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

Margate before setting off in Sky.) Unfortunatelyat 2,000 ft. three miles outto sea he funked crossing CarmarthenBay and landed on the beach outside hishome at Tenby. It then became a racebetween the trailer and the slave gangof holidaymakers pulling the Sky, withoutwheels, away frem the advancingtide over a mile across the beach to thesafety of the dunes.Cliff soaring goes on whenever theopportunity arises and once again theSky and Skylark completed five hourssimultaneously over Tenby in September.a satisfying reward for our hard workingSecretary, Arthur Squibbs, and a SilverC completion for IS-year-old DickyBaldwin.Chairman, David George, and instructors.Uoyd Edwacds and Gil Phillips,revisited Fayence in the South of Francethis October, this time with wives. Dcspitea 20,000 ft. Mistral wav,e for twodays, they prefer to draw a veil overthe tribulations -of French gliding, andprefer to remember the night clubs ofCannes. They wish to acknowledge theunlimited hospitality of Mr. and Mrs.F. S. Coote at Fayence.The Club is now concentrating on theorganisation for its 1965 HolidayCourses and look forward to the pleasureof meeting and satisfying all whovisit us in the future.T.G.P.WORCESTERSHIREWE have now reached the time ofyear when we can look back tosee if our hopes and aspirations of earlyspring have been realised.A total of 1,450 launches, some 115hours, may not look very impressive tolonger established clubs, but on thewhole we feel a certain amount ofcautious satisfaction. Flying started fromour new site at Bickmarsh in mid-Mayand by the end of November six memobers had obtained A and B certificatesin the T·31's and six C frights had beeDmade by the Tutor pilots.These flights in tbe Tutor from acompletely flat site are especially cncouragingand give cause for optimismfor the day whcn we have more advancedaircraft.We are taking a long, hard look atour ground equipment and it appearsthat we are assured of plenty to do duringthe winter. One pair of T-3l wingsis being fitted with spoilers which, it ishoped, will reduce the "long slog back"and thereby put up the launch rate.By the time these notes appear thewh:te pegs in the ground near the hangarshould have been replaced by the clubhousewhich a member has "obtained".People have even been heard talking ofbars and other sophisticated comforts.R.C.S.The Worcestershire Club's T-31 takes off on yet ,(mother circuit.77