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

Harry Keeble, our Hon. Sec., at theClub.Peter and Honor Grime, with daughterElaine, are leaving us for the wilds ofWales. They take with them our bestwishes and hopes for the future.D.ANOG.DUMFRIES AND DISTRICfALTHOUGH 1964 was disappointingin some respects we had some goodflying and made progress generally. Thenumber of launches at about 1,400 wasslightly less than the previous year. butthe flying time increased by about 20hours, due to the great improvemevt insolo flying and soaring time. Most of theincreased soaring time was due tj thearrival of an Olympia 460 acquired bythe former Prefect syndicate whosemachine was sold to the Club.The 460 has proved very suitable forour conditions and has regularly done 20minutes from a normal winch launchbeatingthe Skylark 2 hands down. Ourfirst Silver C cross-country was gainedby Alf Winter with a flight to CrosbyAirport, Carlisle, and there have beenseveral local flights of over an hour. Wehave gained this year six A and B's,nine C's and two Silver C legs.As a result of making a great effort toget out of the usual financial wood wehave unfortunately sustained a disastrousloss on one function. This has madefurther fund-raising essential and putpaid temporarily to some of our moreambitious ideas. It has also meant takinga realistic look at our costs and subsand if this results in more efficient runningit wirt be a good thing.We have at present a good many keenmembers from all over the south of Scotlandand Cumberlaod and are loakingforward to a very busy year.EAST MIDLANDS(Leicester)IG.J.K.N spile of our troubles, including theloss of our Club Tiger. last year wasan extremely successful. one for glidingat Rearsby. There were the foHowingcertificate gains: 9 A and B; I I Cs; 2Silver Heights; 5 Silver Distances; 6Silver Durations; 3 Complete Silver Cs;I Gold Distance; 2 Gold Heights; IComplete Gold and one Diamond Goal68(subject to confirmation). 1,850 mileswere flown from the Club site and approximately1,000 miles from other sites.Chris Simpson started 1964 off verywell indeed with a very-early-in-the-yearblue thermal flight to Devon (nearlyCornwall) in the Skylark 4.Mick Alien gave us a real surprise atthe very end of last year's soaring seasonby finding the only patch of up of theday under ,a grey, solitary cumulus andstaying with it for half an hour to gainhis C...At the end of November all our syndicateaircraft were rigged and displayedin Leicester city centre. This event wasin support of the Lord Mayor's JohnKennedy Memorial Appeal Fund. Clubmembers-including Chairman and C.F.l.-collected the magnificent sum of£98 10s.Throughout 1964 the clubhouse hasbeen given a series of gentle face-liftsby many willing hands. Special thanksgo to Ivy Moseley for doing such agrand job, with her team of helpers,cooking and tea-mashing in the kitchen.Thanks, too, from everyone to DoeCa~eron, our hard-working and enthusiasttctug-master. Doe really loves histigers!Finally, three cheers go to Emie Smartfor making us our mobile ControlTower, Office. Cash desk. Known colloquiallyas the Spaceship. this invalu-