classic controlor structural: flutter of catastrophic capabil­'ty, only aeronautically Illiterate fools willexceed the type certificated I-imitations.R. B. STRATTON, BGA Chief TechnicalOfficer.IS FLYING WORTHWHILE?Dear Editor,Although I was in agreement with BobRodwell's expression of concern over thelailure of (HJality asSurance procedures atSlingsby's sub-contractors, I feel that hehas asked the wrong question. (See the lastiss1,Je, "Those Vega Wings", p96.) Since Ican purchase a car, motorcycle, boat, cav­Ing ladder and climbing rope without legalcertification of their suitability, why mustan aircraft be treated differently? Perhapsit is not aircrafl, but that human activity called"flying" that attr~cts such unique legislation,since we are all well aware thatthese restrictions extend to aviation fueland airspace but not to other luels orspaces.The q1,Jestions we need to ask, therelore,are "Why does flying need special regulations?"and "Is .jt worthwhile?"II the answers to these questions j1,Jstilyspecial procedures Isn't it likely hat similart(eatment would be appropriate to the202other prod1,Jcts that I have mentione

Another vital check is for obstructions onthe approach or in the 'ield. 'In this respect.power lines can be the macab~e joker in thepack. They may be difficult to see throughsunglasses if the light is :poor so it's "sunglassesoff" for me prior to I'anding 'QuI.Where sloping fields are concerned, thegradients of interest to .airline. pl'lots arehardly relevant to the glide approachbrigade but appreciable dowoslopes areassuredly to be avoided like the plague.With a gentle upslope, perhaps the mainthing to remember is the need for a littleextra speed on the approach -carefullymonitored, of course· .- because 0,' thegreater angular round-out required.Whatever happened to sideslipping?Perhaps the pot-pitot has something to dowith its near demise. The apparent reductionin airspeed as the slip develops isclearly very worrying to some, particularlyi' they've recently absorbed the essential:modern doctrine of, speed,-control. 111 consequence,the art of maintaining a conlrol'­led sideslip may never be learned and an,exceedingly useful approach control aidremains unacquired. Even a I,ittle"sidewaysflying", with trivial bank, marked,lyincreases the sink rate 0' a slippery glider.Perhaps a training ,technique can bedeveloped to increase competence andconfidence in ,this il1valuable manoeuvre.DAVID EVANS, Cambridge.John Wllllam:lon replies: David Evans isquite right in that wind strength and .di,rectionwillmodify the eflective s'ize snd shapeof aprospective field and are dominant factorsin making a choice. The article referredto was nol intended 10 be a full anddefinitive guide to field landiRgs. lit wasmore a catalogue of ermrs made lasl yearand, interestingly, a wrong assessment ofwind did not con,tribute. I: particularly likethe point he makes about sunglasses andheartily endorse it.SPORT VEGA PERFORMANCEDear Editor,I am interested to see that the designersof the~port Vega confidently estimate thebest glide as over 38:1 (see SaG, June,pI12). Schleicher claim 38.5:1 for theASW·19 and 36:1 for the fixed wheelASW-19 Club, so Slingsby's have obvjouslymade a breakthrough. Could Roger Bulltell us what it is?I hear that a comparisoR was made froma high tow between the Sport Vega and anAstir Jeans, and that they were closely similar.Was there something wrong with theVega that day?The Sport Vega is clearly a very niceglider. entirely suitable for the job it is soldto