Volume 16 No 1 Feb 1965.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

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You'll never get thisoff the groundIt is a Rubery Owen trailer axle. Haul itround tight corners, drag rt over bumpy roads'-the wheels stay firmly on the ground. Thisis independent suspension by torsion bars atits best.This axle has more to offer. Plenty of'braking power-discs OD the 25 cwt. size,shock absorbers if you want them, and the newRubery Owen compensated linkage-~-smaller,.lighter and trouble free.Specify Rubery OWe11 axles for yoUT glider trailer.RUBERY OWEN & co. LTD. Trailer Equipment Dept.,p.a. Box 10, Darlaston, Wednesbury, Staffs. Telephone·:James Bridge 3131.14
TESTING A SOVIET DISCOPLANEBy V. IVANOVPEAKING of sailplanes. one alwaysS pictures a slender craft with long,narrow wings resembling a bird. Theobject that I was to start testing was farfrom any of these usual conceptions.Climbing into the cabin of this unusualsailplane, I recalled the storiesabout "flying saucers", mysterious intrudersfrom strange planets soaringabove the Earth at colossal speeds. Severalyears ago I had already piloted asailplane with a disc-shaped wing. TheDiscoplane-l-as the craft was thencalled--eonfirmed that a "flying saucer"was not just fiction. The scientific theory,to which M. V. Su~hanov has devotedalmost 30 years of his life, insists thatthe circle is a shape that has equal rightswith. and in some aspects is even superiorto, the delta-wing which we areused to see on supersonic aircraft.Imagine a very large bicycle wheel almostfive m.etres in diameter and coveredwith canvas. Frcm its central hub tothe outer rim (calJed the circleron) thererun thousands of spokes made of pianowire. This simple and original constructionhas proved to be light-weight androbust. One side of the disc houses thepilot's cabin. Its nose, which resembles arocket head. imparts a streamlined formto the sailplane. There is another disc inthe tail part: a similar bicycle wheel butof a smaller diameter. This is the direc-IS
Page 1 and 2: SA LP A&GLIDIGFebruary - March 1965
Page 3 and 4: SAILPLANE& GLIDINGOFFICIAL ORGAN OF
Page 5 and 6: 1965 WORLD G,LIDINGCHAMPIONSHIPSHE
Page 7 and 8: FRED SLINGSBY'S RETIREMENTANY are t
Page 9 and 10: D-34(o)D·36Polyt 3Kria7
Page 11 and 12: dead into sun, and the haze made VI
Page 13 and 14: its normal position lies very near
Page 15: well that you should understand how
Page 19 and 20: cursed. The designer looked despond
Page 21 and 22: SECOND NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPSHOO
Page 23 and 24: •Official rest day.three pilots a
Page 25 and 26: 1965 COURSES AT LASHAMHE 196'5 cour
Page 27 and 28: LEE WAVE uGEN" FOR AEROPLANE PILOTS
Page 29 and 30: of the Sheffield gale. The other is
Page 31 and 32: IT wasn't just having to get used t
Page 33 and 34: change, my man," I sa.id grandly, a
Page 35 and 36: outes. It's all a snare and a delus
Page 37 and 38: electrical horizons 'have complete
Page 39 and 40: Finally, the turn-and-slip indicato
Page 41 and 42: 1964 KRONFELD ART EXHIBITION AND196
Page 43 and 44: Loi61U ;nOrder Pi/or Points 1964 Or
Page 45 and 46: RHODESIA'S FIRST 500 KILOMETERSBy E
Page 47 and 48: 2-3~ en154.2'-'5-0 IDID6 0 en~c7
Page 49 and 50: JIy30-40506"0 70 8"0 9"0I I I I, eq
Page 51 and 52: BRITISH GLIDING ASSOCIATION NEWSCHI
Page 53 and 54: wings ar~ lewel. If you can do this
Page 55 and 56: T" T I G" I. 1.111 Y 11 74'0THEKRON
Page 57 and 58: as the squall struck us, about half
Page 59 and 60: about 3,000 feet, at which altitude
Page 61 and 62: TRUE FLIGHT-A FABLEBy M. BIRDOOKING
Page 63 and 64: iBOOK REVIEW•Great Flights and Ai
Page 65 and 66: will go on into the foreseeable fut
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I feel that the home-made winch wil
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FOR SALE (contd.)T.3IB, C. of A. fr
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BLACKPOOL AND FYLDEP"e.~enratioll o
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which we had from the Shaw Slingsby
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able piece ef Club equipment was bu
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And still he wasn't satisfied, this
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As usual, Lasham continues to opera
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to his usual standard. The surprise
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Margate before setting off in Sky.)
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CHEVIOTS (Acklington)SINCE our last
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a gliding record. He made his first
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The Boomerang.from a light-weight a
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The Club's order for a Ka-6 waschan
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Lindner, of Teek, with 2,434.2. - A
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A Gliding Holiday io Kentwith the K
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