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

BLACKPOOL AND FYLDEP"e.~enratioll of Certificates: I. to r.. Terry Hogben. A. N. Other. Mr. Liver. JaneMurdoch, Malcolm Eaves, Len Clarksoll, Derek Raymond. Richard Aldolls.CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITYTHE first of the two unexpected experiencesof 1964 we seem to haveshared with most other clubs: a splendidlate summer aDd autumn. The secondone we shared with few: a surge ofsuccess at the Regicnals.Cambridge pilots took part in fourregional contests. John Firth won theDunstable meeting in a Skylark 3F. andColin Pennycuick the Royal NavalG.S.A.'s contest at Dunkeswell in a Ka-6.In the Western Regionals, John Brennerand Siegfrid Neumann came 2nd in theClub's Olympia 2, and in the NorthernChampionships Lionel Alexander andGeorge Whitfield gained 5th place inthe Olympia 460.Our mo~t successful pilot, of course,was Jobn Firth. Apart from winning thefirst contest in which he took part, hecompleted his Gold C with a 19()-miledog leg from Cambridge to Moreton viaNorwich. For futl measure he proceededto bag tbe V.I(. 'ZOO-km. Triangle SpeedRecord on 20th AugustThe larger part of our mileage in 1964was flown in August and September. Amemorable day was nnd August whenseven sailplanes starting from Cambridgecovered a total of 715 miles. One of theseven pilots was Simon Redman whocompleted a 152-mile out-and-return tf'Witney in his Skylark 4.At the end of September GerardDowning flew tbe Swallow to Woodbridgeand thereby gained his Silver Cdistance. The last cross-country of theyear was flown on 10th October, a 52­mile triangle. Local soaring at Cambr,idgecontinued until 7th Novemberwhen R,ichard Fortescue reached 5,000 ft.in cloud, flying the Olympia 2.65