do; we have 'one on order al lasham forSurrey & Hants. I am prepared to believe35:1-BILL DEAN, Mldhurst. Sussex.Roger BUll, .Sales Manager, Aircraft Division,of SlIrigsby Engineering Ltd, replies:The breakthrough seems to me to lie notonly in the design of the Sport Vega, butAugust/September 1980also in simple arithmetic. Tile figuresquoted in Bill Dean's letter show a differencebetween retractable and fixed gearversions of the ASW-19 01 21/2 glide anglepoints. Similarly the Sport Vega is a fixedgear version of the Vega - (,the presenceor absence of flaps is immaterial to thisdiSClJssion since best glide angle isachie.ved at or near neutral flap setting),Since the Vega has, a best glide ang'le 01 41(at the Sport Vega'S wing 1'0ad illg), a similardeduction of 21/2 glide angle pGints for afixed wheel gives a glide angle 0138:5. Ihasten to add that the above is not the waywe calcul'ated the performallce in the firstplace. I suppose. however, it is really nogood trying to ar·gue these matters logically,since it is quite obvious that the realfault Bill finds. with toe Sport Vega is thatthe native tongue of its manufacturers isEnglish and not German!BRAKES AND HOOKSDear Editor,Readers of Derek Pig gatt's article abOutthe Sport Vega and who have not yetexperienced the pl'easures of properlydesigned trailing edge brakes would bedeli,ghted by their combination of powerfulspeed limiting, smooth drag modulationwith exceptionally precise control 0' glidepath angle and speed. significant reductionIn roundout and touchdown speeds, and'completely safe operation near the ground.It is good to give credi,t where it is d,ue, andso I am sure Oerek wiU not mind my poi,ntingout that Spo.rt Vega is a long way frombeing the f,irst glider to have such brakesfree from rapid sink or stall out whenopened near the ground! in the nold oft ­as he has forgotten that he flew the firslglider to possess all these desirablecharacteristics ten years ago. This was theBG-l00 prototype, followed by the BG-135production version. Its designers still takepride in having been firsl to shOW how itshould be done.Derek .also :refers to the commonly heldbeliet that lack of a nose aerotow hook maygive, l..msatisfactory tOWing. During the tastwar, theoretical research into tow hooklocation for troop carrying gliders Showedthat the optimum place is below and a littleforward 01 the C of G. In other words, thehook location on Sport Vega ar,ld a greatmaf}y other gli.deirs is correct. A nose hookAMF ENTER,PRISES(ANGUS FLEMING).TOP QUALITY METAL GLIDER lRAILERS FORTHE DISCERNING OWNER - WEll KNOWNfOR TOWING STABILITYPOPULAR GLIDER FITTINGSAVAILABLE FROM STOCKJACKING BELLY TROLLEYFUSELAGE MOUNTED TAILPLANESOLAR. BATTERY CHARGER (Roof Panel)'WINGFIL' WATER BAlLAST PUMP (3 g.p.m.)VERY STABLE COLLAPSIBLE TRiPOD TRESTLEAND NOW OUR, LATEST OEVEWPMENTWATER BALLAST TROLLEY (10' your capacily)Very Lighlweig hI ( )BALLOON TYRES TOW BEHIND THE CARINBUILT PUMP STOW IN THE TRAilERintroduces an unstable yawing oscillationmode. though it is not very severe and isprobably losl within the general mayhem ofan aerotow launch. The only advantages of'a nose t:1ook are to help to keep the gliderstraight while on the ground and to reducethe rope snatch pitch up problem, andneither need be necessary on a modernsporting glider.JOHN GIBSON, Lytham SI. Annes, Lancs.COMPETITION AND FIELD LANDINGSDear Editor.The earliest gliding competitions wereheld wllen gliders were I,itlle better thanaerial toboggans, and pilots would competeto see who couldc'limb the highest,and who could stay airborne the longest Itwas not long before improved machinesrendered these two skills somewhat meanin,gless,and the competition pro9(essed todiscovering who could fl.y the furthest distancefrom the competiUon site. The techniquein this case was to climb in thermalswhilst drifting straight downwind as longas possible - and if the pilot was advenlurousand skilled, perhaps a course a f'ewdegrees either side of this could beachieved. T

