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

Jams us from Imperial College G.c.Hugh was swiftly elevated to the instructingbranch further improving ourconsiderable strength.A second Olympia syndicate hasformed with Messrs. Wnght, Harvey,Aranyos aod Birch taking over the redand white 2B formerly the property ofthe first syndicate. This brings the totalnumber of gliders on the site to five andwith two winches, the tug and threevehicles, not to speak of trailers and twolarge down huts, we a,re 'actually havingto plan the hangar packing these days.A. W. H. L. W.SWINDONTHE AG.M. has just taken place andthe committee for 1965 is to besmall and streamlined. The followinghave been elected as officers: Chairman,L Colquhoun; Secretary, G. Turner;Treasurer, R. Clark: Groflnd Engineer,D. Rawling; Social Secretary, J. Young;Aircraft Engineer, R. Maxfield.A spe,cia] vote of thanks goes togetherwith our grateful appreciation to ourpast Secretary, Miss B. Sanders. She hasdone us proud since we started, and hasbeen our Secretary for five years. Wewish her well, and hope to see more ofher on the field in '65.It is hoped that we shall soon have theuse of a new Blanik which should behere by January. One of our new members,Chris Day, has acquired one ofthese machines and is allowing the Clubto use it. as an advanced trainer. Thetotal fleet for 1965 will now consist ofa T-21, Swallow, Olympia, Blanik, Skylark4 and a Grunau.I now end by introducing PeterClifford who will be your scribe for thecoming year.D.E.S.WEST WALESTHE Capstan has established itselffirmly in the Club fleet and now thatthe icy winds of winter have returned itis rather sad to see the T-21 left in thehangar.However. the two hours' 6ight it maderecently at 1,500 ft. over the 200 ft.Broadhaven cliffs in a 20 knot westerly.is an indication of its superiority and theincreased utilisation in tugging we expectthis winter.Its value for cross-country familiarisationwas demonstrated last spring when ittagged on behind the Auster when itwent to Staverton for quarterly over,haul. The 5 hour return trip up the coastand back through the valleys with cloudbase at 1,000 ft. was invaluable for aerotowingand map reading practice as wellas in field selection. ]t is encouraging tofind that there are so many reasonablefields available in the Welsh mountains.All credit goes to Bill Shepherd whomade our most notable flight this summerin taking the Skylark over 100 milesnearly to Hereford and gained our firstSilver C.We must not forget the retrieve crewweo, with absolute faith in their C.F.I.,went 70 miles up the road before telephoningback. (The C.FJ. had declared76Streeting of clouds and gliders at West Wales:photo by Squibbs Studios.