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

Flying suits or bridalveils-arrything goes forgliding! In this pictureMr. and Mrs. GerryHarrison are about to belaunched irtto married lifein the Coventry Club'sT21. (We hope shereme.mbered 10 strapherselfin).COVENTRYOURS up until Easter we€:kend total 190H from 1,600 launches. On 31st March,we did 100 launches for the first time thisyear although 95 had ~n reached onseveral previous occasions. In the last twomonths Littlejohn, Bark, Farren, S. Haynes,Findon and Mary Neal have gone solo.The recent warm weather gained us a newbatch of C pilots, namely Watts, Dobson,H. Greenway, Tyler, Joan Cunninghafn.A. Cunningham and R. Brown.Sheila Gregg has now added a Silverheight to the ~ hour leg she has alreadyattained, thus furthering the honour of theGregg family. Dr. Gregg, the club's chairman,seems to have taken his dutiesseriously by supplying us with four successfulpilots, himself, daughters Sheila andHeather and son Richard, now taking pilottraining with the R.A.F. in Canada.Richard sends us the interesting news thaton one flight in a Havard, he was intriguedby a superb looking lenticular cloud. Hewas unable to resist the temptation to findout if it worked and positioned himselfbelow the windward side with powersettings corresponding to 300 feet perminute descent. Sure enough the lift tookhim from 8,000 feet to 17,000 feet, at whichheight be broke off the climb for personalreasons. Oh, for a Skylack!Speaking of Skylarks, we had a visit froma Dunstable pilot who landed al Bagintonon 20th April and was later acro-towedhome. Perhaps he was "returning thecompliment" after Mike' 'Hunt's trip fromBaginton to Dunstable in an Olympia onthe previous day.Also on the 20th, Vie Carr did an out andreturn to Leicester, reaching 9,800 feet onthe way. He says that's as near Gold heightas he wants to be without getting it.The Club Olympia was broken on across-country flight on 13th April arid thefollowing weekend the T21 was also putout of action for Easter.The Tutors have had several good soaringflights recently to. between 4,000 and 5,000ft., one of which took Peter Berthelsencross-country to Edgehill, a distance of 21miles on )3th April.Other cross-countries this year are VieCarr, travelling 28 miles and R. Tarver 25miles both on 6th April, in Olympias. On7th April, D. Cunningham reached 27 milesand on 13th April, G. Harrison reached 25miles also in Olympias.The club certainly seems to have springfever or tax rebatitis because we have hadthree more marriages lately. Bob Comptonto Jean Kitley, John Graham to GloriaNaysmith and Gerry Harrison to CathyLiquorish. Our best wishes to them all.Cathy and Gerry were foolish enough tohave their reception at an hotel near theaerodrome. 1P.ey paid the forfl;;it of a tripin the 1'21 in fu11 regalia.B.H.T.-1~-