ather than land in a field. This seems thesensible thing to do, but it is nol encouragedin competition flying.I1 is a common e¥-periencefor the GOmpetitionpilot to halle' 10 decide whether 10land at a nice little airstriplglidingi site afew hundred feel below, or to press on intothe unknown for a few more distancemarks. For a larmer lilling near a glidingclub, there is no excitement in hailing aglider I'and on his proper-ty, and even il nodamage has been done and he ,is kindlydisposed lowards the trespasser, you canbe sure that 'he would rather the landinghad been made elsewhere.For the pilot too, the novelty of landing infields wears olf very quickly.- For me, theyconsist roughly of 20% anxiety and 800/0boredom. The relief from anxiety 01 nothaving encountered some hidden hazard inthe st'range landing field changes rapidly toboredom - which lasts until the retrievecrew becomes Qverd'ue, when anxiety takesover again - this time about their safety.Today's gliding competitions consistmainly of races round prescribed courses,and iI the ,task has been reasonably tai'lored:to the weather, then those who don'! completethe COl,lrse collect very few marks.However, the "distanc .. concept in thescoring system obliges these non-finishersto stretch their glide an,gles and nerves toland in fields chosen hom altitudes as 'IQwas they dare. This, to my mind is rather likeentering brand new Rotls-Royces in aMotor Cross competition. -Why should t·his be necessary? Is glidingout to the v.ery last field some kind of test ofcourage to be rewarded? ,I don't think itshould be, but since our scoring s,ystemencourages this practice, theA it mu-st followthat we are enCOuraging increaseddanger to expel:lsive glide:rs, everyone'sinsurance premiums and our ,relations withthe farmers.In an attempt to steer us away tram t'hesedangerous and obsolete "d'istance"inducements, I would like to make someproposals, and perhaps get some reactionto them:Proposal 1. On a race day, every competitorwho flies beyoAd2X but fails tocomplete the course gels the same score.(Unde,' thjs r,u'ling, the ,inducement to finishthe course would still e'xist, but not tostretch his glide.)PrGposal 2. (If Proposal 1 is too sweep.­ing). Divide the COurse into sections, thedividi'ng lines between these sectionsbeing marked by approved sale landrngareas. For example, H there are lour .glid ing.clubs spaced roughly along the course,these would divide the total distance intofive sections, each section worth a proportionof the total distance mark. Landing atany of the clubs would cfedit the pilot withhavillglanded in the section beyond it.