Volume 8 No 3 Jun 1957.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

Mal Williams (standing) and Frank Hudson,of New South Wales Gliding Association,who ran the contest.However, an Olympia of distinctly orangehue arrived as did also Ted Pascoe's selfdesignedan'd built "Spruce Goose." .Thisvery neat tiltle 30 .ft. ~panner weighedappreciably less than Its ptlot.. .New South Wales was, rather disappomtinglyonly represented by a Grunau, andthe R.A.N. Gliding Association producedthe: LO 150 and a hastily modifie:d T31 b torceplace their Schneider ES 56 which hadspun in a week earlier:There is no flying or gliding club at, ornear Tocumwal; but Bill Iggulden,presi'dent of the Glidin.g Federation. ofAustralia had, with hIS ever bubblmgoptimism'and tact, convinced the localChamber of Commerce that the Championshipswould put Tocumwal on The Map,and further he had encouraged the localR.A.AF. Maintenance Unit to take a keeninterest. As a result the pre-organisationwas generally good, an excellent ca!1teenwas provided .and ID mned by the ladles ofthe Golf Club, and most pilQts arrived w,iththeir ain;:raft in time for the openIngceremony. Incidentally, the open!ngpractice day turned on the best soaTlngweather of the whole meeting.Theday·to·day·organisation was handledquite remarkably well by two members ofthe N.S.W. Gliding Association, FrankHudson and Mal Williams, to whom thehighest praise is due.The only I'eal shortcoming was t~elaunching organisation which the offiCIalorganisers, the N.S.W.G.A, had beenunable to provide. It tbus fell to theVictorian Motorless Flight Group toprovide the winching; this they did mostwillingly, but their winches are old andthere· were unfortultate delays.The Weathet'Except 00 one day the inversion sat firmlyon us and our activities, at. times as low as2,500 fl., though usu~ny lifting towards5,000 ft. by late afternoon.The R.A.N. Gliding Association hadbrought an Auster, and t~is, (wit~ itsR.A.A.F. pilot) wa·s pI'e~ mto serYIce. todo a regular mornirtg met. flIght from .whlchDerek Reid (known to many at Redhl!l andLasham) was able to produce very goodforecasts at briefing each day.The FlyingThe tasks for the day were announced bythe organisers' at the morning briefings;they tended to get. discussed--;-and som~timesaltered-dunng the bTlefingl thiSmight seem somewhat unru'ly but in fact wasprobably as goo.d a; soluti?n as any, consideringthe relative mexpenence of man>: ofthe competitors, and of the task-settmgcommittee.I will not go through each day in ~tail...,...I don't have the. necessary information, any-146-way. The first day, 28th December.' was.aface to Narrandera (\'OO odd rrules) Inwhic.h only "Ouo" Brand managed tocomplete the course, though several othersgot within a few miles. ~he s~ond day wasa race round a 4.5-nule tnangle; greatdifficulty was experienced getting away andthe LO· 'ISO was the only aircraft to completethe course or in f.act to score anymarks at all. At the next morning briefingthe other pilots very sportingly voted .togive me 100 points for tMc daY whileDQ you wish to mar great ~"-distances in 1957? . )".:::JTh." ... iec:ommend out LO-1S0'. You fly "singIhe adjustable (laps, quite slow in thumals with 68km/hand also very faSI wilh 110kmfh end more ar • 'Hr.,good l/O·'-.lioWOLF ltlRTH d.ll1.b.H..NakrniT.cl.Wed Germany