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

THIS GLIDINGWHAT has happened to the Press? Afterall these years of cluelessness, has itsuddenly dawned on them all what thisgliding is really about? Since our last issuethey have perpetrated nothing worthy ofinclusion in this column. Not one ambulance,not onenre brigade, has rushed up toan "aircraft crashing in flames" after wmesailplane has made a normal landing in afield. So, to fill the gap, here are somechoice pieces from the club news in thepre-war SAILPLANE & GLIOER."One (If ~ur instructors was asked anumber of questions by a sincerely interestedbystander who finally observed: 'Isuppose, when you turn down-wind, yourcontrols are all reversed then?' "-YorkshireClub."Circuit of the Kirby Kite, piloted byKaye, whose head only just appears out ofthe CDCkpit. Old lady, seeiI\g him for thefirst time as he comes ill to land, remarks:'Oh look, George, there's someone init!"'­Derbyshire & Lancashir,. Club."Small daughter, aged three, helpingenthusiastic glider pilot to carry his lunchto the car: 'Shall I carry the thermal flasks,Daddy?' "-London Club."Member of the public, to companion:'I was out here on Wednesday and there wasone glider up in the air for nearly half anhour trying to get down and couldn't; thenanother glider went up and showed it theway down.' "-London Club."An old lady took up a very prominentposition on the site, one Sunday afternoon;to watch our activities. On being info.nnedthat it was rather dangerous on thatparticular spot, she replied: 'Oh, that isquite all right, I'm sitting on a newspaper.' "-Derbyshire &: Lancashire Club."One of our members was tackled by anacquaintance who had read, in a newspaper,of a cross-country flight of forty miles.Like this:-'Did you say he was launchedby catapult ...?' 'Yes.' '... and he wentforty miles?' ·Yes.' 'Gosh! What acatapult!'" - Yor}.:shire Club.How to get "SAILPLANE AND GLIDING" AUSTRALIA: Stockists: Hearn's Hobbies, 367, Flinders Street, , ~< Melbourne. }, ~ NEW ZEALAND F. M. Dunn, N. Z. Gliding Association, Box 2239, >Christchureh. SOUTH AFRICA: The Aero Club of South Africa, P.O. Box 2312, }, Maritime House, Loveday Street, Johannesburg., U.S.A., CANADA & Please apply direct to British Gliding AssQCiation.> oTlIER COUNTRIES: Single copies 2{8d. or 16s. annually. (50 cents or, $3.00 annually).> SCANDINAVIA: Hans ElIerstrom, Gronalundsgatan 9B, Malmo, S.Y.,> ~~ < >Green Leather Cloth Binder, taking 12 issues (2 years): 15s. post free from B.G.A.