(This would mean that a pilot finding himselfcommilted to land, say, just beyondone of the afo'remenlioned cl.ubs can turnback and land there without losing distancemarks.)Proposal 3. A distance poillts bonus to begiven to pilots whe) land at designated safea,reas (or if preferred, a penalty inflicted onthose who don't). (This could be a rathercomplicated system if one wishes to takewind strength an9 glider performance ratinginto account, but a simple rule could besay, 15km bonus for Open Class, 13 for 15Metre and 10km bonus lor Standard Class.)Field landings will never be completelyeliminated, but a scoring system incorporatingone 01 tile above proposals couldreduce the number of them considerably.Let us bring ou, thinking in competitiongliding up to date with our equipment.MIKE FAIRMAN, We.lwyn Garden City,Herts.THOSE WERE THE DAYS'Dear Editor,Ron Riley was pampered! (see FebruaryIssue, p16). I don't th'ink ground slides hadbeen invented whell I started with theImperial College Club at Dunstable in 1'933because it was "stick in the middle" fromthe first launch. I was strapped onto ·thisbig. while bird (Dagling) and then with suddenbumping and a wild rushing followedIcarus 20ft up into the sky. What ecstasy! Ifrankly disbelieved bystanders who saidthat I' had been up all of 5 or 6ft.Perhaps because of the absence ofground slides, instructors were wont 10carry some bent nails in their pockets.T'hese were u~eful as weak links to connectto the top of the king·post t,he wires holdingup the wings. Inan impact landing thenails sheared and the wingtips fell onto theground. New nails were then inserted andwith an inspection and a good shake of thewings, lIying was resumed with minimaldelay!LAWRENCE ROBERTSON, Southampton.MORE ON GLIDING IN THE USADear Editor,Follo.wing on from Steve Bicknell's 'l'etterin the April issue, p9-7 about gliding inTexas, it was partly the success of his tripand partly frustration with British weather(two consecliJtive poor summers andmiserable winters) that made me go toFlorida for a fortnight last month. I went tothe Sebring Soaring Centre, run by DerekJohnson who used to be CFI of ThreeCounties Aero Club at Blackbushe and amemper at Lasham. 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Canvas covered Irailer (adeQu,ale but requiring some work)avail'able. Based Ringmer.Tel Nicholson Bexhill 215951 .(evenings)K,ESTREl19Full competition instrumentpanel. Aircraft and trailer havealways been kept under cover.£9500.Tel 0845 77711NIMBUS 2B. Late model. All mod con inc Bohli. radio.oxygen. chute, !)Bro. Cambridge Mk 11. Horizon. doubleballery set·up. Non spill Jelly type. Metallrailer new. 101'1­ing dolly. winglip dolly. water tanks. Ollers around£16800. E. J. Mason. 63 Victoria Rd Soulh. Soulhsea.Hants. Tel 0705 817t44 work. 0705 736018 evenings.OLYMPIA 28. Nice condition. good panel Includingaudio/vario. C of A 12 months. Aluminium covered trailerwith fillings. £2100. Dinninglon 3060 (SheHieldlIMMACULATE carbon Mini Nimbus ·C·. £12 990. hull only.Also available len items of GRP littings. Davis. Bath. Tel0225633459K-2B. Full instrumenls. trailer. £2000. K-6CR Full instru'men Is. closed trailer. £3600.K-6CR Full instruments.Irailer, £3300. Doppelraab Vintage (1954). £125. V. MallonPSA RAF Laarbruch BFPO 43.WYCOMBE Gliding School has for sale: Twin Aslir. withlull instruments. Metal trailer. C of A until October 1980.£10750 plus VA'. Tel High Wycombe 29263' or 442501.Got your JULY COpy of SOARING yet?why not? Our subscribers received theircopies by June 25th. Getyour copy promptlyand reliably - order or renew your SUb.with us. £16.00 for 12 issues (renewableany time of year).206Few signed copies of Reichmann's CrossCountry Soaring left £15.00 plus postage(U.K. £1.25: Europe £4.00: Other £5.00).Convention Proceedings of the 1980S.S.A. Convention £6.50 plus £1.00 p&p.FLOW TECHNOLOGY 2000 LTD,126 WELHAM ROAD, MAlTON.N. Yorks. Tel (0653) 2469PHOEBUS 'rc. Competition winner. This actual aircraftfeatured in Jane's World' Saiiplanes. 