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