42:1 Glide. a Qualilyglass grider far cheaper Ihan most. Low hours. 2-mansyndicate. but one emigrating so must sell. Fullyinstrumented. radio etc. Richard Cowderoy. 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Tel058261906 (day) 0525 221494 (evenings).KESTREL 1;1. Extended rudder. full instruments including,oxygen. radio. glass fibre Iraiier in good condition. easy2-man rig. C of A till Feb 198!. £11 OOOono. Zealley. TelHitchin 2427.CANOPIESA range of sizes and shapesfrom K.13 down to Oly 2Direct makerBob Reece REMATICLowesmoor Wharf. WorcesterTel 0905 25812C.R.S.M•... in a hurry to sell or bUy a grider? Contact usand get fast and up to date details plus wide circulation.NO commission charged. £5.00 registration fee lor SEL­LERS. Telephone for details now. 06532469. Ask lor 'Mar·jorie.ASTIR CS recently rebuilt. in immaculate condition.fully instrumented. For detaiis Chiltern SailpianesLimited. 0494-445854.UiKand EUROPECESSN,A LEISUREWEARTIES (Top Quality Polyester)UK EuropeAarobal-SingleMolil:Blue. 3.15p 3.55pGreen:Sage. Gold. Grey ..Skyhawk-S.M Navy. Green. Chestnut. 2.99p 3.351>Grey ..S.M. wilh Stripe. Navy. Green. Grey 3.35p 3.70pS.M. w,thStnpes throughout. 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JANTAR Standard - Best Standard ClaS$. Fully sealed,'ull instrumentation, ·fitted wheel hook 'or winch launch.Excellent condition with 'itted traile,. Offers around£10000 0' 1/4 shares, based Aston Down. Stroud 2416Day, Gloucester 68132 Night.OLYMPIA 2. with Dart canopy. Fully instrumentad withaudio/verio. also enclosed trailer and ,adio. 9 months C 0'A. £225Oono. Graham, Stoke on Trent 502197.K-7 Recent C 0' A. Lerge canopy. Instruments. Goodcondition, ideal trainer. Excellent soare,. £3600 TelPeacehaven 4900.FOEHN M200 Serial No 20 manu'actured by Carman.Write to Association Vol A Voile Du Blanc. B.P. 1836300Le Blanc, F,ance.DART 15. Full instruments, parachute. radio, new 'ittedoxygen. trailer. Co, A Feb 1981. One owner lor 15 yearsachieving Gold and Diamonds, never broken. £37500no.Stoddart Ourham 67069 (home) Sunde,land 57123(o'fice).JANTAflI l1M. VGC. Available October with new C 0' A.Currenlly at Booker. Hull and melal t,ailer only £10900.Mike Garrod (0734-785577).K-13 privately owned trom new. excellent aluminiumt,aile" Instruments, redio, parachutes. Superb condition.£10500. Reed. Rugby 813690.MOSQUno, competition finished, unpranged, excellenttrailer £12500 (no Instruments). Martyn Wells. LongCompton 217.ALUMINiUM and Timber T,ailers. Highest specification,compelilive p,iCes. Fittings etc. Martyn Wells. Whichtord,Shipston, Warks. Long Compton 217.BUILDING you, own Irailer? Conlact me 'or all yourrequirements. Martyn Wells. Wflichlord. Shipston, Warks.Long Compton 217.JASKOLKA, Low hou~. Fully equipped with redio. para­Chute and traile,. all in top condition. £2800. Details andphoto from Ocug Carter. Tel Brighton 720265 (day) or73068O(Ev/W.E.) Will travel to demonstrate (200m ,adius)if required.J.SJt, Scorpion (See Janes Gliders page 137). Wood shipw~h glass performance. Ld 1/38 measured. Completewilh traile" instruments and parachute. £5OO00no. TelJohn Halford Oxford 68265 or Enstone 461.LS·3. Full competition oullit. including very comprehensiveminiature panel with Mk IV Speed Oireclo, andSchanz Compass, and Komel irailer. £13500. lel 0509890469.PILATUS 84. ,Excellent condition. Tinted ~enopy. Wellinstrvmented. TM6 radio, C of Ato July 81. Metal trailer£7250000. Tel W. 'Prince 028 375 220.KESTREL llm - large ruddet. instruments, fittings,traile'. Winner Westerns 80. Excellent value at£105OOono. Also K·2 - new 'ront canopy, 'inishedblue/white, Includes instruments. £2950 ono. Tel DavaRoberts, Swindon 823846 (offiCe) or Kemble 507.SKYLA"K 38. Good condition. 'ull panel. parachute,covered traile" ,igging aids and trolley. C 01 A 'rom March1980.0400000. Tel G. Eade, Guildford 31251 x 252 (day).D. Henry, Winchester 64829 (e-enings).SPfCHT Tandem strutted two-seater (similar to K·4),open trailer. C of A no instruments, sprung undercarriage,excellent condition. £6000no. D. Gardner, Barcombe(Sussex) 400232 evenings.BELLANCA CITA8RIA 150 hp. t973. 300 engine hours torun. Spare prop. Tow hook. 3 year C 0' A. Dacron covering.Newly resprayed. V.G.C. £9000 plus VAT. Bryson 024751111 or 0848 682500.TWIN ASTIR 1111. Immaculate. Full instruments. New lowline easyload trailer. Full C 01 Awith sale. £11 5OOono plusVAT. Tel 0232 654366.STANDARD CIRRUS hull. water ballast. well maintained.C 01 A lor year. £7250. Instruments negotiable. Considerexchange motor glider. 0332-57883.SKYLARK 4: lull instruments. radio and open traile,. BGANo. 17014. James Butler. 1 Beaumont Street. Emley. Hud.ders'ield, West Yo,kshire, Tel 0924 843305 or 271537.KESTREL 17. Complete with trailer, va,ious instruments.Privately owned Irom new. £8950, or will part exchangeeither way for light alrcrall. Mr. G. Haslam. 39 CherrylreeRoad, Blackpool. Tel 64965.K-6CR 11. share on Sulton Bank site. Full instruments.electric va,io. radio. barograph, parachute. new closedtrailer. Tel (0532) 585853.ASTIR 77. \'J share. Completely instrumented.Pa,achute, barograph and traile,. Situated at Lasham.£3000. Guildford (0463) 61897 (office) 76040 (home).SKYLARK 4 - Very good condition, recently ,esprayed.Complete with instruments. closed Iraile, and full year C0' A with sale. £4000. Tel (0232) 667928 (daytime).EXCHANGESEXCHANGE. Viking Fiberline 14' Z' berth luxury caravanwith awning worth £1250 'or SwallQw wilh trailer. Ceshbalance. Ring Pass more Lamphey (Dyfed) 672183 night orMil10rd Haven 5924.day.WANTEDBAROGRAPH, PARACHUU. RADIO, AUDIO, OXYGENetc wanted. Gordon, Shepherd's Bank, Keltleshulme.Whaley Bridge. Stockport. Tel Whaley Bridge 2074.P"E 1154 "SAILPLANE & GLIDER", "GLIDING", or anyea,'y related lileratu,e. Buxton (0298) 871633.SERVICESGLIDER RESPRAYS, Cellulose or synthetic. will collect,competitive pri~es, for glldar pilots by glider pilots. RingLouth, L1ncs (0507) 606995.HANG GLIDINGWELSH HANG GLIDING CENTREFlying ClubResidential CoursesAccessoriesColour Brochure from Department S.New Road, Crickhowell, South Wales. Tel0873-810019HANG GLIDINGProfessional instruction for 2, 4 or 5 daynovice courses. Intermediate and advancedInstruction.SKYSPOATS. A~rv8Y.nn)', S. We'••Booking OflIc.:8allshot (027') 7322. IOrlbrochu,ePUBLICATIONS"SOARING" - oNicial monthly journal 0' the SoaringSociety of America. Edited by Douglas Lamont. Address:Box 66071. Los Angeles. California 90066 USA. Subscriptions:$13.00 outside USA; apply to your post oNice '0' aform.SLOPE SOARING with I radio cont,ol model sailplane isa 'ascinating pastime and a typical phase of aeromodelling.Read about this and othe, leromqdelling subjects inAeromodeller Ind Redio Control Models Ind Electronics,the world'. leading magazines published monthly. Model& Allied Publications Lld.. 1~3S Bridge Street HemelHempstead. 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Write NZ Gliding Kiwi, Private Bag.Tauranga..New Zealend. £4.00 Sterling 'or yea"s sut>scription(inclusive 01 postage).BGA MAIL ORDERWhere else would you get a good quaHty T-shirt bearing the message GLIDER PILOTS DO ITQUIETLY for only £2.701 Or even a beany hat with an exclusive glider design on it for only£1.401 and have you seen the brand new metal car badges with the BGA motif in blue andwhite behind a perspex shielding for £4.201 Or have you read ONCE UPON A THERMAL, thathumorous gliding classic by Richard Wolters, available in hardback for £:3.901 And whatabout the new rear-window stickers procfaiming GLIDER PILOTS STAY UP LONGER for only35p each?Order these items fromBRITISH GLIDING ASSOCIATIONSALES DEPT., fREEPOST, LEICESTER LE 1 7ZBor ask us to send you our complete sales list Telephone 0533 5 1051August/September 1980207

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TheCornkshGlidingand FlyingClubTrevellas Airfield, PerranporthCorflwall. Tel. Perranporth 2124Gliding courses ,in modern fleetfrom May - B.G.A. furly-ratedinstructors - fine soaring ­lovely coastal airfield - ideallor a diffe,rent famHy holiday.Details with pleasure from:The Course SecretaryTremearne, Breage, HelstonCornwallTel: Helston 62294II ,4 or5.dayglidingltofidaY:IRidge Sit6 with winchenda6rqtovylaunchtl:l.from£84. (J(). £155. 00.(A" inclusive of professional instruction.accommodation. meals and VA T,JVisiting gliders welcomeKlnr GIrIDIIIG C&aBPlease ring Chaffock (023 374) 274 or307Or write to The Secr6tary, Kent Gliding ClubChaffock, Nr. Ashford. K.ent.The Best Club Fleet in the CountryThe Best instruction in the CountryWHERE?WYCOMBE GLIDINGSCHOOL. BOOKERAdvanced Courses for early solo pilots and·Bronze 'C' Pilots. Task weeks for CrossCountry Pilots. Ab-initio Courses. Earlyconversion to glass fibre.If any uf this appeals to you.then call andsee us. or write to The Secretary.Wycombe Gliding School,' Wycombe AirPark. Booker. High Wycombe, Bucks. orPhone ttigh Wycombe 29263• The UK's top soaringsite- !'Iying 364 days a year with 6 tugs and 4lowcars;- Free of airspace restrictions;- The UK 801 km record flown from.Lasham;*The UK's besttraining centre- Elementary and advanced residentialcourses 50 weeks a year;- Full time' professional instructorsalways available;- Four two-seaters (K13's);- One Super-Falke;• The finest clubamenitiesComfortable accommOdation, modernclubhouse with 7 day a week canteen andbat, first class caravan and campingsite.The AItQn Sports Centre is only 4 milesaway' with SWimming, squash, tennis,!badminton, table tennis etc.- Over 75,OOOkm flown from here in 1979 - Janus on 'orderPrivate owners are welcome. or join Surrey and Hants and fly the Club's fleet; 1 Kestrel 19, 1 Mosquito, 3 Astir CS's, 1 Sport Vega.1 K6E. 5 K8's. Trailers for all aircraft. Land'rover tor retrieves.DEREK DAVIS, Lasham Gliding Society, Lasham Airfield,. Nr. ALTON, Hants.Tel: Herriard (025683) 270SOAR YORKSHIREeSOARRIDGETwelve miles in suitable conditionse SOAR THERMALSClub record is 524km. in 15 metre Standard Class glidereSOAR WAVEClub absolute recotd is 30,200 feet on 16.9.79.Club record gain Is 29,500 feet an 16.6.76Visit us and stay in our fully IlIcensed residenHal clubhouse, This is idea1'lysituated on the South Wes.t corner 01 the North Yorkshire National Park insuperb surroundings with views· of up to 50 miles. Full catering available Inseason. Self catering at other times. .Courses-April to OctoberVisitors always welcomeWe shall be delighted to see youYORKSHIRE GLIDING CLUBSUTTON BANK, THIRSKTel: 08456 (Sutlon) 237

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